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Your Fellowship Records
- Do you hold any category of HEA Fellowship (awarded by Advance HE)? This may be Associate Fellow (AFHEA), Fellow (FHEA), Senior Fellow (SFHEA) or Principal Fellow (PFHEA). If so, many congratulations! Your fellowship “demonstrates a personal and institutional commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching in higher education.” (Advance HE, Fellowship) As part of our annual data returns, ...more
Weekly Resource Roundup - 20/6/2022
- As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. ...more
Changes to Turnitin: Information for Students
- For the academic year 2022/23 we will be using a new version of Turnitin. On Tuesday 5 July Information Services will be enabling the new Turnitin on Blackboard. Whilst most of Turnitin’s current functionality will remain the same, there will be some changes. To help students with this change, we have arranged the following FAQs: Why is Turnitin changing?What ...more
Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance 09.07.2022
- Turnitin will be unavailable between 00:00 and 08:00 on Saturday 9 July 2022 for scheduled maintenance. During this time, you will be unable to submit or grade any assessments. We apologise for any inconvenience ...more
Annual Learning and Teaching Conference Keynote Announcement
- We are pleased to announce this year’s annual learning and teaching conference keynote (12-14 September 2022). Kyra Araneta, Jennifer Fraser, and Moonisah Usman from the University of Westminster will be joining us virtually for their keynote speech, Navigating power lines: Developing principles and practices to support socially just student : staff partnerships. In this keynote Kyra, Jennifer, ...more
OA Repository Newsletter – May 2022
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Weekly Resource Roundup - 10/6/2022
- As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. ...more
LTEU 2022 Summer Update
- Update to Turnitin For the academic year 2022/23 we will be using a new version of Turnitin. On Tuesday 5 July 2022 Information Services will be enabling the new version of Turnitin on Blackboard. Whilst most of Turnitin’s current functionality will remain the same, there will be some changes. To help staff with this change, we have ...more
Weekly Resource Roundup - 6/6/2022
- As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. ...more
Blackboard Course Creation 2022-23
- Towards the end of July we will start to create Blackboard modules for 2022-23. Unlike previous years, there will be no existing courses created blank. This decision was made at the recent Academic Board. Course content and files will be copied over from the version of the module in the previous academic year. Turnitin submission points, Panopto ...more
Exciting news for Information Studies students!
- We’ve been subscribing to a great resource affectionately known as ‘LISA’ for many years. This resource has been invaluable to Information Studies students and staff for many years. LISA (Library & Information Science Abstracts) helps to focus searching for international scholarly literature on library and information science. However, as suggested by the ...more
Contract Cheating: Red Flag Checklist Workshop– Materials Available
- On 20 May, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit were joined by Dr Mary Davies, Stephen Bunbury, Anna Krajewska, and Dr Matthew Jones for their online workshop: Contract Cheating Detection for Markers (Red Flags). With other colleagues, they form the London South East Academic Integrity Network Contract Cheating Working Group and have been doing essential work ...more
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2022
- Today (19th May) is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than One Billion people with disabilities/impairments. When we make our digital content more accessible, we remove barriers and ensure that all our users can get the ...more
Website Improvements
- We've rolled out some changes this week to improve the accessiblity of our website. We've improved our image sliders to reduce distractions. The sliders can now be paused with a pause button, so you don't have to keep your mouse on them to make them stop. This means that users who find them distracting can pause ...more
LinkedIn Learning Curator Training in June
- Are you interested in learning more about becoming a curator in LinkedIn Learning? With curator access, you can upload and arrange content into an intuitive and engaging format, in addition to receiving insights into how your audience is engaging with your content. Simon Lee, Senior Customer Success Manager for Higher Education at LinkedIn, will deliver two ...more
From Resources to referencing
- Assignments: from Resources to Referencing has been prepared by the Subject Librarians at the University to develop key information literacy skills essential for academic study – from finding high quality academic materials to citing resources correctly in your assignments. The module is available to all students on Blackboard. The module currently contains three sections: Library ...more
Earth Day 2022: Invest in our Planet
- Today we are celebrating Earth Day, and this year’s theme is #InvestInOurPlanet. We as individuals can invest our time and effort into learning more about sustainability and the changes that we can make to our daily habits to live a more sustainable life. Remember, small changes can make a big difference to our planet. Here is a ...more
Student Digital Experience Insights Survey
- Students, tell us about your recent digital learning experience. Take part in the Student Digital Experience Insights Survey - a short online survey to find out how you use technology and how this affects your learning experience. This is an opportunity to voice your opinions, shape your digital experience and to win a £100 voucher or one of ...more
FREE Microsoft Cloud Computing Certification for Students
- Cloud computing is often rated as one of the most sought-after tech skills, and with the recent shift towards remote working and learning, there’s no surprise that employers are searching for graduates with these skills. Students, don’t miss out on an exciting opportunity by Microsoft to access their live training webinars, exam practice tests and Microsoft ...more
BBC Historic Archive now available through Box of Broadcasts.
- If you are anything like me then you are probably rejoicing in the fact that the BBC's archive of historic radio and television programmes is being made available through Box of Broadcasts. I for one can’t wait to watch post-apocalyptic fun-fest Z for Zachariah (broadcast in 1984 as part of the Play for Today strand). If ...more