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National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 12 November, 2009

I have just presented at the National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds yesterday at Coventry University with Julie Watson in Modern Languages.  I presented the model of the coordination and management of the University island and talked about how the communication between the five projects in the Schools and disciplines (Medicine, Modern Languages, Archaeology, [...]

E-Learning is now Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009

The E-Learning Implementation Group (Chaired by Rosalynd Jowett) and The E-Learning Strategy Group (Chaired by Hugh Davis) have now merged to form the Technology Enhanced Learning Steering and Implementation Group (TELSIG).  this new group will be able to contribute and respond to the new University strategies for education as they are put in place.  The [...]

LTEF Funding update

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009

It was recently announced at the DHoS meeting that the funding via the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund would no longer be available.  However, possible funding opportunities may arise through other University projects or external funding. 
There are other sources of external funding for learning and teaching and many opportunities for these are circulated through the [...]

Virtual Worlds – Update

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009

As you may or may not be aware LATEU have been instrumental in coordinating projects working in Second Life, on the University Island.  They have been running for nearly a year and have proved to be very successful (full evaluations etc will be available in due course).  It seems though, that we now have to [...]

TeamPoll peer review system – lunchtime session

Posted by: adam1warren on: 30 September, 2009

LATEU is running a lunchtime session about TeamPoll, an online peer feedback system, on Tuesday 13 October from 12.45 to 2.00 in the LATEU training room (25/3077). A buffet lunch will be provided for all people who book a place – please email lateu@soton.ac.uk and note that we are limited to 20 [...]

Synote wins EUNIS E-Learning Award

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 10 August, 2009

Congratulations to Mike Wald (ECS) and his team for winning the EUNIS E-Learning Award this year for Synote.  Synote was presented at Learning and Teaching Week in March and gained alot of interest from those who participated.  Details about Synote can be accessed here.

Telic – a new LATEU blog about learning technologies

Posted by: adam1warren on: 5 June, 2009

Telic (Greek for purposeful action) is a new blog by Adam Warren of LATEU about Technology Enhanced Learning (i.e. the topic formerly known as e-learning) which offers a combination of news, advice, ‘how-to’s and discussion. You can find it here – and linked from the Blogroll on the right.

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Second Life at the University of Southampton

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 22 May, 2009

 
The May edition of activity from the University Island and beyond has just been mailed to all on the second-life mailing list. If you would like to be added to the list, please visit the majordomo website (http://www.lists.soton.ac.uk) for further information.
 
Don’t forget – the next Second Life seminar will be on September 23rd in [...]

Creating an Online Masters

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 22 May, 2009

Everyone welcome to attend a meeting of minds to discuss issues/processes around ‘Creating an online Masters’. we have gathered together people from across the University who are actively involved in creating masters programmes for online delivery. The meeting will be on July 6th and is organised by Fiona Grindey. Please contact fg@soton.ac.uk [...]

Open Educational Resources

Posted by: adam1warren on: 23 March, 2009

This is a report on the first session of Learning and Teaching Week 2009, organised by Hugh Davis (University Director of Education for E-Learning) – 11.00-12.30 Monday 23 March in B27/3007. It focused on the issues raised by the current movement towards open (freely shared) educational resources, especially in relation to EdShare, the University’s new [...]