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  • Using Skype for Business for Learning and Teaching Activities

    • The E-learning Group have been supporting colleagues in the Education Department to use Skype for Business for a webinar for PGCE students who are currently out on placement in schools. The webinar offered support to students regarding their upcoming assignments. Skype for Business is available to all members of the University as part of Office 365 ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter - December 2018

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber - Rhagfyr 2018

  • Submit your Blackboard Module for an Exemplary Course Award

    • Applications for the Exemplary Course Award are now open. The closing date for applications is 12pm, 1st February 2019. To submit an application, download the application form here and consult the guidance available on our webpages. The Exemplary Course Award is designed to recognise exemplary practice in Blackboard modules. Since its launch in 2013, the Exemplary ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored – Tachwedd 2018

  • OA Repository Newsletter - November 2018

  • Aberystwyth/Bangor Academy Showcase

    • Academy Showcase is a space for sharing good practise among staff from Aberystwyth, Bangor and other Higher Education institutions. Every year we run two sessions with two presentations each, one from Aber and one from Bangor. Anybody can join Academy Showcase from their own machines using the link available here We look forward this year’s presentations ...more

  • Academy Forum 2018/19

    • This year’s Academy Forums are now well underway. This year, our Academy Forums are structured around themes that emerged from the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference and were put forward by conference delegates. The Academy Forums for the year are: 03.10.2018, 3pm-4pm: Introduction to Academy Forum 11.10.2018, 10am-11am: JISC's Student Digital Tracker 16.11.2018, 11am-12pm: Students as ...more

  • Training and Support

    • This year’s E-learning Training programme is well underway. You can book onto our training sessions via the CDSAP booking pages. This year, our training is split into 3 different levels so that the training that we are offering you meets your needs. Our first level is E-learning Essentials. These sessions are aimed at people who have ...more

  • Do you need assistance with Panopto?

    • Panopto is the University’s Lecture Capture software and is installed on all teaching rooms across the University. In line with the Lecture Capture policy, all lectures require to be recorded using Panopto. The recordings are widely used and greatly appreciated by our students. In order to ensure that recordings are of the highest possible quality and ...more

  • Jisc Digi Tracker: benefits and what to do with findings?

    • Read Jisc Digi Tracker and Jisc Digi Tracker: Key findings What benefits came out from the project? Clear directions for improvements. The benchmarking data helped us to reflect on AU strengths and weaknesses in comparison to other institutions. As a valued participant in the pilot Student Tracker we were the only Welsh university invited to take ...more

  • To celebrate Open Access Week’s #ThesisThursday

  • I ddathlu #DyddIauTraethodau Wythnos Mynediad Agored

  • OA Repository Newsletter - Open Access Week 2018

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored - Wythnos Mynediad Agored 2018

  • 6th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

    • This year’s annual Learning and Teaching Conference saw a range of students, academic and support staff come together from across the University to showcase their innovative practice. This year’s conference theme, Stepping up Students Learning, aimed to showcase and celebrate the areas of best practice in teaching and learning happening at Aberystwyth. Hot off the ...more

  • The Games Scientists Play

    • I bet that more scientists than the average person enjoys games. Games can range from those which involve just chance (snakes and ladders), to those that require strategy and choice (poker), with many examples in-between (Monopoly, Cluedo and my personal favourite, Hungry Hippos). Games are even dealt with by their own branch of mathematics – game ...more

  • The Science Behind Games - Part 1; Pandemic

    • .A game of Pandemic, image by Padaguan, 2015, available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pandemic_board_game.jpg If someone said “board game” to you, what instantly comes to mind? If you think Monopoly, Cluedo or Scrabble, then no doubt you also have memories of frustrating and forced family fun on those cold winter evenings. Alternatively, if you think Settlers of ...more

  • Zoomorphism and the danger of analogy

    • Myxobacteria are soil-dwelling microbes that live by killing and consuming other members of the soil microbial community. They aren’t fussy, eating all varieties of bacteria and also fungi, making them of considerable interest as potential sources of new antimicrobials. Myxobacterial feeding has been described as employing a ‘wolf-pack’ strategy, as it seems to be more efficient ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored – Medi 2018