There will be an opportunity to meet the people who led the successful BYOD4L course and find out how to run one yourself at the next MELSIG event hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University on 14th April Again the special focus for the event is Smart Device Learning. Be warned, it is now nearly full! Free registration here.
MELSIG has launched a new book project and you are invited to take part. More information is on this page under publications: https://melsig.shu.ac.uk/melsig/?page_id=503
HEA STEM: SmiLE! Smart Learning Environments for Smart Teaching Date: 21 Mar 2014 Start Time: 12:00 pm Location/venue: Sheffield Hallam University, Aspect Court, City Campus, Howard Street Sheffield Smart technologies can promote autonomy, flexibility and innovation where individual academics are open to recognising and exploring the opportunity. Creative academic practitioners, using personal tablets and apps, are able to…
We invite you to take part in our Media Enhanced Learning webinar series to share your ideas, practice and experience. MELSIG is running the series during Semester 2 2014 to reflect our broader interests around the innovative use of digital media for learning. We aim to run the webinars as 50 minute lunchtime sessions made…
The course runs over five days online from 27th to 31st January 2014. We expect participants to spend between 1 and 3 hours on each of those days in the typical model, but the course can be adapted to fit to different schedules especially where a more blended approach is being taken. 1. Awareness –…
Announcing a free new short course from MELSIG Dear colleague, We hope you had a wonderful break and the New Year started well for you. We would like to bring the following to your attention: The Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group is offering the ‘Bring Your Own Device for Learning’ course (or short BYOD4L) 27-31…
Following the success of the two previous MELSIG Special Focus events on how smart devices and apps can be used to enhance learning (#1 Sheffield and #2 Huddersfield), we are planning a third event with the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/) and the Leaning Innovation Unit (http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/) at Manchester Metropolitan University on…
I thought it would be useful to add links to the last two New Media Consortium/EDUCAUSE Horizon Reports . If you are not familiar will these reports, they set out proposals for emerging technologies that innovative educators should be paying attention to. The 2012 report highlights Mobile Apps for learning The 2013 report highlights Tablet…
A View the story “#MELSIG Huddersfield University”Storify account from Liz Hannaford captured the day at the second Smart Device for Learning event on 6th September.
Plenary discussion at the second MELSIG event on Smart Devices for Learning