Webinars on Digital Enhanced Learning @LSBU.

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These webinars will be of interest to all teaching staff at LSBU. Each webinar will consist of presentation that will last between 20 and 30 minutes and then there will short time for questions by the participants.

The webinars take place on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00 pm.

The following links will take you to ‘My Workplace’ where you can book a webinar:

What’s new in Moodle.

This webinar highlights the new features and functionality of the upgraded Moodle platform. It covers the basic of the new user interface and will give an overview of the new feature.

23.1.19   https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=what’s%20new%20in%20Moodle;d=;ed=;a=T/7266634j5T/event/8803184oll

13.2.19  https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=what’s%20new%20in%20Moodle;d=;ed=;a=T/7266634j5T/event/3876424psp

Getting Moodle ready for next semester – Moodle Setup.

Make an early start on preparing your module for the new semester. We will guide you through the process of ‘copying’ over content into the new semester module and making sure your Moodle module achieves the DEL Baseline.

17.4.19  https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=Getting%20Moodle%20ready%20for%20next%20semester;d=;ed=;a=T/5505864j5T/event/2267434psp

 

5.6.19   https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=Getting%20Moodle%20ready%20for%20next%20semester;d=;ed=;a=T/5505864j5T/event/7662174psp

Anonymous Marking in Moodle.

Anonymous marking in Moodle allows you to grade student’s work without seeing any identifiable student information. This webinar will show you how to set up the anonymous marking settings in Moodle and highlight some of the common issues related to this type of marking.

17.1.19  https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=anonymous%20marking;d=;ed=;a=T/4123334j5T

Check your assignments are ready for submission.

Are you sure that you have the correct settings when you set up your assignment in Moodle? This webinar will give a short demonstration of the recommended settings to use for both Moodle and Turnitin.

20.3.19  https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=check%20your%20assignments;d=;ed=;a=T/8824814j5T/event/1569414psp

Approaches to providing electronic feedback.

The main aim of this webinar is to look at two tools in Moodle that can improve the consistency and reliability of your assignment feedback, Rubrics and Marking Guides. The webinar will show you how to set them up and then use them to give improved feedback to your students.

27.2.19 https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=Approaches%20to%20providing;d=;ed=;a=T/9324554j5T/event/4742554psp

3.4.19  https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=Approaches%20to%20providing;d=;ed=;a=T/9324554j5T/event/9426894psp

Moodle Site Health Check (Moodle self-audit and reporting).

Do you know what information or content you need to put into your Moodle module? This webinar will introduce you to LSBU’s Digital Enhanced Learning (DEL) Baseline and show you how to self-audit your own modules in Moodle.

30.1.19   https://myworkplace.lsbu.ac.uk/tlive_ess/ess/index.html#/summary/careerdev/activity;s=moodle%20site;d=;ed=;a=T/3860454j7J

For further details or if you have any further questions or would like to suggest another topic please contact Chris Rowell rowellc@lsbu.ac.uk

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Anonymous marking in Moodle

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Webinar: Moodle site health check

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Social Media in Higher Education conference #SocMedHE18

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Slides for my presentation at #SocMedHE18:

 

Moodle webinars 2019 @lsbu

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New flyer for next semester:

Getting Moodle ready for next semester @lsbu

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Social Media in HE – book update

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I was really pleased to get an email from Open Book Publishers (OBP) yesterday which started with this opening sentence:

“Dear Chris,

I’m delighted to let you know that I received a positive report (with suggestions for revision) from our first referee and that we decided to accept your manuscript for publication pending some changes.”

So after a year’s work on the book the publishers have given me confirmation that it will be published. It wasn’t my original intention to go with an official publisher when I first embarked on this project. When I first started I intended to self publish the book, simply as a pdf or with an epublisher but the book has almost taken on a life of its own. I received more chapters than I expected and also the range of topics enabled me to group them by themes and develop a coherent whole to the book.

There is still more work for me to do as the editor. OBP had the manuscript peer-reviewed and they have many suggestions for improvements. These are mainly to do with consistency and clarity but they should be done fairly quickly. I’m hoping I can do these amendments by the end of this semester. Also Professor Lesley Gourlay (UCL Institute of Education) has agreed to write a Preface for the book which a little added bonus that should bring a wider audience to the book.

Why go with a publisher? The main reason I looked at the more ‘official’ route of going with a publisher was because of their distribution networks. If I’d done the distribution through my own personal learning network I would not have had the impact of a recognised publisher. Also, at he time I wasnt aware that open access publishers even existed! After a little bit of research I found OBP and was really pleased with what they are offering. According to their website, ‘Open Book Publishers, founded in 2008, is already the biggest open access academic publisher of monographs in the UK and amongst the leaders in the English-speaking world’, it has a Platinum (i.e. without any charges to authors, or payment of fees or charges to readers and third parties) Open Access publishing model. www.openbookpublishers.co Twitter @OpenBookPublish http://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/

At the start of this project I didn’t really appreciate just how long it would take to get the book published and it’s still not done yet! Having mainly published on blogs and in journal articles I didn’t fully appreciate the whole review process of editing a book – but I do now. Fingers crossed we will have a published book at the start of next year:)

JSIC (V)LE Challenge

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Fed up with Moodle, Blackboard or Canvas and think you could do better? If so, JISC have set up a challenge for you to design a future VLE. Things have changed since the early days of the first VLE’s, such as AI, VR, more inclusive and accessible  learning or even wearable technologies. What would the learning technology environment of the future look like without the constraints of a computer, phone ot tablet screen? This is such a good idea!

Here’s a video explaining the brief:

 

And there are prizes!!!!

£1000 for the best idea from the shortlist
Two runners-up prizes of £250
All short-listed ideas will be showcased on JISC’s edtech blog and the winning ideas will be showcased at Digifest 2019.

Submit your idea here

 

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#FutureWars: The Impact of New Technologies conference

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On Saturday I went to CND’s conference on ‘Future Wars: The Impact of New Technologies’. Its aim was to discuss the impact of new technologies on future wars, and the new challenges we’ll face as a result. I didn’t take any detailed notes but if you’re interested check out the links below.

10.00 Welcome: Dave Webb, Chair CND
10.10 OPENING PLENARY: The shape of things to come
Chair: Carol Turner, Ted Seay, Stuart Parkinson, Steven Rose
Q&A part I, Arielle Denis, Jean Lambert MEP, Q&A part II

Here’s a link to a really useful article on defence funding in universities:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/31/defence-contractors-british-universities-funding

12.00 PLENARY: Militarisation of space
Chair: Cath Bann, Bruce Gagnon, Patrice Salzenstein, Q&A

About the speakers.

If you want to know more check out:

CND Facebook

CND website

#FutureWars