The LTA team reflect on a busy and productive 2019 Looking back on 2019, as one tends to do at this time of year, January seems a long time ago. We have hosted an ever growing range of events and webinars, funded and supported educational scholarship and research projects, offered new networking and leadership development … Continue reading Ding dong merrily on learning and teaching
Pixabay For four days in October and with a splash of trepidation I attended the Jisc Digital Leaders programme in Edinburgh. I enjoy getting out of the office, I enjoy meeting people and I enjoy learning so really this was perfect for me, but I was slightly concerned. My concern was not that I wouldn't … Continue reading Reflections from the Jisc Digital Leadership Programme
Liz Hudson, from the university’s Educational Development Unit (EDU) reflects on the themes of this year’s Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Annual Conference and discusses the future of data usage and data literacy. More than six weeks on from the ALT Annual Conference 2019 in Edinburgh, its alliterative themes, Data, Dialogue and Doing, continue to … Continue reading We need to talk about data
Jo Rodgers, a PhD researcher from the University's Centre for History, describes the use of an online tool to enhance her video conferencing teaching. I’d like to use thisblog post to introduce colleagues to “Answer Garden”, and to suggest some ways in which it can be used to enhance the learning experiences of our students. … Continue reading Answer Garden: using a “minimalist feedback tool” for teaching
By Elaine Dalloway, Educational Development Unit Search for any topic on the web and undoubtedly a link to a page on Wikipedia will appear at the top, or fairly close to the top, of the results returned. Many of us have been cautioned, or have cautioned our students, to be wary of information found in … Continue reading Are you a Wikimedian?
In our ‘Critical Perspectives’ series of blog posts, we have asked staff from around the university to write critically about a topic of interest. Our latest installment is by Dr Sean McLaughlin from Perth College UHI. This blog post is not necessarily intended for those involved in music education (for whom some of these arguments … Continue reading What is music education for?
After a very successful inaugural event last year, held as part of the first University Mentoring Week organised by the Learning and Teaching Academy, the last week of August saw the second annual University Mentoring Scheme Residential for the University of the Highlands and Islands. This year’s residential was held on Wednesday the 28th and … Continue reading Towards an embedded culture of mentoring: Reflections on this year’s University Mentoring Scheme Residential
Image from Wikimedia Academic institutions are one of, if not the largest generators of knowledge in society; they have large real estate and privileged access to resources that many outside the academy do not. Unfortunately, much of the knowledge is locked away in institutional silos, never allowed outside the institution and much of the virtual … Continue reading Towards openness: an invitation and opportunity
Scott Connor from the Learning and Teaching Academy tells us about his attendance at the annual conference for Open Education: OER19 Recentering Open: Critical and global perspectives. The trip to Galway was uneventful apart from the late Ryanair flight that caused me to run for the bus…but I made it. The weather was perfect, which was just … Continue reading OER2019 Galway
Scott Connor from the Learning and Teaching Academy (LTA) introduces us to open educational practice, and explains how open educational practices can benefit both individuals and the University. What is open educational practice? Rennie and Smyth (2019) define open educational practice as: "...a multifaceted one which captures the philosophy and practice of democratising access to … Continue reading Open educational practice for the uninitiated
