University Rocks - engaging students with blended learning opportunities Type of snapshot Literacies and informal competence testing were timed to coincide with the students’ arrival at university. What was the context for this snapshot? We wanted to understand more fully the technical skills of incoming students and their confidence...
Ducktectives – Quacking landscape design and e-learning http://cade.writtle.ac.uk/CADENews_06-6-08.asp Type of snapshot Provision in the curriculum: skills/literacies addressed in topic module ‘Learner-led’ provision, e.g. formal and informal mentoring, buddying, skills sharing What was the context for this snapshot? This project involved second year students from the Writtle School of Design (WSD) studying...
In their own words: learners' strategies for effective e-learning http://www.lexdis.org.uk Type of snapshot ‘Learner-led’ provision What was the context for this snapshot? Whole institution - Southampton was founded in 1862 and is one of the leading entrepreneurial universities in the UK and its success in commercialising academic research has been...
Virtual presence and embodiment are digital literacies None available as yet. More about the course is at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/ug/intro/year_two/aspects_of_theatre/theatre_design_new_media/ Type of snapshot Provision in the curriculum: skills/literacies addressed in topic module What was the context for this snapshot? School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick. ‘Theatre, Design...
‘We get it wrong - this helps us fix it’ (Quote from a student) http://bl4ace.tvu.ac.uk Type of snapshot policy or strategy for learning literacies provision in the curriculum: skills/literacies addressed in topic module learner-led’ provision, e.g. formal and informal mentoring, buddying, skills sharing What was the context for...
Communicating architectural understanding in video Type of snapshot policy or strategy for learning literacies central services provision e.g. library, learning development, e-learning, ICT provision in the curriculum: skills/literacies addressed in topic module ‘learner-led’ provision, e.g. formal and informal mentoring, buddying, skills sharing use of technologies to...
Using Google for academic research http://academicgoogle.pbwiki.com Type of snapshot Provision in the curriculum: skills/literacies addressed in topic module What was the context for this snapshot? Subject librarians at Liverpool Hope University offer information skills teaching to students and staff within their academic subject areas as part of a coordinated information...
Embedding information literacy into the health curriculum. Success! Type of snapshot Policy or strategy for learning literacies Provision in the curriculum: skills/literacies addressed in topic module What was the context for this snapshot? This snapshot looks at the Faculty of Health Pre Registration (DiHE/BSc Nursing; Operating Department Practice;...
EnviWiki – encyclopaedia & environment for active learning strategies and mutual communication (teachers, students, experts). DG Education and Culture: Inventory of innovative practices in education for sustainable development: http://ec.europa.eu/education/more-information/doc/sustdev_en.pdf see the case study EnviWiki – Environmental Literacy for Teachers (CZECH REPUBLIC), page 51 see also...
‘bloggeriffic’ http://int1bloggers.blogspot.com/ Type of snapshot Provision in the curriculum: skills/literacies addressed in topic module What was the context for this snapshot? This project involves Intermediate 1 students studying on a generic care and early education course. The unit they are working on is all about working in early education and childcare....