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The recording of the TEPL seminar with Hans De Zwart from Shell held on Jan 31 2013, is now available at the link:

http://gcal.adobeconnect.com/r6oq57qljtc/

Hans has also written about his visit to the Caledonian Aacdemy at his blog here:…

At the TEPL Seminar 12 Professor Tobias Ley, Center for Educational Technology (CET), Tallinn University in Estonia discussed 'Scaling technologies for informal workplace learning' and Dr Colin Milligan, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, disucussed 'Supporting goal formation, sharing and learning of knowledge workers'. The recording of the seminar is available in two parts:

Part 1…

In the TEPL webinar held on December 10, 2012,  Evelyn McElhinney discussed the use of virtual worlds in preparing students for the professional world. You can find the recording of the webinar at the following link:…

The recording of the TEPL seminar Dr Katie Vale from Harvard University held on 5th of Oct 2012, is now available at the link:

http://gcal.adobeconnect.com/p4hbm72eny6/

You can download the slides here: Seminar 11 (Katie Vale).pptx

Many…

As part of a HEFCE Review into OER funded initiatives we have created a very short survey (less than 5 minutes) which aims to elicit a snapshot view of some initiatives that explore and support Open Educational Practices (OEP) and more specifically Open Educational Resources (OER). We invite you to take part in this brief survey - whether or not you feel you know anything about or are involved in OER.…

The recording of the TEPL Webinar 2 with Isobel Falconer and Lou McGill held on 21st of February is now available at the link:

http://gcal.adobeconnect.com/p3xtnq9hrqm/

You cna also check more of the discussion and resoruces from the webianar at the OER EValuation adn Synthesis blog here.

Have a nice and…

On the 16^th of December 2011 we held the TEPL Challenge 8 seminar at the University of Brighton,  with Professor Els Boshuizen, CELSTEC, Open University of the Netherlands as the keynote speaker. The topic of the seminar was ‘Theoretical perspectives on professional learning ‘.

Here you can find the recording of the keynote seminar (the first few minutes of the presentation are missing…

Dear TEPL members,

I am Nino Pataraia, a PhD candidate at the Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University. I am researching how networks support academics in changing their teaching practices and learning about different educational practices.

If you are an academic teaching in a UK-based university, I would like to invite you to participate in a survey "Your Personal Networks" which can be accessed at…

Hi All,

Nancy Davies and myself were fortunate enough to receive a small grant from TEPL earlier in 2011 to create mobile apps from our series of educational CPD resources LITE BITEs.( http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/prof_dev/free.html) Thank you TEPL! We are going to create a "how to make your own short educational app" guide which will be available on the TEPL website and also host a free workshop here at the…

We have successfully organised our first webinar on August the 19th. Dr Keith Smyth offered interesting ideas around the work on professional development and technology support. The webinar stimulated a great deal of discussion from the participants. You can access the recording of the webinar here

tp://gcal.adobeconnect.com/p5knwmj2tgv/

You…

We had very interesting discussions following Julie Clow’s presentation on June 28^th at GCU. We discussed the use of concepts and tools used in Google for issues we had in our work. The brainstorming process was very tight and structured where we had only 2 minutes to explain our issue and the 2 minutes for feedback and suggestions from other members of the group. Only after that we could enter a wider discussion. This approach, although very time constrained proved to be very…

The Learning in the Cloud approach that was presented by Julie Clow was an innovative approach to learning in general. The idea to use everyday tools and distributed bite-size learning was both simple and impressive.

The whole approach makes very effective use of the intrinsic motivators as set out by Dan Pink (see http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html). The main ones that he mentions…

Google Cloud learning  talk given by Julie Clow, Learning and Organisational Development Manager, Google, San Francisco, USA, inspired and triggered many ideas among the members of audience.

Having an interactive group after talk session was an amazing way for sharing all these new insights with people of different academic backgrounds. My group came up with Google Mob peer-to-peer learning tool design with focus on two main stream learning groups: undergraduates and PhD…

'Please check out the ORIOLE project survey forwarded bellow if you are interested:

DO YOU USE ONLINE RESOURCES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING?

ORIOLE (Open Resources: Influence on Learners and Educators) (http://orioleproject.blogspot.com ) would like to hear from educators that create/use/reuse online resources (even if use is…

Over the past year we have been working with SIG participants and Steering Group members to identify how we can establish a sustainable SIG that meets the needs of the sector. In 2010, during post-event discussions with some participants, it became clear that the SIG needs a clearer focus. This is particularly important since 'focus' and 'branding' have been significant success factors for other SIGs associated with the HEA (eg ELESIG). A problem we…

Other people have blogged about our latest Challenege 4: Learning for the Future event in additon to various tweets being posted about #TEPL

George Siemens's blog

Sheila's Work…

We had an excellent presentation and discussion from George Siemens today during our Challenge 4 SSeLF event at Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University. Despite travel problems, around 20 people attended

the event and around 50 colleagues, in Europe, Australasia, Asia and America,

participated…