Integrating Flickr-based Images into Moodle to Increase Visual Appeal and Dynamism of Teaching Spaces

Ian Glover

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 768–772

Images have long been shown to be an important tool for both learning and helping to develop community; in fact, there is at least one well-known English proverb that attests to this. One reason is that, used well, an image can remove the ambiguity...

SCOF: A Standardised, Customisable Online Feedback Tool

Ian Glover

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1805–1812

Increasing pressures on staff, combined with increased requests for feedback from students mean that there is less time to do more things. Investigation into potential methods to assist the staff of the School of Engineering and Mathematical...

Play As You Learn: Gamification as a Technique for Motivating Learners

Ian Glover

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 1999–2008

Motivation can sometimes be a problem for learners, especially when they do not find the purpose of a learning activity to be clear. Gamification is a recent concept, primarily from the web development industry, that can make learning activities...

Investigating Perceptions and Potential of Open Badges in Formal Higher Education

Ian Glover; Farzana Latif

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 1398–1402

Open Badges are a method, proposed by the Mozilla Foundation, to recognise skill acquisition and ‘informal’ learning, particularly as part of Lifelong Learning. However, there is also significant potential in the formal education sector. This paper...

Exploring the Transformative Potential of Bluetooth Beacons in Higher Education

Kieran McDonald; Ian Glover

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 24, No. 1 (2016)

The growing ubiquity of smartphones and tablet devices integrated into personal, social and professional life, facilitated by expansive communication networks globally, has the potential to disrupt higher education. Academics and students are...

Hybridisation of Social Networking and Learning Environments

Ian Glover; Andrew Oliver

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4951–4958

Over the past few years there has been a dramatic increase in Online Social Networking, both in terms of the number of web sites that offer this service and the number of users of those sites. A key aspect of Online Social Networks is that the...

Topics: Virtual Environments

Digital Places: Location-based Digital Practices in Higher Education using Bluetooth Beacons

Ian Glover; Kieran McDonald

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 950–959

The physical campus is a shared space that enables staff and students, industry and the public, to collaborate in the acquisition, construction and consolidation of knowledge. However, its position as the primary place for learning is being...

Topics: Mobile teaching and learning technologies, Authentic, contextualized, and real-world learning, On-demand and just-in-time learning

Online annotation – Research and practices

Ian Glover; Zhijie Xu; Glenn Hardaker

Computers & Education Vol. 49, No. 4 (December 2007) pp. 1308–1320

Annotation can be a valuable exercise when trying to understand new information. The technique can be used to create a ‘condensed’ version of the original information for later review and to add additional information into the existing document. The ...

Collaborative Annotation System Environment (CASE) for Online Learning

Ian Glover; Glenn Hardaker; Zhijie Xu

Campus-Wide Information Systems Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004) pp. 72–80

This paper outlines the design and development process of an online annotation system and how it is applied to the sphere of collaborative online learning. The architecture and design of the annotation system, illustrated in this paper, have been...

Redeveloping an eLearning Annotation System as a Web Service

Ian Glover; Zhijie Xu; Glenn Hardaker

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4221–4228

This paper describes a project, funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), to develop a Web Service that can provide annotation functionality as part of an extensive Web Service-based e-Learning Framework (ELF). The project uses...

Making Connections: Technological Interventions to Support Students in Using, and Tutors in Creating, Assessment Feedback

Ian Glover; Helen J. Parkin; Stuart Hepplestone; Brian Irwin; Helen Rodger

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 23, No. 1 (2015)

This paper explores the potential of technology to enhance the assessment and feedback process for both staff and students. The "Making Connections" project aimed to better understand the connections that students make between the feedback ...

Pedagogy first: Realising technology enhanced learning by focusing on teaching practice

Ian Glover; Stuart Hepplestone; Helen J. Parkin; Helen Rodger; Brian Irwin

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 47, No. 5 (September 2016) pp. 993–1002

This paper explores a “pedagogy first” approach to technology enhanced learning developed by Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) as a method to encourage use of, and experimentation with, technology within teaching practice and to promote the...

A Tale of One City: Intra-Institutional Variations in Migrating VLE Platform

Ian Glover; Anna Campbell; Farzana Latif; Leona Norris; James Toner; Connie Tse

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 20 (2012)

City University London committed in 2009 to make Moodle the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at the core of a new Strategic Learning Environment (SLE) comprised of VLE, externally facing website and related systems such as video streaming and...