Education and research news, views and commentary from the team at the University of the Built Environment
Yesterday we (Marieke Guy and Tharindu Liyangunawardena) facilitated a session at the ALT annual conference on ‘Making your mind up: Formalising the evaluation of learning technologies’. ALT session The session began by taking a look at the impact on…
Assessments matter to students. They are a way to demonstrate knowledge and mastery, and provide an invaluable learning experience. In 2020 due to necessity UCEM…
Have you been to a presentation where the presenter went on and on without really thinking of their audience? Have you been that presenter? Increasingly,…
This article is reposted from Tharindu’s MOOCs Blog This piece of work looks at Emergency Remote Education (ERE) in Sri Lanka during the Covid-19…
When we embarked on the production of our new Level 4 module on Digital Technologies for the Built Environment we saw an opportunity to develop…
In our Accessibility: Basics webinar series at UCEM, many participants ask questions about creating accessible presentations. Many Microsoft users utilise PowerPoint software to create slides…
Reflecting on my first experience of working on a UCEM Baseline+ module.
As work begins on the implementation of the UCEM assessment strategy (2020-2025) we are beginning to think creatively about new assessment methodologies appropriate for the…
Yesterday at the Online Learning Research Centre meeting, we launched the second survey of our eLearning in Challenging Times UK study available at https://ucem.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/elearning-in-challenging-times-comparison-uk. eLearning…
Today I ran the first Accessibility Awareness: Basics webinar, first of a series of webinars intended to fill the gap left by abandoning our in…