Message from Monica Matthews, Academic Skills for Staff Coordinator: PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 23 JANUARY 2019. Monica will be in touch with everyone who signed up. You’re invited! As a member of the DLF, we thought you might be interested in the next Academic Skills Centre…
At our meeting on 25 September Sofia Skevofylaka and Stewart Squire of DUSA gave a short presentation about what the Students’ Association does for students in general, including DL students. They have approximately 500 class representatives – there should be one for every class. Not all DUSA’s services are currently…
Sofia Skevofylaka and Stewart Squire of DUSA gave a short presentation about what the Students’ Association does for students in general, including DL students. See separate blog posting about this input. Hamish Loveday of CTIL spoke to us on the topic ‘My Dundee: Change is coming’ Blackboard SaaS (software as…
Monica Matthews, Academic Skills for Staff Co-ordinator, has asked me to circulate the following news about forthcoming events from ASC: You are invited! The Academic Skills Centre will be focussing on Distance Learning in this year’s Sharing Good Practice Lunchtime Seminar Series, which kicks off on 31 October (fancy dress not required!) with…
Caroline Brown, University of Dundee Archivist, recently brought our attention to a story in a UoD Newsletter dating back to 1998, suggesting, as she pointed out: ‘some things never change!’
29.11.18 (Thursday) 14-16.00 hrs City Campus, Dalhousie 1G06 Student engagement online – how we do it and how we can do it better; Responsibility of learners for their own learning Adviser of Studies handbook 04.12.18 (Tuesday) 14-15.00 hrs Online via Collaborate Ultra; join…
As you may already know I’ve recently been seconded for half my time to the newly created post of Academic Lead for Distance & Blended Learning. I’ll be working closely with the Distance Learning Forum as we look at ways of further increasing the visibility of Distance Learning, enhancing what…
This year’s first DLF session, on 25 September, will kick off with Sofia Skevofylaka and Stewart Squire bringing us up to date with DUSA’s work on distance learning student representation – and what they hope to achieve in the year ahead. Hamish Loveday of our Centre for Innovation and Technology…
We are pleased to have found a new home for DLF communications here on the My Dundee blog. About the DLF: University of Dundee’s Distance Learning Forum is comprised of a wide mix of academics, administrative and executive staff and students who are committed to promoting the interests of the…