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Learning Technology - What's out there? Learning Analytics
Welcome to our short blog series as we highlight learning activities and technologies you want to know more about. This month we'll tell you about... Learning analytics ‘Learning analytics refers to the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about...
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Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching - 30 second update
Dr Marianne Ellis, the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching for the Faculty, summarises what she's been working on over the last 12 months and what's to come in the next year: The Faculty of Engineering & Design has three...
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Allocating our studentship funding
Author: Dr Sally Clift, Faculty Director of Doctoral Studies - Explains how the University Research Studentship Allowance (URSA) awards are allocated. Each year, the Faculty is allocated a number of URSA studentships to award to potential PhD students. There are...
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Staff Induction: Support for Managers Moodle course and my experience of user testing
What’s the idea and who is this Moodle page for? Back in 2017 while working on the Staff Induction Moodle course, it was found that there was a LOT of variation when it came to how inductions were carried out across...
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Chemical Engineering 30 second update
Professor Tim Mays gives us a quick update on what's been happening within the Chemical Engineering Department throughout the last 12 months and what's coming up later in the year: We welcome Drs Bernardo Castro (Lecturer) and Eleni Sikou (Teaching...
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UniDoodle - student sketch-response system
What is it? UniDoodle is a sketch-response app, allowing students to submit graphs, drawings, text and calculations by sketching on their mobile device,with lecturers able to view those responses instantly at their PC. A lecturer can add feedback to a...
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Training the next generation of technology leaders
Author: Dr Steve Cayzer - Director of Studies ITM and EBM "As engineering complexity continues to increase being technically skilled is no longer enough to progress in your career. Having a solid understanding of management concepts, and the ability to...
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Year 12 Engineering Summer School
The 2018 Year 12 Engineering Summer School will take place from Monday 16 to Friday 20 July. Now in its second year, this summer school was heavily oversubscribed in July 2017 when 183 students applied for 60 places. You...
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What is CMIS? (a user's view)
I know how you all love acronyms, so I thought I'd talk about one of the latest ones... CMIS is the 'Curriculum Management Information System' - an IT system which has now been implemented across the university (piloted by Engineering...
