Plickers! Engage your students with learning technology
Sally Burr -
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…
Category > Digital Technology
How to Create an Academic Website for Free!
Sally Burr -
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…
MOOC for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Sally Burr -
MOOCs or ‘Massive OpenOnline Courses’ provide an opportunity to learn for free. They have been given a good press, followed by a rather bad press. However, I think there is a…
Digital Skills: What Are They And How Are Yours?
Sally Burr -
The term ‘digital skills’ is frequently referred to both inside and outside of higher education. What does it really mean, and how can we judge if we are digitally literate/capable,…
The Value Of Lurking
Sally Burr -
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…
Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
jobs.ac.uk careers -
Back in the olden days, i.e. 10 years ago, gathering research material meant photocopying endless journal articles and storing them in lever-arch files. For those of us who view admin…
How To Prevent Social Media Overload
jobs.ac.uk careers -
Top Time-Saving Tools To help you identify how you can use digital tools to enhance your research and career to give you a competitive advantage, jobs.ac.uk held a live 60-minute…
A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
Sally Burr -
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…
Top questions you should ask a university Applicant Tracking System provider
Carl Freelove -
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…
Augmented reality for university recruitment?
Carl Freelove -
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…
