Digital education

Free Open Educational Resources (OER)

Posted on 10 December 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry I went to an OER workshop a couple of weeks ago, run by CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching), and I promised to let Catherine […]

Welcome Gethin Rowlands to the ELTT

Posted on 9 December 2014 by Gethin Rowlands

A very warm welcome to Gethin, who started last week and joins us from Coleg Gwent. Gethin writes his first blog post about his experience, his first week, and the […]

Accessing LearningCentral (Blackboard) content offline using an Application Cache

Posted on 3 December 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Christopher John (guest blogger) Chris is the E-learning Officer for the Masters in Educational Practice (MEP) programme, a bilingual Welsh Government Masters programme available to all Newly Qualified Teachers in Wales, based in the […]

Grademark – exporting and importing quickmarks and rubrics

Posted on 28 November 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry I answered an e-mail this week around sharing Quickmarks and rubrics across assignments/modules/staff. While it’s still fresh in the memory, here goes. Personally, I think that the […]

Time for (Grade)Marking! – assessment, marking and feedback

Posted on 4 November 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry It will soon be coming up to that time of year again (marking time!) and Allan and I are currently working on a Turnitin/Grademark training session due […]

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 […]

Learning Central Staff induction / refresher now available

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry As you may have noticed recently, there is a new portlet on your Learning Central homepage (when you’ve logged in). Underneath the “My Announcements” and “My Tasks” […]

Serving web pages through Learning Central

Posted on 9 October 2014 by Allan Theophanides

by Allan Theophanides After helping out a colleague recently, Dr Paul Brennan - an Academic who is very engaged with technology, he kindly acknowledged me in a recent blog post […]

All things E-Assessment…

Posted on 9 October 2014 by Allan Theophanides

By Allan Theophanides Recently the team has received a number of queries asking for help or advice with regards eAssessment.  As such, that’s not a problem; it’s exactly the kind […]

Community of Practice – Learning Technologists

Posted on 29 September 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry Since I arrived back in Registry working for the ELTT team 6 months ago, I have had the privilege of meeting groups of knowledgeable people who work […]