Academic Technology news and updates
This page contains updates about new technologies or developments in current technologies and information about TEL events that you might find useful.
Using social media for maths and statistics support
This event was held at Staffordshire University at their Stoke on Trent Campus in Wednesday 27th June 2018 and was organised by the Sigma Network.
Wireless network outages
There will be brief outages to the wireless network service between 6am - 7am on Tuesday 28th August – Friday 31 August and on Monday 3rd September.
Moodle unavailable Tuesday 17th July 2018
Tuesday 17th July 2018 is the confirmed date for the annual Moodle upgrade. Moodle will be upgraded to version 3.4.
Exploring critical pedagogy in digital education – 20th June 2018
The Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University organised an event looking at critical digital pedagogies and practice. They argued that digital environments often provide more questions than answers and that enquiry into how to teach online (not just how to upload content into the VLE) is key.
Digifest 2018
This two-day event took place in the International Convention Centre in Birmingham in March and explored ‘the power of digital’.