by Elizabeth Ellis | Apr 3, 2017 | posts |
Partnerships with students in curriculum development give the OU the chance to co-create and co-design engaging learning and teaching experiences with them. For students it provides the opportunity to have a direct impact on early development work and to experience professional engagement with a large institution, which may be used as evidence of collaborative professional experience in portfolios, job applications or continuing professional development.
by Elizabeth Ellis | Dec 12, 2016 | posts |
EDUCAUSE 2016 in Anaheim was a really valuable and thought provoking experience, especially as a stranger in a strange land. This article is a reflection on the three things that stood out for me from EDUCAUSE – where the US Higher Education sector is ahead, where the UK Higher Education sector is ahead, and where we are about level.
by Elizabeth Ellis | May 11, 2016 | posts |
Hack Days: a case study I’m Liz Ellis, and together with my colleague David Vince, we organised and ran the Open University’s first Staff-Student Hack Day in January 2016. David and I are product development managers in the Technology Enhanced Learning...
by Elizabeth Ellis | May 5, 2016 | posts |
So, how the heck do you run a Hack Day? If engagement with staff and students is a continuum, surveys and consultation can often end up on the passive end of the scale. Too easily, even workshops, which belong on the more actively productive end of the scale can...
by Elizabeth Ellis | Apr 19, 2016 | posts |
Is HE getting the kind of institutional leadership it needs to to give academic and support staff the time and resources to explore new tools and strategies to engage our students in digital spaces?
by Elizabeth Ellis | Feb 15, 2016 | Designing Online Learning for the Future, posts |
View keynotes and clips from the Designing Online Learning for the Future event.