Digital Experience Insights of New Zealand students
“Australian and New Zealand students made extensive use of digital technologies in their independent study.” (p. 6)
“Almost two thirds of [Aus & NZ] students still used university desktops and printers.” (p. 8)
“More [Aus and NZ] students disagreed than agreed with the proposition that their university looked after their personal data.” (p.10)
To learn more get the full report: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/survey-results-benchmark-students-attitude-to-technology-in-teaching-and-learning-13-feb-2019from JISC in the UK.
Free Image Resources
Adding images to learning resources can help with learning, but legally usable images can be hard to find …
Check these posts for some sources and information about legal use: Finding Images on the Web and CC-BY or CC-BY-NC
Today, the tweet above caught my eye.
The site: https://redstagfulfillment.com/free-stock-photo-resources/ profiled, lists 85 other sites that collect images.
I haven’t looked at all of them for medically related images.
As you look at a site feel free to comment here about the value, or otherwise, of the collection for medical education purposes.
CC BY or CC-BY-NC
- How can I use an image labelled CC BY? What about CC BY-ND?
- Which one should I apply to my work?
- What do these acronyms mean?
Creative Commons (CC) licences are assigned by creators (authors, artists etc) to their work. The CC licence makes it easier to share copyrighted work by defining the conditions of use for that work. Continue reading
University supported online learning
Do you want to learn more about educational, office, business, or hobby software?
Where do you go?
The University has made access to Lynda.com free through ITS. Continue reading
Blogging and Tweeting in Higher Education
Are you using blogging for education, pedagogy, research?
Would you like to participate in a Twitter Conference?
PressEDConf18 is the place to be …
Contributions due 23 February 2018.
Conference starts 2200h 29 March 2018 (1000h 29 March 2018 British Summer Time)
Participate by following the hashtag #pressedconf18
More info at https://pressedconf.org/
Want some help setting up Twitter? Contact Sarah Gallagher ( sarah.gallagher@otago.ac.nz ), Sam White ( samuel.white@otago.ac.nz ), or your local eLearning ELF.
12 Apps of Christmas
The 12 apps of Christmas are back, the year must be almost done!!
This (free) short course will show you 12 apps, and how to use them for learning, teaching, or professional purposes.
You’ll get 10-minute tasks to help you get started with the day’s app.
Follow the hashtag: #UL12apps to see the learning, share your learning, and follow your fellow learners.
Sign up here: https://ul12apps.wordpress.com/sign-up/
More info here: https://ul12apps.wordpress.com/
Mobile Apps for Learning and Teaching
Join the free, open, short, online, course: The 12 Apps of Christmas. For 12 (weekdays) learn about a different mobile app, how it is being used by an educator, and how their students reacted to the app.
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