We had a great meeting on 5 December and here are my brief notes from that. I’m delighted to report that Qabirul Abdullah of Medical Education, a long-standing DLF attendee, has now taken over as co-convenor of the DLF and will be working together with Susie in that role. The next…
We are looking forward to seeing you at our next DLF meeting, which takes place on Thursday 5 December, 14-16.00 hrs, in Dalhousie 2S14. This promises to be an illuminating, indeed exciting event… Firstly, we have Lindsay Donnelly, IT Communications Lead from UoDIT, giving us a short presentation on the recent…
Here are my brief notes from the last DLF meeting. Dates for diaries for next DLF meetings: Thursday 5 December 2019 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S14 Tuesday 10 March 2020 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S15 Thursday 14 May 2020 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S15 Hope to see you at one or all of…
We hope you all had a great summer. With the new academic term fast approaching, we’d like to invite you to our next Distance Learning Forum. The DLF was created as a network of those involved in our (now mainly online) distance learning courses. It provides a space to discuss…
At our meeting on 9 May we were hearing about Blackboard Ultra and we also had a workshop about using Sway. I decided to make the note in Sway: have a look and see what you think. Following discussion with CTIL, I discovered that unfortunately the ’embed’ code for Sway…
If you haven’t attended the DLF for a while, now is a very good time to come back! On Thursday 9 May we will start in Dalhousie 1G06, where we will be joined by Hamish Loveday of CTIL, who will be telling us all about Blackboard Ultra and showing us…
Proposed dates for the DLF meetings in 2019/20 are as follows: Tuesday 1 October 2019 14-16.00 hrs Thursday 5 December 2019 14-16.00 hrs Tuesday 10 March 2020 14-16.00 hrs Thursday 14 May 2020 14-16.00 hrs As usual we are varying between Tuesdays and Thursdays so that those who are always…
We had a great meeting on Tuesday 5 March, when Jonathan Walker of UoDIT ran us through some of the facilities offered by the new interactive learning space in Dalhousie… and we discussed programme evaluation, with helpful inputs from Iain Gillespie on the University Survey Service and Martin Glover on the PG…
· Three upcoming seminars of interest to anyone involved in distance and online learning · All seminars are at 12.30-1.45pm in the EduZone, Main Library, and include lunch Friday 1 March Developing scholarship and evidence-based practice in digitally distributed learning and teaching – Professor Keith Smyth, University of the Highlands…
We are looking forward to welcoming you along to the next meeting of the Distance Learning Forum which takes place on Tuesday 5 March. Here are the topics we’ll be covering: (1) The new interactive learning space at Dalhousie 2S15 As you will see from the subject line above, we’re…