WebLearn and Turnitin courses Michaelmas Term 2015

A variety of taught courses are offered by IT Services to support the use of WebLearn and the plagiarism awareness software Turnitin. Course books for the formal courses (3-hour sessions) can be downloaded for self study. Places are limited and … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin courses Trinity Term 2015

A variety of taught courses are offered by IT Services to support the use of WebLearn and the plagiarism awareness software Turnitin. Course books for the formal courses (3-hour sessions) can be downloaded for self study. Places are limited and … Continue reading

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WebLearn Improved Student Experience (WISE) project

The WISE project will support departments, faculties, colleges and units to fast-track the development and improvement of their WebLearn presence in order to deliver an enhanced (and consistent) student digital experience, as per recommendations from previous projects. The project aims to … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin Courses Hilary Term 2015

A variety of taught courses are offered by IT Services to support the use of WebLearn and the plagiarism awareness software Turnitin. Course books for the formal courses (3-hour sessions) can be downloaded for self study. Places are limited and … Continue reading

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Learning Analytics workshop

SAHELA (South African Higher Education Learning Analytics) Workshop (In cooperation with the Stanford Learning Analytics Summer Institute) Pretoria, South Africa, 15 September 2014 Learning analytics (LA) is becoming an increasingly important area of investigation – to recognise students who are … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin courses MT 2014

We have planned another full programme of ITLP courses for the new term. The majority of courses are aimed at staff members, but there is one for students on ‘Awareness and avoidance of plagiarism’, which has proved to be very … Continue reading

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Highlights of ALT-C Conference

Here is a collection of the highlights from the ALT-C Conference held at the University of Warwick, 1-3 September 2014. Keynote: Jeff Haywood (Quote Jeff Haywood: “We JUST NEED a lot more leaning designers/technologists, and they must work as a … Continue reading

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Peer assessment coming in WebLearn 10

The WebLearn team is upgrading WebLearn to Sakai version 10 over the summer (2014). One of the great new features of the Assignments tool is that it allows peer review and grading (peer assessment). This screenshot shows two students who … Continue reading

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Sakai Virtual Conference – Call for presentations

Following the earlier notification to ‘Save the date’, here are further details of the Sakai Virtual Conference which has now opened the call for papers: deadline 22 August 2014. See further details below. Note that the online event on 7 … Continue reading

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Wikipedia editors named in US law suit

Referring to my earlier post encouraging volunteers to write articles for Wikipedia, here is a cautionary tale about a US law suit against four Wikipedia editors by a person who claims they defamed him in an editors’ discussion forum. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/15/wikimedia-foundation-offers-assistance-to-named-defamation-editors/ … Continue reading

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