The Learning Technologist’s Areas of Responsibility

Posted on 13 February 2017 by Catherine Emmett

This post is a companion piece to an agenda item for the next LT Group meeting on 21 February. Posted by Simon Wood and Catherine Emmett. At the last meeting, the group felt it would be valuable for the Learning Technologist (LT) community to discuss the Learning Technologist Review Report shared with us. In this
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Curiosity revived the Catherine: reflections on PCUTL

Posted on 21 July 2015 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett (LTET) One of the paths of staff development possible to teaching staff, and teaching-related staff such as learning technologists, at Cardiff is the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning (PCUTL). I’ve been doing PCUTL myself and found out last week that I’ve passed. Having received the good news, it seemed like a good time
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The myth of the silver bullet: feedback through GradeMark

Posted on 20 May 2015 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett Cognitive psychologists and pedagogical researchers frequently warn against the idea of a pedagogical ‘silver bullet’ (a simple solution to a complex issue). In the past 50 years, a whole range of these kinds of ideas have been debunked – including the idea of basing teaching on learning styles (Pashler et al, 2008), the
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Turnitin (and a bit more besides)!

Posted on 13 May 2015 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett As Dewi mentioned in a recent blog post, the LTET, ELTT and Medic E-learning teams have been working together to put together a range of FAQs about Turnitin. You can find them all at this address: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/Turnitin It’s a work in progress, and currently most of the FAQs relate to key parts of the workflow
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Digital literacy – who’s responsible?

Posted on 23 October 2014 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett and Joe Nicholls (guest blogger) Over a coffee with colleagues last week, discussion turned to digital literacy in learning and teaching. A question was asked – who is responsible for our students’ digital literacies? The answer’s pretty simply really. You. And that’s really to say, all of us! To understand why that is, let’s first answer
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Accessible learning

Posted on 24 September 2014 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett Recently, ELTT were asked whether the core learning technology tools we use in the University are accessible. I’m not going to talk again here about what is important about accessibility because I’ve blogged a bit about this previously, but I am going to try to answer this question. In fact, there isn’t a
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BoB’s your Uncle! On broadcast audio visual resources

Posted on 13 September 2014 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett Recently, our colleagues in the PgCUTL (Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning) team talked about the possibility of a Brown Bag lunch related to using BoB materials in teaching. (Thanks to Fiona Morgan and Clare Kell for copying us in on this one.) If you haven’t come across BoB before, it
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Showcasing Learning Central possibilities: an update

Posted on 26 August 2014 by Catherine Emmett

Our ELTT mailbox has been pretty full lately with queries about the showcase event we’ve advertised. So first just a reminder, if you’re interested in it, then details and booking can be found at the following links: Thursday 18th September in John Percival 0.01 at 12pm. Book here. Tuesday 23rd September in Glamorgan 0.85 at
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Power of three and planning online content

Posted on 22 July 2014 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett It’s long been considered that there are many interesting things that come in threes. Throughout history, in just about every area of life, people have shared knowledge about the power of three. Here’s a few examples. English Literature: the ‘rule of three’ is used to make a powerful impact in writing; it’s
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Thinking small: 3 tips for mobile learning

Posted on 4 July 2014 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett Whilst doing some research for a workshop last week, I was struck by a statistic from the Welcome to Cardiff survey carried out with undergraduate students. Students in the survey were asked to indicate what kind of mobile phone they brought with them to University. Did you know…? 91% of the 2013
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