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How can teaching focused staff contribute to creating an institutional strategy for ongoing professional learning in teaching?
Jarvis, Joy; Clark, Karen; Thomas, Rebecca; Smith, Jayne; Nimmo, Susan; Barlow, Janet; Rosella, Tony; julia, Hodgkinson (2016-06-28) -
'How it was for me…': First steps on our Learners' Journeys through HE
Jefferies, A.; Hyde, R.; Bullen, P. (2008)This paper reports on the early stages of the STROLL project, which set out to document and research into learners’ own views of their experiences of learning within what is seen as a technology-rich environment and to ... -
Hybridisation of Social Networking and Learning Environments
Glover, I.; Oliver, A. (2008)Over the past few years there has been a dramatic increase in Online Social Networking, both in terms of the number of web sites that offer this service and the number of users of those sites. The benefits of co-operation ... -
The impact of a managed learning environment upon curriculum design
Alltree, J. (University of Hertfordshire, 2007)The use of managed learning environments (MLEs) to--support student learning is increasingly prevalent in higher education today. An in-house MLE, StudyNet, was introduced at the University of Hertfordshire in 2001. An ... -
Individualising students' scores using blind and holistic peer assessment
Russell, M.; Haritos, G.; Combes, A. (2006) -
Innovations in MLE training at the University of Hertfordshire
Power, F. (2010)In the past StudyNet training at the University of Hertfordshire has consisted of a teacher standing at the front of a classroom demonstrating the features of the system with opportunities for participants to try the ... -
Introduction to electronic voting systems: how to use TurningPoint
Lou, Fang; Lorimer, J. (2010)The place of formative assessment within learning has long been established (Draper 2009, Nicol and Mcfarlane-Dick, 2006) and electronic voting systems (EVS) are an easy to use technology that allows lecturers to incorporate ... -
Investigating university students' prior experiences of technology and their expectations of using technology in their studies
Jefferies, Amanda; Kornbrot, D.; Quadri, Nuzhat (Association for Learning Technology, 2007)Who are the university students of the 21st Century and what characteristics do they have in terms of their interest in using technology for learning? They have been called, for instance, 'the iPOD generation' from the ... -
Investigation of the perceived usefulness of a StudyNet group discussion facility by international students
Gillett, A.; Weetman, C. (2005)Postgraduate international students at UK institutions of higher education often find difficulty dealing with seminar-type discussions. An attempt was made to help students with this by utilising the group discussion ... -
Lessons Learnt from Listening to the Learners’ Voices in HE- how do Students Reflect on Their use of Technology for Learning?
Hyde, R.; Jefferies, A. (2009)The importance of the Learner’s Voice and thus of listening to students’ views has been evidenced in various high profile initiatives in the UK. The work presented here is from the JISC funded Learners’ Experiences of ... -
Listening to the learners' voices in HE: how do students reflect on their use of technology for learning?
Hyde, R.; Jefferies, A. (2008)The importance of the learners voice and thus of listening to students' views has been evidenced in various high profile initiatives in the UK. The work presented here is from the JISC Learners' Experiences of E-Learning ... -
New generation learners - does the learning environment match student expectations
Jefferies, A.; Quadri, N.; Kornbrot, D. (University of Hertfordshire, 2006)Who exactly are our students and what characteristics do they have in terms of their interest in using technology for learning The study presented in brief below developed from a desire to know how far the--new generation ... -
Preliminary explorations into Just-in-Time Teaching
Russell, M. (2006)Accepting that learning is dialogic necessitates the development of teaching and learning activities that support a learning-conversation. Further, Blended Learning requires learning technologies to support the conventional ... -
Recognition of Prior Learning Translation and Transfer (RPLTT): Using Actor-Network-Theory to develop a Specialised Pedagogy
Pokorny, Helen (2023-01-18)The Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a process by which achievements gained through work or other experiences can be formally recognised and accredited in higher education. It has a role to play in providing accelerated ... -
Scaling up wiki-based blended learning environment
Cubric, Marija; Banks, M.; Fletcher, J.; Hobson, J.; Luz, S.; Robins, K. (ICIE, 2009)Since their introduction in the mid nineties, the use of wikis in education has been extensively studied (Bruns & Humphreys, 2007; Forte & Bruckman, 2007; Mindel & Verma 2006; Richardson 2006), debated and documented (see ... -
SeMCQ – Protégé Plugin for Automatic Ontology-Driven Multiple Choice Question Tests Generation
Tosic, M.; Cubric, Marija (Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, 2009)Creating fair and meaningful assessment strategy is one the most difficult areas for every educator. Objective (MCQ) testing has been extensively studied and evaluated as a method for formative and, to a lesser extent, ... -
Student diaries: using technology to produce alternative forms of feedback
Quadri, N.; Bullen, P.; Jefferies, A. (University of Hertfordshire, 2007)Students at the University of Hertfordshire are increasingly exposed to e-learning through the extensive use of the Managed Learning Environment (MLE), and the heavy investment in various--technologies for classroom learning. ... -
The student-staff mentoring project at the University of Hertfordshire
Goossens, Y.; Evans, J.; Jefferies, A. (2009)Peer mentoring has been used by some institutions in order to help those who are less able at something to improve, by pairing them with a mentor of a similar background. Mentoring has been used in academic milieus, where ... -
Student-staff partnership in learning and teaching
Jarvis, Joy; Clark, Karen; Dickerson, Claire; Stockwell, Lewis (2016-10-24)This article focuses on student-staff partnership working in a UK university and draws on literature and practice, particularly from the UK and the US where it is emerging as an approach to educational practice - although ... -
Technology at University : New Students’ Expectations for Social and Academic Uses
Goossens, Y.; Jefferies, A.; Bullen, P. (2008)‘What prior experience of technology use do students new to university have?’ This research reports on students’ use of technology for social and academic purposes at a UK university. The purpose was to identify trends of ...