Plickers! Engage your students with learning technology
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Plickers (paper clickers) allow you to quiz up to 63 students with just one device, an app and a set of scannable Plicker cards. I recently used Plickers in a…
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Plickers (paper clickers) allow you to quiz up to 63 students with just one device, an app and a set of scannable Plicker cards. I recently used Plickers in a…
Set up a WordPress.com account. You may not have time to maintain a regular blog but that’s not to say you won’t benefit from an online space to call your…
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Inspired by the journal article Online Discussion Forums in Higher Education: Is ‘Lurking’ Working?, International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education Mazuro and Rao (2011), I will take a quick look at the…
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The internet is ‘where humanity is doing its stuff’ according to David White, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Arts who presented Learning and Teaching in the…
Is your university thinking about investing in its first Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to help streamline staff recruitment? Perhaps you’re looking to change systems? Putting together a shortlist of different…
Last week the jobs.ac.uk marketing team, including myself, attended the On the Edge Digital Marketing Conference organised by the UK Marketing Network in Birmingham. The conference provided a day packed…