Why? ‘Assessment is a fundamental aspect of the student experience. Engagement in assessment activities and interaction with staff and peers enables learning, both as part…
Every year the third Thursday of May is the Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This year it falls on the 19th of May.
Completion tracking On Wednesday 26 January 2022, UCEM’s Virtual Learning Environment was updated to Moodle 3.11 and prior to this update, a change to a…
I’m pleased to have had a paper accepted for this year’s international Open Education (OER) Conference on the topic of sustainability and online learning. Open…
If you have earned a badge on Moodle platform you can view them by going to your profile. Dashboard > Preferences > Badges > Manage badges allow you to download the badges or view them.
Open badges can be offered automatically when certain criteria is fulfilled. If a badge is offered for a reflective piece would offering the badge automatically devalue the badge?
This year we were shortlisted for the accolade of ‘Learning Technology Team of the Year’ by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), which is the…
During the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown periods, we have had to embrace change, adapt to working from home, and learn new technologies. Upon reflection, whilst…
Following an earlier post Investigating new assessment technologies, UCEM has taken the decision to trial the Inspera assessment platform. The trial will take the form…
No technology will be able to make badly designed/created content accessible. In simple terms, for the assistive technologies to work, we need to create content that is accessible.