Tag: learning design

  • Professional Accountancy: Ready for go live

    We are approaching the culmination of a year’s hard work on Professional Accountancy. Many different strands of work have come together and over the end of last year and this week we have been working hard to make sure that the VLE for the new Professional Accountancy programme is ready. This has involved pulling together:…

  • Filming for the MSc Professional Accountancy

    Last month saw us filming for the new postgraduate Professional Accountancy programme.

  • Gamification in distance learning

    Gamification is a term being used to describe the integration of game elements, in some form, into course design.   The elements of gamification listed below, may increase the distance learners’ motivation by making learning more interesting and encourage them to be more engaged in the content:

  • Recognition of learning in a ‘Skills ePortfolio’

    The achievements in learning are recognised in various ways.  In order to show commitment to high ethical and professional values and to lifelong learning, one is required to join a professional body associated with their field of expertise. The membership in such professional organisation can be obtained, for instance, by completing the qualification exam and…

  • UoLIA-LTT attend gamification event

    The Learning Technology Team gained some insight recently into the world of games-based learning and gamification (the application of game elements to non-game tasks) at an event held at Senate House on 4th March 2015. The team learned a lot about using rewards and technology to enhance motivation and how to avoid some of the…

  • ALT-C 2009 Pedagogic Innovation

    Pedagogic innovation4 short paper(s)119 Using QR Codes in Teaching and Learning: Delivering the dreamAndy Ramsden QR codes. Mobile/webcam scannable images (2D barcodes) that with the right software will translate into defined pieces of information/tasks. i.e. URL, some text, a pre-defined SMS message. http://www.tigtags.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code http://www.beetagg.com/?gclid=CMfulIiL5JwCFUoB4wodF1FDGA http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ Library dynamically generates QR codes, their code is free…