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1. Visions of the Future – Teaching and Learning Conference Presentation 2017

   This fun session looked at a handful of big ideas making waves in the digital realm outside of education.

2. Improve Classroom Participation and More by Using Response Sites and Portable Devices

   This week therefore, I want to highlight how a group of mostly free websites can turn students’ own devices into powerful and versatile audience response systems.

3. 12 Ways to use Mobile Response Sites with Student (and Faculty) Devices in the Classroom

   The approaches below are collated from the literature and also from the views of colleagues within the faculty who have used student devices as audience response systems.

4. Sharing Practice – PowerPoint narration for reflection, content creation and assessment

   This academic year the audio narration feature in PowerPoint has been used by a number of staff and programme teams for a variety of tasks.

5. Book in review: Using Simulations for Education, Training and Research (Dieckmann (ed))

   Simulation-based educators should read this book, particularly those who are involved in designing programmes of training or who are responsible for designing the simulator environment and purchasing equipment.

6. Sharing practice – Using the video discussion board to create a community and more…

   Dr Colum Cronin has written an article about the ways in which TEL has influenced the delivery of the course.

7. Anatomy of a tweet – Introduction to twitter part 1

   This week’s post is about twitter, not about how to use it, when to use it, or even whether to use it. Instead this post hopes to demystify the anatomy of a tweet.

8. Sharing practice – Using social media to support your research

   This week Pete Atherton from the School of Education has kindly offered to share some of his experience with social media.

9. Collaborative research opportunities 

   Find out more information about the platforms this Consortium provides for participating institutions to develop innovative collaborative programmes to support targeted areas of research excellence through external funding sources.

10. UK Malaysia University Consortium: Inaugural Student Conference

    Over five days, students from across the UK and Malaysia will come together at the Universiti Malaya to discuss issues and identify solutions based around United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Equality in Higher Education.