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With a rapidly-growing community of over 130 million users worldwide, Moodle is the world’s most widely used learning platform. With open-source Moodle, you receive robust functionality, top-notch support, and the flexibility you need to meet your educational goals. Watch the webinar recording below to learn how Moodle is being used in colleges and universities to improve educational outcomes. During the session, you will learn: Why Moodle is the world's most widely used LMS... The advantages of open-source technology and the Moodle ecosystem About the features that colleges and universities are using to organize their online education and engage students How you can utilize analytics, time-saving integrations (including real-time SIS integrations), and unlimited support to optimize processes within your institution How Moodle's community-driven platform, combined with eThink's tailored customer support and powerful integrations, provide a refreshingly simple and flexible solution to meet specific institutional needs

One way to increase engagement in online learning is to present your learning materials in engaging ways. H5P is a free plugin that allows you to create, share, and reuse interactive content within your LMS. In this 30-minute Lambda Lab, we’ll go over how to Enhance your training programs with stunning visuals and interactivity have been shown to motivate learners, improve retention rates and boost engagement using H5P. When this webinar is over you will have learned... What H5P is and how to use it to improve learning outcomes All the different H5P content types How to use H5P basic but powerful content creation features Simply click on the link below to access the recording and slides.

Adaptive Learning is the delivery of custom learning experiences that address the unique needs of individual learners through just-in-time feedback, pathways, and resources. The goal behind Adaptive Learning is to create a more personal learning pathway for end users, thus increasing engagement in learning processes. By the time this 30-minute webinar is done, you’ll have learned how: To be able to define Adaptive Learning and identify best practices in eLearning To use data to drive adaptive learning To leverage activity features in your LMS (Moodle) to create an adaptive learning experience

​The new digital accessibility regulations became law in September 2018​.  This includes all resources you add to Moodle.  A quick checklist​ has been produced by University of Huddersfield that you might find interesting. Also you may not be aware of the accessibility checker function within Microsoft office.

Use this handy guide to help you understand different types of plagiarism. The Plagiarism Spectrum identifies ten types of plagiarism based on findings from a worldwide survey of nearly 900 secondary and higher education instructors. Each type has been given an easy-to-remember moniker to help students and instructors better identify and discuss the ramifications of plagiarism in student writing. Download the Plagiarism Spectrum poster​ to post in your classroom and help students to better understand the different types of plagiarism. Note: If you suspect plagiarism you should refer to the College’s Dealing with Malpractice Procedure.

All learners crave interaction, whether in face-to-face settings or in online environments, and research shows that interaction can increase learning and lessen the psychological distance involved in online learning. Designing and implementing interactive online learning experiences often requires strategic planning.  We’ll look at setting outcomes, provide questions to review current course design and explore options for increasing engagement through interaction. This 30-minutes Master Class will explore ways to increase interaction between learners and their instructors, content and other learners using course design, features and blocks in Moodle and Totara Learn. During the presentation, two handouts that would be handy for you all to have were mentioned! We have them linked them in here for your reference: Handout 1 - How to Use Interaction to Drive Engagement and Learning Outcomes: Follow-up Handout 2 - Driving Engagement with Interactivity Questions for Review

Want to work on your Digital Skills? From mechanics to 3D modelling, plumbing to programming, get the digital skills you need with these specially designed courses from Accenture. There are 7 free Digital Skills courses on the Future Learn platform.  These courses are between 2-3 weeks in length, 1-2 hours a week.  The courses are found on the futurelearn website https://www.futurelearn.com/accenture ​These courses are completely free for anyone to undertake - not just people associated with the college.

The Australian National University (ANU) recently launched Mahara ePortfolio as a new tool for academic and professional development. To coincide with its launch, the team at ANU Online ran a 'Coffee Course' introducing portfolio learning and ePortfolio. Their Coffee Courses are short, online, and open access courses (requiring up to 15 minutes a day) covering topics in educational technology, teaching online, digital tools, pedagogy, or trends in technology. In the ePortfolio Coffee Course, you are introduced to pedagogical benefits of portfolio learning, provided with  examples of ePortfolios used in higher education, and will discuss risk factors and affordances of the technology. This very short course would be of value to anyone thinking of using Mahara with their class but is not quite sure how to start. #mahara #coffebreaktraining #eportfolio

I am pleased to inform you that staff at WCS have access to Glow – a fantastic digital learning environment giving you access to a wide range of educational resources, as well as social and collaborative tools. Visit the Learning Technology Staff intranet page to see information on how to activate/access your Glow account. WCS students not not have access to Glow. That said, it does contain some great tools and features which will doubtlessly be of use to you. You can find more information on Glow at https://connect.glowscotland.org.uk/ Please do not hesitate to contact the learning technology team at learningtech@wcs.ac.uk should you have any issues gaining access to your account. #inspiration #tips #GLOW