Jane Secker

About Jane Secker

Digital Literacy and Copyright Advisor at LSE's Centre for Learning Technology

Learning Technology Innovation Grants: Summer Term

We are extending the deadline for the Learning Technology Innovation Grants this term until Monday 19th May at 5pm.

This fund can be used for a variety of learning technology developments. We are looking to attract academics who are interested in teaching innovations. We are particularly interested in the following areas:

The use of video and multimedia in teaching
Using technologies to innovate assessment and feedback practices
Changing your classroom teaching
Developing digital literacies

Find out more from the LTIG webpage or get in touch with clt-support@lse.ac.uk if you have any queries.

May 15th, 2014|LTI Grants, Teaching & Learning|Comments Off|

Piirus: the researcher networking tool

Would you like to be one of the first LSE researchers to receive an invitation to join Piirus, the new researcher networking website? CLT and the Library are working with the University of Warwick who developed this tool for their own staff initially but it is now being released on a limited basis to several other institutions, including LSE.

Piirus is a free service that helps you collaborate by putting you in touch with researchers with expertise on a specific topic or technique. If you want to make contacts, or find a collaborator, within your field or from a different discipline, then Piirus is a tool to help you get in touch. More details available on the Piirus website.

200 LSE invites will be sent out from 19^th May 2014. You will automatically receive 10 invites when you sign up, and can invite researchers from any institution. LSE PhD students and researchers should complete this form if you would like to receive an invitation.

May 9th, 2014|Research Skills|Comments Off|

Copyright briefing: report from event

I attended the CILIP Executive Briefing on copyright this week to get a heads up on the proposed changes to copyright exceptions that we hope will come into force on 1st June 2014. If you would like to read the longer report on my blog, you can find out more about the day. CLT will ensure that staff are made aware of the changes and how they might affect copying they do for private study and research, for teaching and other purposes. However the Statutory Instruments and guidance is available on the Intellectual Property Office’s website.

April 3rd, 2014|copyright|Comments Off|

Going Mobile: the ongoing story of HEC Executive Education

Gerta Karageorgi from the LSE Project Management Office writes about attending an LSE NetworkED seminar earlier this week.

On Wednesday 5^th February 2014, Karine Le Joly, Director of Innovation and Academic Coordination for Executive programmes at HEC Paris (Hautes études commerciales de Paris), made a day trip on the Eurostar to LSE to present the 8^th NetworkED: Technology in Education session. It was a topic I was keen to learn more about, having spent a day the previous week attending 7 brief seminars on mobile technology at the Learning technologies exhibition at Kensington Olympia, London.

February 7th, 2014|Events & Workshops (LTI), NetworkED, TEL Trends|Comments Off|

Two NetworkED seminars this term

We’re really pleased to announce two NetworkED Seminars coming up this term at LSE, now available to book. On Wednesday 22nd January we have Dr Sylvester Arnab from the Serious Games Institute at Coventry University speaking about games and learning. In his talk, entitled Games, Learning and Beyond, he will discuss using game science and technology to support teaching and learning. He’ll also look at the role of games in conjunction with pedagogic innovations such as MOOCs and flipping lectures.

Our second seminar this term will be from Karine Le Joly, who is the Director of Innovation and Academic Coordination for Executive Education programs at HEC Paris. In her talk entitled ‘Going Mobile‘ She will be speaking about mobile initiatives and integrating the use of iPads into curricula and pedagogy.

Both seminars are open to LSE staff and students, and also to external guests. They will also be live streamed and recorded. We anticipate both sessions will be very popular so for further information and to secure your place, see the NetworkED website.

January 9th, 2014|NetworkED|Comments Off|

First NetworkED Seminar: What the little birdy tells me

Our first event in the new run of NetworkED seminars is going to take the form of a workshop, run by Martin Hawksey. It is entitled ‘What the Little Birdy tells me: Twitter in Education.’ This workshop will explore some educational ‘Twitter hacks’ which cover a wide range of activities from a free SMS broadcast system, Twitter for classroom voting and the application of social network analysis to for mining Twitter for actionable insights. As part of this participants will be shown a range of free and open source tools to assist in Twitter data collection and analysis including the Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS) and NodeXL. For more information visit our CLT webpage for the event.

Date: Wednesday 13th November

Time: 15.00-16.30

LSE staff can book online: https://apps.lse.ac.uk/training-system/userBooking/course/7376384

Externals very welcome: No booking is required to watch the live stream, simply visit the event page at 3pm next Wednesday. If you would like to attend in person then please email: g.veschini@lse.ac.uk

Twitter: use the hashtag #LSENetED for comments & questions. Martin’s handle is @mhawksey

November 7th, 2013|Events & Workshops (LTI), NetworkED|Comments Off|

Research Data Management: new course at LSE

Research Data Management: Introduction to Concepts and Practices is a new hour long training session being run by colleagues in the Library on Friday 25th October at 10:30 in the training room of the Library – LRB.R08.

This session introduces some of the main principles of research data management. It includes orientation to this approach to creating and working with research data, as well as a consideration of its effective use in research.

A mix of discussion and practical activities will allow participants to reflect on their own research needs. There will be opportunities to discuss data management planning, curating data, sharing data and related ethical and legal responsibilities. The growing importance of research data management in funding applications is also addressed.

There will be potential for future sessions aimed at particular research departments, or even projects, subject to interest from participants. If you are interested please book a place through the LSE Training System.

October 17th, 2013|Research Skills|Comments Off|

October festival of learning

It’s October, term has started again, and CLT have an exciting range of workshops coming up in the next few weeks. These include sessions in the Learning Technology, Digital Literacy and Researcher Development programmes. Follow the hyperlinks to book now.

Flipping Lectures, 18^th October, 11am-12.30pm
Poster Presentations: An introduction for PhD students, 22^nd October, 2-4pm
Finding and using digital media for teaching, 25^th October, 12-1.30pm
Using blogs, wikis and other social media for teaching, 28^th October, 1-2.30pm
Copyright, the Internet and teaching online, 29^th October, 12-1.30pm

And there’s also our usual Moodle training running this month. You can choose from the sessions below. Follow the hyperlinks to book.

Moodle Basics, 8^th, October, 2-4pm
Moodle Basics, 16^th October, 2-4pm
Moodle Next Steps, 17^th October, 2-4pm
Moodle Basics, 24^th October, 10am-12pm
Moodle Next Steps, 31^st October, 10am-12pm

If you have any questions about the training we provide please contact: clt-support@lse.ac.uk

October 7th, 2013|Announcements, Events & Workshops (LTI)|Comments Off|

iMeet: reflecting on the use of tablets and mobiles for learning

Last Friday we held a second iMeet event, to explore the use of tablets and mobiles in teaching and learning. The session was facilitated by the Centre for Learning Technology and we were keen to stress we were there to learn as much as the participants. We started by presenting some brief stats on smartphone and tablet ownership amongst students as indicated by the LSE IMT Survey this year. It’s high, with 92% of student having a smartphone. We then divided the room into three groups, facilitated by myself, Sonja and Jo to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using these devices in a teaching and learning context. Below is a summary of the discussions in each of the groups. We also shared some favourite apps and provided a list of further reading, which I’ve included in this blog post.

August 6th, 2013|Teaching & Learning, Tools & Technologies|2 Comments|

Reading lists and Moodle: exciting changes

Over the last five months the Library has been working on converting reading lists to the new Reading Lists @ LSE system. This new tool works alongside Moodle to provide students and teachers an intuitive, consistent, and easy-to-use way of displaying and managing reading lists.

Why are LSE doing this? The Reading Lists @ LSE system offers benefits in three main areas:

For students it offers a more consistent experience. The overall interface and experience of reading lists is consistent across different courses and departments – while still allowing teachers to structure individual lists in whatever way they choose. Students are presented with a visually clear and intuitive display, which also provides a number of useful additional functions – including quick links directly to electronic versions of readings; up-to-date information about Library holdings; and tools for annotating and organizing their study. Feedback from students has been universally popular…

For teachers and administrators it’s a simple but powerful tool for compiling and editing reading lists. Teachers can grab references and citations from around the web, without the need to copy and paste or transcribe bibliographic information. Stable and reliable link through to Ejournals, ebooks, and online recordsare created automatically. CLT have updated the web pages about Reading Lists in Moodle with further information.

August 1st, 2013|Announcements, Teaching & Learning, Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|