Tagged: elearning

Digital Learning Spaces:  Lessons from the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh

Digital Learning Spaces: Lessons from the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh

Digital Learning Spaces: Lessons from the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh  Jen Ross, University of Edinburgh Monday, April 15 Noon – 1:30 PM Seattle Pacific University Library Seminar Room Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitalspaces Every course design is philosophy and belief in action.  This is no less true – indeed it may be truer […]

Can using a tool like Google+ lead to the death of the LMS?

This summer I have enjoyed using Google+ in place of Blackboard‘s Discussion tool in two courses that I am teaching.  Students were able to interact with each other, chat with participants in another course, and even learn with real-world education experts like +Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz and +Larry Ferlazzo. An LMS (e.g. Blackboard) “protects” students by letting them only […]

Framework formatting on your blog

Framework formatting on your blog

Here is an example on how to utilize the built in classes found within the Genesis Framework. This example uses the two column layout. <h3>Two-Columns</h3> <div class=”one-half first”>This is an example of a WordPress post, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. […]

the manifesto is going to Vegas

the manifesto is going to Vegas

Reblogged from manifesto for teaching online: and we’re going with it! We’ve been invited to run an afternoon ‘unconference’ workshop at the end of the Sloan-C/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning conference in Las Vegas on 27 July. Jen will be there in person, and Hamish, Clara and Sian will be collaborating at a distance. […]

Great example of Teaching Game Design with a game

Great example of Teaching Game Design with a game

Alex Peake, founder of Primer Labs is doing it right. A colleague of mine mentioned Code Hero to me the other day and after a little googling I was hooked. Code Hero is a game that teaches you how to make games.. you learn by shooting actual Javascript in Unity, at objects to alter your […]

eLearning Blog

eLearning Blog

We just recently moved the elearning services blog from blogger over to the wordpress environment on Campus. While there are a few options disabled for “security” reasons and only a select few themes avaliable at the time of this post, our blog space is looking really nice. We plan on using it as a main area to help communicate to our […]