Digital Learning

15 November 20179 August 2019

Innovation

Mid-module surveys are a great way to gain meaningful feedback from your students that enables you to take action and respond to any issues they raise. Vevox (formerly known as Meetoo) now provides a survey feature that makes it easy to

14 November 20179 August 2019

Events

By Daryl Peel It’s time to get out your diaries. Thursday 16th November 2017, at the staff club on Highfield campus. Opened your diary and got that ready? Good! So what are you getting ready to go to? The Digital

7 November 201715 August 2023

by Daryl Peel Blackboard achievements have often been overlooked by learning designers, seen as a bit of a throwaway carrot to encourage students to take part in various activities in Blackboard. Admittedly, we need to be careful when implementing achievements

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.

Creating content, Tech tips

In November’s e-coffee@SGH we explored some of the possibilities offered by H5P (https://h5p.org/) – a free, easy-to-use tool for creating interactive learning objects. H5P offers a range of content types, with activities produced in a mobile-friendly html5 format. We had a look at various

Two women looking at a laptop with the caption 'Reflecting on ALT-C'.

2 November 20179 April 2019

26 October 201716 May 2020

Innovation

Problems in education are rarely unique: my solution or experience might help you. That’s at the heart of ALT-C, the annual conference of the Association of Learning Technologists. A key theme of this year’s conference was “moving from the practical

Woman sitting at a table writing with the caption 'better learning objects'.

1 November 2017

Stephan Caspar

Creating content

10 ways to ensure your digital media is effective every time. This short guide provides an opportunity for academics and expert contributors to think about the media that they create for courses, whether that’s video, audio podcast, illustration, photograph or

Two women looking at a computer monitor with the caption 'learning with BoB'.

19 October 201731 May 2023

By Adam Warren I have vivid memories from primary school in the 1960s, where the curtains in the main hall were drawn and in the gloom we sat and watched a BBC schools’ broadcast about volcanoes on a black-and-white television. Fast-forward

Four people around a table writing in notebooks with the caption closing the feedback loop.

12 October 201715 August 2023

At one of the first meetings that I attended at the University, a programme validation panel, I asked what mechanisms were in place for students to provide feedback and discuss their work. “My door is always open” came the reply

Slide about podcasting with the caption: podcasting. Why? Accessible, engaging, easy, What? Solo conversation, interview, reflection, feedback, how? plan, produce and publish.

Stephan Caspar

28 September 201716 May 2020

This post was generated in preparation for a 5-minute talk for MEIN — Medical Education Innovation Network. Conference: Monday 25th September, University Hospital Southampton Podcasting is powerful, persuasive, articulate and easy to make, and a challenge to make well. Why? Firstly

Stephan Caspar

Innovation, News

This week saw the launch of MEIN – Medical Education Innovation Network, with a half-day conference at the Institute for Development Sciences at University Hospital Southampton. The conference brought together health professionals, educators and students to discuss the future of medical

Classroom of people sat at desks with laptops in a lecture with the caption H5P working to democratise learning.

27 September 201731 May 2023

19 September 201716 May 2020

Creating content

Notes from the H5P conference, Tromsø, Norway, 11–13th September 2017 Empowering educators Around two years ago we were looking for ways to bring activities into web pages and increase the opportunity for students and educators to start to use WordPress

Title and date of conference What works in assessment and feedback conference.

18 August 201716 May 2020

On 14 September, the University’s RAP (Researching Assessment Practices) initiative hosted a conference that aimed to share some of the innovative work being done across the institution. It’s title was What Works in Assessment and Feedback: Simply Better, clearly signalling

A man wearing a virtual realty headset with the caption Join the Virtual Fieldtrips Working Group.

Sarah Fielding

Innovation

Why Virtual? The 2016 NMC Horizon Report described Virtual Reality in Higher Education as “…[providing] contextual learning experiences that foster exploration of real world data in virtual surroundings”. Interest in, and use of, virtual and augmented reality is

Hands holding a mobile phone with the caption using Meetoo for confidential Q&A in health sciences.

16 August 201728 March 2019

8 August 201721 December 2021

Vevox (formerly known as Meetoo) is an online polling system that is being piloted on a large scale in the University this academic year, following successful initial trials. The aim is to replace the clicker (zapper) devices with

Hands on a laptop keyboard typing with the caption Embedding storyline content in Blackboard.

Following up my post about uploading Storyline content to EdShare, this one describes how you can embed Storyline content on a page in Blackboard. You use the <iframe> function, which embeds one web page within another. This works for VGA

4 August 201716 May 2020

1 August 201714 October 2019

Over the summer, you may be updating your module’s ‘virtual learning environment’ in readiness for the new academic year. If you are looking for inspiration, there is plenty on offer from this year’s Blackboard & VLE Awards. There has been

A joystick and eight cables plugged into a black box with blue lights.

27 July 20179 August 2019

Events, Innovation

by Daryl Peel The Playful Learning Conference in Manchester is run on an annual basis and for Learning Designers who focus on playful learning design it’s the highlight of the year. Three days of fun activities, inspiring keynotes, networking

Cassette with the words 'The 90s' on it.

26 July 201715 August 2023

by Daryl Peel Newsletters have been coming out of various departments at the University of Southampton for a long long time and the Digital Learning Team is no exception. This post will appear once a month with the Digital Learning

July’s eCoffee took us on a tour through some of the tools we have explored over the year, with a chance to catch up with colleagues who have been putting them into action. The LifeLab team have introduced the LifeSaver

A microphone on an orange background with the caption who are we, meet the team!

21 July 201731 May 2023

Sarah Fielding

5 July 20171 December 2020

Who are you? The Digital Learning Team is made up of 12 people with a wide range of skills, expertise and interests. We challenge you to discover which of the team: is a Royal Television Society award winner went to

A screenshot from EdShare with the folder icon highlighted.

EdShare is the University’s institutional repository for learning resources, making them accessible by all members of the University. This is in contrast with resources uploaded to Blackboard, which can only be viewed by students enrolled on the relevant module. Staff and students

A graphic showing four students, graded with percentages 51% (- 12), 68% (+ 68), 63% (+ 0), 70% (+ 7). Text above reads "Rewarding contributions but the average remains the same".

30 June 20175 July 2023

22 June 201715 August 2023

Case study

The ability to work as part of a team is an essential skill for graduates, and most programmes include opportunities for students to develop it through participation in group projects. This is not always an easy experience for students who are used to individual assignments, and there are often tensions around communication and contribution. In particular, students are very unhappy if team members perceived as ‘free-loaders’ get the same shared grade as those who have done all the work.

9 June 201715 August 2023

Final year medical student Callum Taylor led this month’s e-coffee@SGH session, with an inspiring look at some of the tools, projects and platforms that can help engage students. It was packed full of useful tips and information and showcased some

Screenshot of ThingLink user interface, showing a video of seabirds being added to an image.

Case study, Creating content

New technologies have simplified the creation of immersive learning experiences, for example virtual field-trips.

26 May 201715 August 2023

16 May 201715 August 2023

(Scott Border @ SGH, 2017) May’s e-coffee@SGH was all about making videos and had one of the best turnouts with attendees getting excited to see Dr Scott Border from Anatomy within Medicine discussing his journey creating podcasts and videos for

Now into its fifth year, the 2017 Blackboard & VLE Awards competition has seen an increasing number of courses supported by exemplary use and design of their virtual learning environment. This year’s awards event featured a mix of familiar and new faces:

3 May 201715 August 2023

22 March 201715 August 2023

Students have contributed a record number of nominations for this year’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, sharing valuable feedback about what is most useful in a course site. It is evident that many courses offer students a fantastic online learning experience alongside the

A behind-the-scenes view of shooting an outreach video. A male and female colleague are being filmed having a discussion, seated at a desk with documents in front of them.