Open Doors, Open Minds on Storify

The Storify application has been used to save tweets, links and photographs from the Open Doors, Open Minds conference - check it out at  sfy.co/hJGP #storify #dmuodom #dmupbt

NMC Horizon Report on Higher Education 2013

The NMC Horizon Report provides an unbiased source of information to help education leaders, policy makers, and academics easily understand the key emerging technologies, and when they are likely to enter mainstream use and impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education.

The 2013 Higher Education report identifies the following technologies will impact on HE in the next half-decade:

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

• Flipped Classroom
• Massively Open Online Courses
• Mobile Apps
• Tablet Computing

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

• Augmented Reality
• Game-Based Learning
• The Internet of Things
• Learning Analytics

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

• 3D Printing
• Flexible Displays
• Next Generation Batteries
• Wearable Technology

Finalising the Workshop

Over the past few days we have been fitting face-to-face meetings and email consultations into what has proved to be a demanding week for most of us.  However, the Conference takes place tomorrow, so we've run the advance technology checks, printed off our handouts and updated our slides. 

Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Internet Services

Martin Hamilton has recently published a draft guide to Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Internet Services for Loughborough University.  Martin also links to a policy document developed at Loughborough last year on BYOD @ Lboro (Bring Your Own Device at Loughborough) which may be helpful for those of us grasping with the issues this raises.

For DMU staff and students, the CELT Team have already produced guidance on DMU Core Learning Technologies  and Using non-DMU technologies.

Augmented Reality in Education

Earlier today a webinar on Augmented Reality in Education was hosted by Team SCARLET  (Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching) at the University of Manchester. The recorded webinar will appear on the Team SCARLET blog shortly. 

If Augmented Reality is new to you, you may wish to check out 7 Things You Should Know About Augmented Reality and this discussion on the Guardian Higher Education Network from February 2013: Augmented reality in education: teaching tool or passing trend?  

Social Media and Open Doors, Open Minds

Do follow us on Twitter @Pedagogology and use the hashtag #DMUPBT during our workshop

The general hashtag for the Conference is #DMUODOM

 

The full Conference schedule is on Lanyrd, the social conference directory: http://lanyrd.com/2013/odom/ 

Link to interesting article

A very interesting article from Gibbs and Simpson that addresses the impact of assessment and feedback on learning. Highly recommended to read for all the academic practitioners. 

Webinar: e-Assessment tools to create and track assessment activities

JISC are providing a free webinar on e-Assessment tools to create and track assessment activities on Wednesday 17 April 2013 from 13:15 - 14:00.

The webinar will look at a range of free assessment tools that can be used to create, track and record assessment activities. The activities can be accessed via mobile devices, and participants will be able to engage in some quizzes using their own mobile devices.

Advance registration for this event is required - a link is available at the foot of the session information. This session is provided using Blackboard Collaborate and a link will be sent in the joining instructions approximately 1 week before the event to those booked on.

Bursaries to attend Assessment Conference

 
We recently publicised the Fourth Assessment in Higher Education Conference. The organisers are offering several conference bursaries available for early career academics and PhD students working in the field of assessment in higher education.  These will be allocated on a first come first served basis subject to meeting the award criteria.  For more details click here.

Fourth Assessment in Higher Education Conference

The Fourth Assessment in Higher Education Conference, sponsored by the Higher Education Academy (Higher Education Academy), will take place on 26-27 June 2013 in Birmingham.  Themes of the programme will include ‘Engaging students in assessment and feedback’, ‘Assessment for learning’ and ‘Assessment technologies’.

The conference will investigate developments and challenges associated with assessment in higher education. It aims to increase understanding of the issues involved within and across academic disciplines. These issues include a diversifying student body and expectations of graduate employability which impact on the administrative and quality systems within an institution’s assessment structure.

Visit the conference website at: www.aheconference.com

Open Doors, Open Minds workshop

Our Learning Set is running a workshop at the Open Doors – Open Minds: Engaging with Higher Education on 19th April 2013. Details are below:

Pedagogy before Technology? The Modern HE Experience for Modern Students

 

“As digital technology dominates students' behaviour in everyday life, that technology can be used to enhance the teacher-learner dialogue as new ways of engaging students in learning become available” (Biggs and Tang, 2007 p70).

This interactive and engaging workshop will initiate a debate examining the current and future relationship between pedagogy and technology.

 

[Presenters: Alison McNab, Brian Wealthall, Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu, Xincai Tan, John Hart,Louise Hodgson and Daniel Paluszczyszyn]

Welcome

This blog has been created to support the work of a PG Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) 2012-13 Learning Set comprising: Alison McNab, Brian Wealthall, Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu, Xincai Tan, John Hart, Louise Hodgson and Daniel Paluszczyszyn.

The blog also includes background and supporting material for our workshop at the DMU teaching Conference: Open Doors – Open Minds: Engaging with Higher Education, hosted by the 2012/13 cohort of the DMU Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education on 19th April 2013.  Click on the poster below to see the conference programme:

Conference Programme