Next colloquium
Wednesday, 31 August at 3 pm
Niall Barr (Glasgow)
What a learning technology developer can do for you
In this talk I will introduce my role as a learning technology developer by describing some of my current and recent projects. These include YACRS, a classroom response system which was widely used at the University prior to lockdown, an experimental Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) tool, which has a lot of potential for both fair marking and peer evaluation, and, ErysNotes, a simple Python notebook application that runs on a fairly standard Web server, and which is particularly appropriate for introductory courses.
I will also describe some tools I have been working on to improve the efficiency and quality of teaching video production.
A major advantage of internally developed tools such as days is that they can be adapted to suit the needs of different lecturers relatively quickly, and are driven by pedagogy rather than marketing interests. I will be keen to hear any ideas for improvements to the existing tools.
I will discuss how close collaboration between lecturers and the developer leads to significantly better outcomes for learning technology, and how working with the learning technology developer can also help the lecturer with Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoTL).
One of my areas of interest is interoperability standards for education, and I will also discuss how making use of open standards can improve sustainability and flexibility of educational material.
Colloquia 2021/22
2021
Date |
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Speaker |
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Video link |
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17/11/2021 |
3 pm GMT |
Iacopo Carusotto (Università di Trento) |
Quantum Fluids of Light |
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1/12/2021 |
3 pm GMT |
Christopher Monahan (William & Mary) |
Peering inside the proton |
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15/12/2021 |
3 pm GMT |
Janet Anders (Exeter) |
tba |
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2022
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Video link |
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26/1/2022 |
3 pm GMT |
Hannah Price (Birmingham) |
Quantum Simulation with Synthetic Dimensions |
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09/2/2022 |
3 pm GMT |
Tom Hayward (Sheffield) |
From Stochasticity to Functionality: Harnessing Magnetic Domain Walls for Probabilistic and Neuromorphic Computingtba |
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27/4/2022 |
3 pm BST |
Chabdralekha Singh (Pittsburgh) |
Facilitating thinking and learning in and beyond the physics classrooms using research-validated pedagogies and tools | |
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24/8/22 |
3 pm BST |
Emily Nordmann (Glasgow) |
The place and case for lectures and lecture capture in the new normal | Stream link |
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32/8/22 |
3 pm BST |
Niall Barr (Glasgow) |
What a learning technology developer can do for you |
General information
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Until further notice colloquia will be given remotely via Zoom and owing to speakers being in different parts of the world the time of the colloquia may vary with the time zone the speaker is in.
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Contact
Questions? Comments? Speaker suggestions?
Please use the dedicated padlet to leave your comment or contact Dr Jörg Götte
Joerg.Goette@Glasgow.ac.uk
Kelvin Building
Room 523
Ext 7563
