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Our Active Blogs

Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Blackboard SaaS Update 2

    • At the end of last month, we blogged about getting our hands on a test Blackboard SaaS environment. This month we’ve started the process of testing the environment and finding out the differences and similarities between SaaS and our current version of Blackboard. A lot of the work this month is being done by our Blackboard ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – April 2019

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Ebrill 2019

  • Mini Conference: Inclusive Education, Wednesday 10th April, 1pm

    • Cynhadledd Fer Mini Conference On Wednesday 10th April, at 2pm, the E-learning Group will be hosting this year’s Academy Mini Conference. The Mini Conference is a smaller version of our Annual Learning and Teaching Conference which allows us to pull together a series of presentations and workshops around a particular learning and teaching topic. This year ...more

  • Academy Forum: Instilling Self-Regulation in Learners

    • The E-learning Group host several Academy Forums across the academic year. The aim of the Academy Forums is to bring together members from across the University to discuss a matter related to Learning and Teaching. Our last Academy Forum focused on Instilling Self-Regulation in Learners. This topic was suggested following last year’s Annual Learning and ...more

  • Dr Rob Grieve – Mini Conference Presentation

    • The E-learning Group are hosting a mini conference on Inclusive Education on Wednesday 10th April at 1pm in E3, E-learning Training Room, Aber Academy. In addition to our previous blogpost announcing the line-up for the mini conference, we’re also pleased to announce that Dr Rob Grieve will be giving a recorded presentation entitled Stand Up ...more

  • Using Virtual Reality (VR) in Mental Health

    • Although individuals using VR are conscious of their experience not being real, the physical and psychological responses induced by it are similar to those experienced in real life scenarios. Using VR in mental health treatment opens up possibilities of working through responses to problematic stimulus without having to face them in a real life. There is ...more

  • Online polling services and privacy issues

    • If you’ve already read part one of this series, you’ll know how useful online polling services are to engaging students actively in the classroom (if you haven’t – take a look). As well as selecting a tool to suit your teaching and learning activity, you also need to take a look at the Privacy Policy of ...more

  • Can I use polling software for Distance Learners?

    • Following the post on using polling software for teaching we received a query about the feasibility of using polling software such as PollEverywhere or Mentimeter for Distance Learners’ modules. Please find below the results of our testing and research. Mentimeter As every presentation has a different code to access the poll, you can vote even when the ...more

  • Call for Proposals: Learning and Teaching Conference 2019

    • We are now inviting proposals for the 7th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Monday 8th July – Wednesday 10th July 2019. Submit and view the call for proposals here. This year's conference theme, Learning from Excellence: Innovate, Collaborate, Participate!, aims to reflect the commitment that AU staff have to enhance the student learning experience. The four main strands of ...more

  • Blackboard SaaS update 1

    • Many of you will have seen the announcement that AU is moving to the cloud-hosted, Blackboard SaaS platform. We plan to provide a monthly update on the progress of the project via the E-learning blog and this is our first update. SaaS stands for Software as a Service, and there are advantages of moving to using ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter - March 2019

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mawrth 2019

  • Using Lecture Capture Effectively: Tips for staff and students

    • In this blogpost we will be looking at how we can use lecture capture more effectively to enhance learning and knowledge retention. We will build on our previous blogpost Making use of the captioning and quiz function in Panopto. The tips and discussion below are based on a paper being published this year by psychologists from Glasgow, ...more

  • Iris De Freitas refurbishment focus group 12/02/2019

    • A focus group has been held on the planned refurbishment of the Iris De Freitas room. Six participants joined staff and the architects who are working on the refurbishment to talk through the current plans. The focus group session helped to gather student feedback along with surveys and the post-it note board in the Iris ...more

  • Iris De Freitas Refurbishment

    • A photo of the Iris De Freitas Room. The Iris De Freitas room in the Hugh Owen Library will be closed for refurbishment from the 3rd of June. We expect to re-open the space on the 4th November 2019. During the planning process we asked the users of the room to give us their suggestions for ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Chwefror 2019

  • OA Repository Newsletter – February 2019

  • OA Repository Newsletter - January 2019

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber - Ionawr 2019