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OA Repository Newsletter – December 2019
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Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Rhagfyr 2019
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Digital Experience Insights 2019-20: How do you rate technology at Aberystwyth University?
- Aberystwyth University is taking part in the Digital Experience Insights project aiming to explore our students’ experiences of technology. The project is based on online surveys designed by Jisc and used by different institutions across UK. It allows us to get better insights on how students use technology and benchmark our results against other HE intuitions ...more
Mini Conference: Group Work and Group Assessment, Monday 16 December, 10.30am
- Mini Conference Programme On Monday 16th December, at 10.30am, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit 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 the Mini ...more
Changes to Component Marks Transfer Process
- Last year we introduced Component Marks Transfer, a process where marks were transferred from the Blackboard Grade Centre into the module record on AStRA. Following its introduction, we have been working on enhancing this process, which has resulted in some changes. For the most part, the concept of Component Marks remains unchanged. For those of you ...more
Guidance on using Audio Feedback in Turnitin
- Introduction Turnitin is an e-submission software that students use to submit their work and staff use to mark. Marking is done via Turnitin Feedback Studio that has many features, such as rubrics, grade forms, Quick Marks, feedback summaries, and inline comments. In this guide, we’ll be looking specifically at Audio Feedback, a feature of Turnitin that ...more
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, 31st January 2020. 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 Course ...more
Mini Conference Keynote: Working (Groups) in the Digital Age
- The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce Professor John Traxler as the keynote speaker at our forthcoming Mini Conference. The mini conference will focus on Group Work and Group Assessment and will be held on Monday 16th December, 10:30am-4pm in B.03, Visualisation Centre. You can book onto the event online. Mini Conference Keynote: Working (Groups) ...more
OA Repository Newsletter - November 2019
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Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Tachwedd 2019
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Professor John Traxler - Mini Conference Presentation
- The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce Professor John Traxler as the keynote speaker at our forthcoming Mini Conference. The mini conference will focus on Group Work and Group Assessment and will be held on Monday 16th December. John Traxler, FRSA, is Professor of Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at the ...more
Iris de Freitas NOW OPEN
- Come and have a look around, it's VERY nice! One of the new Group Study rooms New relaxed ...more
Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Hydref 2019
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OA Repository Newsletter – October 2019
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Mini Conference: Inclusive Education Summary: Part 2
- This is the second blogpost documenting this year’s Mini Conference on Inclusive Education that was recently hosted by the E-learning Group. For an overview of the first half, please see this blogpost. The second half of the conference began with Neil MacKintosh and Meirion Roberts from the IBERS BioInnovation Wales scheme discussing widening access to their ...more
Mini Conference: Inclusive Education Summary: Part 1
- On the 10th April, the E-learning Group welcomed 26 staff members from across the University to this year’s Mini Conference. The theme for this year’s Mini Conference was Inclusive Education and the six presentations ranged from practical guides for creating accessible documents through to working with neurodiverse students. Over the course of the afternoon, there ...more
Call for Proposals - Group Work and Group Assessment
- The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit are pleased to announce that the first of this year’s Academy Mini Conferences will be held on Monday 16th December 2019. This Mini Conference will explore the advantageous and complex nature of group work, in and out of the classroom, and as a mode of assessment. We are looking for ...more
I ddathlu #DyddIauTraethodau Wythnos Mynediad Agored 2019
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To celebrate Open Access Week’s #ThesisThursday 2019
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OA Repository Newsletter - September 2019
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