Resources: Blended learning

9 resources found for "Blended learning"

Resources from the ESCalate-JISC HE in FE conference: Inspiration for practice: Resources from the ESCalate event The ESCalate-JISC HE in FE Conference: Inspiration for Practice, 26 May 2010. This conference was designed for HE practitioners working in an FE environment, and examined the challenges and opportunities of that situation, as well as offering some ideas for excellent practice. The resources include a range of PowerPoint presentations, accompanying handouts and summaries of delegate questions. The resources cover...
Hold on tight we're in for a bumpy ride..: Sarah Weatherhead from the University of Wolverhampton looks at technology-enabled models of ITE (Initial Teacher Education) that support action learning in this article from the ESCalate newsletter. Through my own reflection as an ‘e-tutor’, I realise that meeting the needs of the trainees is a challenge for all involved in nurturing the learning of those in ITE. So I endeavour to continue to communicate with the trainees in various ways; by...
Effective use of learning technologies (ICT) with campus-based students: This is a development project funded by ESCalate in 2003 and led by the Institute of Education to look at how learning technologies can support campus based courses, as opposed to distance learners or the creation of learning materials. This series of symposia / workshops at the Institute of Education, the University of East London, and the University of Westminster, provided a forum of discussion among higher education staff about the use of...
Supporting social bookmarking activities: This is an ESCalate Hot Topic article by Anne-Florence Dujardin of Sheffield Hallam University on how social bookmarking can help students develop a personal and confident stance towards academic texts. The issue is: how can people make use of the pedagogical affordances of social bookmarking? Advice on e-tutoring needs to be revisited, taking into account the functions offered by specific applications. Diigo, for example, isn’t just about...
Widening Participation to University Study Through Flexible Delivery: Abstracts and presentations from this one day conference held on the 21st October 2005
Interactive collaborative online learning for undergraduates: This is an article from the ESCalate Newsletter no. 10, spring 2008 written by Mike Jeffries-Harris. It describes how the University of Exeter received research project funding from ESCalate to investigate ways of using new technologies in the context of collaborative online learning in a blended learning scenario. First-year undergraduates from Education Studies and Childhood and Youth Studies degree programmes followed a new module ‘ICT and...
HELP - Higher Education Learning Partnerships: The main areas of activity of this Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning are: HE in FE partnerships, Community of Practice & Knowledge Exchange, Blended Learning, Retention Progression & Transition, Work Based Learning, HE in FE Theory into Practice, HE in FE Management & Leadership
The Blended Learning Unit: The main areas of activity of this Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning are to develop, promote and evaluate the combination of established ways of Learning and Teaching and the opportunities offered by technology in order to improve students’ learning and increase flexibility in how, when and where they study
A beginner's guide to using video in a research context: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 14, summer 2009 by Fiona Hyland and Anne Anderson of ESCalate. The article looks at how video can provide numerous opportunities for enriching data collection, analyses and dissemination of outputs. It looks at possible uses for video in research, looks at some of practical considerations (including hardware / software issues), includes examples of ways to publish video findings and...