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Moodle User Group meeting
Members of the Learning Technology Team recently attended the latest Moodle User Group meeting to learn about the latest VLE related news and updates. For those that don’t know, Moodle is the online learning platform in which all of our VLEs exist. Four times a year, users of Moodle who are supported by ULCC (University…
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UoLIA MOOC Report (2014)
I am delighted to announce that the University of London has just published its annual report on its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) development and performances in 2014. This 48 page report, prepared by our colleagues in the Academic Project Management team, looks at the data of 9 MOOCs (5 new and 4 re-runs) developed…
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Growing Focus on Measuring Learning – 2015 Horizon Report
This year’s Horizon Report suggests that over the next three to five years one of the key trends in accelerating technology adoption in HE will be a growing focus on measuring learning.
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Enhance Your Career and Employability Skills
Last year, in collaboration with The Careers Group, the University of London International Programmes ran a Coursera course titled Enhance your Career and Employability Skills. We advertised this to all of our current students, but it was always in our mind to make the materials from this course available more directly to our students without…
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Introducing the User Experience Working Group
Some of you may not be aware of the recent creation at UoLIA of the User Experience (UX) Working Group. Under the Chairmanship of Michael Frantzis, Deputy Course Director of the Computing programmes, the group is going to explore issues surrounding the online offering of the International Academy with the benefit of the techniques and…
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First VLE upgrade completed
As part of improvements to the virtual learning environments (VLEs) supported by the Learning Technology Team, the first of many VLE upgrades has been successfully completed by the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC). Our UCL Institute of Education VLE was the first to be upgraded to Moodle 2.8, which is more responsive to mobile…
