E-learning showcase 2012
Parallel Session A
Adventures with students on the world wide web: eLearning tools beyond the VLE
Jane Challinor, School of Social Sciences
A showcase of web based tools to aid teaching and assessment. Tools highlighted include Google Sites, Slideshare, Diigo, Wordpress,
Wikispaces and Facebook. Including authentic examples of student work.
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Using Twitter for learning
Maria Kontogianni, School of Education
This session discussed how the social networking tool Twitter was used to engage students in a fortnightly debating session.
A cohort of 56 year 2 Psychology students participated in fortnightly debates using the microblogging site Twitter.
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View Maria's blog
E-submissions, e-marking and e-feedback at NTU
Carmen Tomas and Mike Williams
The e-assessment IS/CADQ project focuses on technical developments to support the management of e-submissions of coursework
at NTU. The presentation offered an overview of the benefits and challenges, the proposed workflow of coursework submissions
in an e-submissions context and the features of the proposed solution.
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Arts and Humanities experience of online submission
Trevor Pull, School of Arts and Humanities
A session that fed back on the Arts and Humanities experience of online submission. Including an outline of the school guidelines,
support materials developed, feedback from tutors on the experience, lessons learnt, modifications to the guidelines for 2012/13
taking into account experience and central guidelines.
Interim report available in the AHE Learning and Teaching Support learning room.
Anyone can record and edit audio feedback for learning materials
Stuart Jolly
Anyone can record and edit audio! It’s easy! This session was aimed at the technophobe, Dr Stuart Jolly demonstrated how to
record audio, using a digital voice recorder or computer, edit it, filter it and save it using the Audacity software, to use
for feedback and in the production of learning materials, e.g. podcasts.
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Not NOW! Homepage histories and teacherly tweets
Stuart Burch
Running across the top of every learning room in NOW is a series of links. This is the NAVbar. Most academics populate it
with a selection drawn from the set list of pre-prepared options. It is possible to enrich the NAVbar by inserting additional,
customised links. This session will explored its uses.
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Computer based assessment (CBA): an overview
Barry Gregory, Centre for Academic Development and Quality
This session presented an overview of Computer-Based Assessment (CBA). It introduced participants to principles and uses of
CBA, outlined some key considerations for its implementation at NTU (including use of NOW) and gave a number of practical
pointers for individual practice.
Including:
- Types of assessment: diagnostic, formative, summative
- Question types: surface learning vs deep learning
- Question design: key tips for writing effective objective test questions
- Brief demo: using NOW for CBA
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Responding to student feedback: working as a team to improve accessibility of NOW
Alison Hardy, Carolyn Owen and Joanne Reeves, School of Education
This session showcased how a team of staff and students have improved the NOW learning environment in the learning rooms connected
to an undergraduate programme.
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