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Last Wednesday I attended E-assessment: making it happen – a one day conference hosted by The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) at the University of Bradford.  It was a welcome opportunity to meet others in Higher Education who are at various stages of practice in online assessment.
The conference was very much focussed on [...]

This isn’t a completely new publication, it was published in early July this year, however it was brought to my mind again recently. Earlier this year JISC published an updated version of their "Effective Practice with e-Learning" guide which was published in 2004. The guide is now called "Effective Practice in a Digital Age". [...]

The last few years have seen an increase in both the number of us using the VLE here at Queen Mary, and the breadth of activities we’re using it for. We’ve responded to both good and bad changes in the products and now the majority of departments are making extensive use of our current [...]

I mentioned Screencast in a recent post about another of Techsmith’s offerings; Jing. Screencast is a free service with 2GB of storage and the same in bandwidth usage p/m. Like many online services there is an option to upgrade to a Pro account which greatly increases these allowances. But, at least to start with, you’ll [...]

“The Lectures Are Recorded, So Why Go to Class?” By Jeffrey Young is posted on the Chronicle of Higher Education. The post can be found here: http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i36/36a00103.htm
With the increasing use of lecture capture and the recording of guest seminars here in QMUL it’s a question that we get asked more and more as well.
Of the [...]