Friday 16 November 2012

Two new CPD resources for staff allowing them to engage with Webinars, Live streaming and assistive technologies.

The CELT: Digitally Enhanced Learning team (CDEL) is pleased to announce the launch of two new online Continual Professional Development (CPD) resources which provide staff with free and open source tools to engage with two key activities, Webinars/Live streaming and Assistive technologies as outlined in the vision (embedded below).

In addition to these online resources, the CDEL team are also offering a series of "hands on" sessions to enable staff to experiment with these, and other technologies who's use they may wish to integrate into their teaching, research and other working practices.


Full details of these, and all the other sessions which are available to staff are viewable here.


If you are a member of staff within the University of Wales, Newport then you can access the two new resources by clicking on the links below.

Monday 12 November 2012

CELT: JISC Events



JISC RSC Wales Lunchtime Byte:
An Introduction to the People's Collection Wales website – Discover. Contribute. Share.

Tuesday, 27th November
12.30pm - 13.15pm
Location:  Online
Cost: Free

Further information and booking can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/d39ckz2

21st Century Learning Spaces. What are they and how do we create them?

This Free event will be of interest to teachers, estate managers and institutional senior leadership. Please forward to those who would benefit from attending.
City College Norwich has developed a new inspirational toolkit to help institutions through the process of visioning and creating 21st century Learning Spaces.

The conference is being offered at three locations.

Bookings are available via the appropriate link and close one week before the event
4th December – Newcastle.
Village Hotel, Cobalt Business Park, West Allotment, Newcastle upon Tyne

5th December –London
West One, 9-10 Portland Place, London W1B 1PR

6th December – Birmingham
Village Hotel & Leisure Club, Castlegate Park, Birmingham Road, Dudley, West Midlands

CDEL & The Psychology department team up to deliver data analysis and visualisation training for Newport staff.

As part of the CELT's ongoing commitment to providing continual professional development (CPD) opportunities for the University's staff and students, we are pleased to announce the launch of a series of free face to face workshops designed to provide staff with the confidence and competence to make full use of technology to analyse and visualise data which in turn will support their research activities.

Working in partnership with the university's Psychology department, CDEL is providing workshops focusing on statistical analysis and data management, focusing primarily on the use of SPSS and how its use can benefit staff in their teaching and research practises.
  • For more details on when the next workshops are running and how to attend please click here. 


Staff at the University of Wales, Newport tucking into some data filled pi.
Nom nom nom.

Friday 9 November 2012

CDEL Build Online Community for HOVEP




The CDEL team have been working with The Heads of The Valley's Education Programme (HOVEP) to develop them an on-line community of practice designed for education professionals in the local area.  The aim of the initiative has been to get educators communicating with each other and discussing effective teaching practices, it also provides an area where they can swap experiences and share useful resources, documents and links through blogging.  




CDEL are pleased to announce that the site has gone live today.
To get involved please Click here and fill out the registration form.
Set up your Blog http://www.blogger.com and start blogging!

Thursday 8 November 2012

CDEL supports new blended-learning Engineering Work-Based Learning Programme in Energy Management

The Engineering Work-Based Learning Programme in Energy Management is designed to give support to those responsible for, or wish to be involved with, energy management and related topic areas.  It will enable them to review, plan and introduce effective measures to improve their organisation’s energy efficiency and usage whilst reducing their Green House Gas emissions through a systematic approach.

The CELT's Digitally Enhanced Learning team (CDEL) have tailored training to meet the identified needs of the newly launched Engineering Work-Based Learning in Energy Management Programme team.  Early research by the team identified key training needs in the effective use of Moodle 2, where bespoke sessions for the team were provided to use the platform as part of their delivery strategy.

Further training needs were also identified in using the cloud-based resource 'Prezi'. As part of the Work-Based Learning delivery model, coupled with the need to engage businesses in fresh new ways, Prezi was deemed an ideal tool for the job. CDEL delivered a comprehensive training session which opened up many new and innovative ways of delivering presentations.

Programme Lecturer Stephen Biggs commented:
“CDELs friendly, knowledgeable and approachable demeanour has made the sessions extremely productive and useful.  I look forward to working with them in the future as the WBL programme develops. This will help the team deliver module content in innovative and effective ways, meeting the contemporary blended learning approach of a 21st Century HE learning and teaching environment.”
If you'd like more information about the Energy Management course, please email:  Eng.WBLProjectTeam@newport.ac.uk

Engineering WBL  Programme Team
L-R - Stephen Biggs, Valerie Embleton, Chris Gledhill

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Teaching with Tablets - A new resource for staff teaching at the University of Wales, Newport

The CELT: Digitally Enhanced Learning (CDEL) team is pleased to announce the launch of a new "Teaching with Tablets" online resource which is now available to staff.

This new resource contains links to websites which educators can use to integrate the use of tablet computers, such as the iPad & Google Nexus 7, into their teaching, research and administrative roles.

University of Wales, Newport staff can access the new resource by clicking on the link below and then selecting the "Teaching with tablets" icon when it appears on screen.