Big Launch next week

October 31st, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

Next week sees the launch of our refined tool for eReflect. We have been working with central services to make a faster, integrated system and it is looking fantastic. All the books, flyers, posters and every other media ready for 11:00 on Friday. Wish us luck!Mark K.

Blended Learning Conference – Hertfordshire.

September 1st, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

This year Mark Kerrigan & Mark Clements presented our work at the BLU in Hertfordshire. This was our first conference presenting our JISC work and it was a good two days. There were some excellent talks from across the globe reviewing the use of technology, learning strategies and some interesting talks on assessment. We met some great people and had some great talks on our work. If you are interested in watching our presentation (and indeed anyone else’s) you can follow the link here:From this conference we drew on the holistic approaches to degrees and how assessment/feedback can be used to hold a degree together.

Busy month – lots to tell you!

July 24th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

It has been a very busy month for us all as we have been trotting the Globe promoting eReflect. We have spoken at numerous conferences and have received some excellent ideas. We have also met some great people, started new collaborations and generated ideas to feed into the project. Over the next couple of days we will be posting our conference experiences and perhaps even a photograph or two!

Malcolm comes to visit

June 20th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

Yesterday our critical friend came to visit us and sit in on a team meeting. It was very useful to hear his views and ideas as well as helping us view the project from a different angle. We also discussed our CAMEL meeting which is to be held on the 17th and 18th of September. The theme for the meeting will be managing change.

BLU Conference

June 19th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

Just attended and presented at the 4th International Blended Learning Conference in Hertfordshire. An excellent two days talking about education, ideas, developments and networking opportunities. There was also dancing….

Testing the new eReflect tool following on from pilot data

June 6th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

We have had another series of focus groups and now have a good response from staff an students on the ‘good’ and ‘not so good’ parts of the process. Using these, we are now in the process of refining the tool. Currently looking at RSS and TWITTER to make communication freer between staff and students. Also working with central computing to link our process to the central database. This is a very exciting commitment and demonstrates how seriously other people in the University are viewing our work. Fantastic news! M.

eLearning 2.0

May 24th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

We have just heard we have had some work accepted for eLearning 2.0 in London. Looking forward to talking about using Web 2.0 technologies in enhancing the student experience and the development of learning strategies.

ALT – Conference

May 18th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

Our work has been accepted for the ALT conference in Manchester. Very excited about the prospects of sharing our work. An excellent way to end the day.

Twitter link is now active

May 17th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

Using Twitterfeed we have now linked to this blog and so people can now follow our daily activities. We are looking forward to developing a community of like-minded individuals who will be able to feed and follow the JISC project. The internet is a wonderful place!

Twitter

May 16th, 2009 by Mark Kerrigan

We have now started to use twitter to help create a larger web presence and increase the reach of the project. If you are interested in following this then please look at:http://twitter.com/MarkKerrigan