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Tag: Innovation

Pixel Predicaments

An ai generated image of a robot looking at art in a museum
14 September 202314 September 2023
Josef Brett
Creating content, Innovation, News

In this post I discuss the ethical issues that are developing with the use of some AI image generation services.

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eCoffee in 2021-22

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
2 September 20222 September 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

It’s been a while since the “@SGH” part of eCoffee has been strictly accurate, but we’ve had another year of valuable virtual meet-ups.

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Blackboard and VLE Awards: 10th anniversary

Over a background of trailing glittery stars, text reads 'University of Southampton Blackboard & VLE Awards 2022'
6 May 202223 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events

Our 10th Blackboard & VLE Awards gave us plenty to celebrate! In this post we reveal the winning courses and share some highlights from this year’s event.

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Blackboard and VLE Awards 2022

Text that reads Blackboard and VLE awards with a star trophy to the right of the text.
11 January 202211 January 2022
Luke Searle
Events

Rewarding excellence. The 2022 Blackboard and VLE award nominations are open. Nominate your module to be shortlisted today.

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A year of eCoffees

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26 October 202123 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

In person, eCoffee@SGH provided opportunities not only for peer learning and support with TEL tools and techniques but also for forging connections.  Since we’ve been meeting online, that opportunity has felt just as important – if not more so.  Sharing

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2021

Close-up of Excellence in VLE Awards trophy with text 'Winner 2021' and 'University of Southampton'
25 May 202123 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Innovation

In a year of many challenges, one common story is that students feel short-changed by their online learning experience. It’s therefore been both heartening and humbling to receive 1235 nominations from students for our 9th annual Blackboard & Virtual Learning

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2020

Close up shot of a woman using a laptop.
10 June 202023 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events

The university’s Virtual Learning Environment Awards were particularly virtual this year, with winners announced via a Twitter event and a Special Edition Newsletter. Students’ insight throughout the process is key, with student representatives taking time to select a shortlist from

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What do this year’s Blackboard & VLE Awards tell us about remote learning?

Blackboard & VLE Award 2019 trophies
29 April 202018 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, News

At the point we launched this year’s search for examples of excellent use of virtual learning environments, we didn’t know we’d all be moving in!  With learning shifted to virtual spaces, it’s useful to reflect on what this year’s nominations

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Developing a VR Experience: Major Trauma Resuscitation Simulation

A screen shot of a video showing paramedics pushing a hospital trolley
9 March 202018 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
Case study

Background We are working with colleagues in Medicine, Health Sciences, and staff at the Southampton General Hospital Emergency Department to capture a Major Trauma Resuscitation Simulation in 360 degree video. When viewed in a virtual reality headset, the audience is

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2020

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
17 February 202018 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events

Nominations for the university’s annual Blackboard & VLE Awards competition are now open, giving you the opportunity to feed back on what you find most helpful in a virtual learning environment, and to put forward examples of courses that do

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eCoffee @ SGH: Video meetings and tutorials

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
7 January 202018 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

December’s eCoffee involved an experimental live event: could we run a session about video meetings simultaneously as a face-to-face session and online for remote participants? While this sounds like something that potentially could involve specialist equipment and planning, we took

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eCoffee @ SGH: Working more efficiently

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
25 November 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Ahead of this month’s eCoffee we asked colleagues for recommendations for tools that support organisation, planning and efficiency, and took the opportunity during the session to try some of these out. Office 365 and Microsoft Teams Office 365 includes various

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Virtual Reality for Education

Student and teacher using VR
28 August 201916 August 2023
Mimi Lee
News

What is Virtual Reality (VR)? Here in the Digital Learning team, we are constantly looking into new tools and technologies that will enhance education. This year was no exception as we invested time and effort into the world of Virtual

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Connect: VLE Swap shop

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
9 August 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events

Our guest contributors at July’s Digital Learning Connect event were well placed to offer insight into what makes a successful virtual learning environment, having both won university Blackboard & VLE Awards, as well as making it onto the shortlist each

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eCoffee @ SGH: Blackboard – what works well?

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
12 July 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Medicine has seen continuing success over the seven years of the university’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, so in July’s eCoffee we explored some features of winning courses, sharing some ideas and inspiration ahead of the next academic year. Blackboard upgrade

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eCoffee @ SGH: OneWeb and social media

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
10 June 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events

In May’s eCoffee session we welcomed back Ayala Gordon and Jonny Vaughan from the Digital Team, to discuss how we provide simple, accessible, relevant, useful information, not just via university websites but digital services as a whole. In keeping with

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
7 May 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, News

This year saw our seventh annual Blackboard & VLE Awards, with students putting forward an impressive array of modules that offer valuable online support for their learning.  Students’ insightful comments about why a particular approach works, or the benefits of

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ecoffee @ SGH: Universal Design for Learning

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
10 April 201916 August 2023
Tamsyn Smith
Events, News

What is Universal Design for Learning? Why does UDL matter? To understand what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is, firstly, we need to look back at the origins of Universal Design. Architect Ron Mace coined the term “universal design” to

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BVE 2019 – the unexpected trend towards AI

3d rendering humanoid robot with AI text in circuit pattern.
26 March 201916 August 2023
Josef Brett
News

The end of February was the annual Media Team trip to the British Video Expo (BVE) at ExCel in London. In the past, we have used the event to investigate new equipment, chat to other industry experts and learn new

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What’s next for edtech? BETT 2019

Several small robots.
26 March 201927 March 2019
Sarah Fielding
Events, Innovation

In January, Sarah Fielding and Chrissie Metcalf attended BETT – an education showcase event hosted by Microsoft. Bringing together 850 leading companies and 103 exciting new edtech start-ups, BETT gives its 34,700 attendees from the global education community an opportunity to

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019

Postcard saying 'Have you voted in the Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019? There is a graphic of a hand on a laptop next to a phone.
26 March 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News

Nominations are open for our seventh annual Blackboard & VLE Awards.   Students have the opportunity to feed back on what they’ve found particularly helpful to their learning and invite recognition of the staff who are supporting them in this way. A ‘virtual

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ecoffee @ SGH: Virtual Reality in education

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26 March 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

February’s eCoffee saw attendees taken on a series of virtual adventures, using Oculus Go headsets.  Recent university Virtual Reality (VR) projects include creating interactive 360 experiences from footage gathered on field trips.  This supports students in getting the most out of the trip by preparing

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eCoffee @ SGH: Panopto – not just lecture capture!

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
13 December 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Panopto: not just lecture capture was our theme for December’s eCoffee, looking at the various ways Panopto can be used to support teaching, learning and assessment. The university help pages for Panopto at http://go.soton.ac.uk/panopto are a great source to help you get started, and

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eCoffee @ SGH: Using Microsoft Teams

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
5 November 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

In October’s eCoffee we looked at ways Microsoft Teams can support collaborative working and learning.  Teams is part of Office 365 (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/365) and works in conjunction with Office 365’s SharePoint, helping build communication and context around documents stored here. Setting up After creating

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Virtual Reality for UoS Open Days

A woman wearing a VR headset.
17 October 201816 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
News

Why Open Days? At Open days we want to give prospective students and their parents a strong sense of the UOS experience and showcase our unique selling points when it comes to Programmes of Study. For courses which include a

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Case Study: LEGO Serious Play

Studio shot of Lego minifigures set up as if having a board meeting and analyzing a chart.
17 October 201830 November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Case study, Innovation

I learned of LEGO Serious Play in a Playful Learning Workshop organised by Digital Learning, and I immediately decided to give it a go. As a consequence, I borrowed three LEGO kits from the Digital Learning team. Then I tried

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Ready, Steady, Go!

A bleak future for the real world? Image copyright Amblin Entertainment.
17 August 201816 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
News

Ready (Player One) The novel by Ernest Cline (and now a major 2018 feature film) sets out a future where most of humanity uses virtual reality software “to escape the desolation of the real world”. Sounds grim? Smartphones and tablets have become deeply

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eCoffee @ SGH: Personal Professional Development module by Dr Siobhan Lynch

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26 July 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

We finished a year of exciting eCoffees with an inspiring session from Dr Siobhan Lynch.  Siobhan shared the story of the creation and development of the Personal Professional Development module for final year undergraduates, which is delivered predominantly online, while students are on

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eCoffee @ SGH: Communications and Marketing at UoS by Jonny Vaughan

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
28 June 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

In June’s eCoffee, Jonny Vaughan, Ayala Gordon and Hayleigh Sidhu from the university’s Communications and Marketing team visited to share the work they’ve been doing shaping the university’s social media presence. New guidelines have been developed to support university users,

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eCoffee @ SGH: Abreast of Health by Caspian Priest

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
10 May 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

Caspian Priest led May’s eCoffee, taking us on a fascinating journey through the development of an app for research and intervention.  The Abreast of Health study delivers a brief electronic intervention to women attending breast clinics, taking the opportunity to highlight links

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