Education Day Success
Education Day on 20th April 2010 attracted 246 particpants who attended keynote lectures and a drop-in exhibition that ran for most of the day.
Exhibition stands from the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Facutly of Engineering and the Business School were there to provide insights and demonstrations on a myriad of teaching technologies.
The Faculty of Medicine featured game-based learning through the use of Second Life to treat virtual patients and the use of the e-portfolio system , PebblePad, by Year 2 medical students during their clinical attachment.
Demonstrating PebblePad e-portfolio system
Representatives from the Library and ICT were on hand to promote the use of TurnItIn, a plagiarism detection tool used by the College. The Faculty of Natural Sciences highlighted the use of teaching tools like e-Beam, response clickers and METRIC, the mathematical resource tool available for students in Blackboard.
Faculty of Medicine e-Learning Team
Parallel sessions on subjects such as e-Portfolios, TurnItIn, clickers, etc., were presented along with keynote lectures from Prof Diana Laurillard and Anthony McClaran which made up the day's programme.
Echo 360, a video streaming capture system used by the Faculty of Medicine and the Business School,was used to record some of the presentations with them being made available online (see side bar for direct links).
The day was particularly valuable for administrators, academics as well as other leanring technologists who may not be aware of the various tools and technologies available throughout the College.
Photos courtesy of Andy Pritchard; Faculty of Medicine e-Learning Team photo courtesy of Peter Wren.
