The University of Gloucestershire implemented Talis Aspire just over a year ago and have already received great feedback from academics on the way in which reading lists are transforming the way they teach.
The University of Gloucestershire implemented Talis Aspire just over a year ago and have already received great feedback from academics on the way in which reading lists are transforming the way they teach.
Using Talis Aspire Advanced Management Information System (MIS), you can easily find out about lists or items that have some data condition that you want people to care about. You might want people to care that their list is considered unloved if it has not been updated for a couple of months. Or maybe they should care that items on their list should have item importance set. Find out how data in Talis Aspire Advanced MIS can power notifications that
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Edyta Krol from the University of West London presented the session “Can online reading lists achieve meaningful engagement with the academics and students within a digital landscape?” at an event in Warsaw. See her paper and slides in this post.
The University of West England, Bristol (UWE) has adopted Talis Elevate in the Department of Education and Childhood. In this blog post, we discuss with Susan Hughes (Associate Head of Department of Education (Education Engagement)), and Tim Sanderson (Senior Learning Technologist) about their approach to adoption and rollout of Talis Elevate.
Anyone who’s been involved directly or indirectly will have had a similar experience with a cohort of students. You ask a question to the cohort in front of you and get no response. This can be a really challenging issue for any educationalist regardless of the level of experience you have, and can quite easily railroad any active learning strategy you may have for your content. The critical question here in my mind though, is why do students’ not feel
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In this blog post, Adrian Scruton, Principal Lecturer and Academic Lead (Employability) at Anglia Ruskin University, talks about his experience of using Talis Elevate as part of a peer review activity for ethics submissions. Students’ were asked to review two previously submitted (and anonymised) submissions, and critique the submissions for detail, accuracy, and ethical considerations from the perspective of an ethics panel reviewer.
The University of Lincoln, following a year of trialling Talis Elevate, have now purchased a site license for three years. We caught up with members of the team at the University of Lincoln involved with the pilot to get their thoughts on the purchase.
Dr Paul Dyer, Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, details how Talis Elevate played a key role in his research project, investigating how students engage with a Learning Research Methods Module. The project looked into how Research Methods could be enhanced beyond a passive, unpopular course in Biomedical science by using a Team-Based Learning Methodology, adopting a number of active learning principles. Talis Elevate was the primary delivery mechanism for resources used in this project. Further research will be looking
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Last month, I attended the ALT East of England Meetup at the lovely UEA campus. The theme of this event was all around gamification in teaching, with a number of examples and use cases from Anglia Ruskin, UEA, and LAL Language. What really struck me at this event was the variety of examples that were shown; everything from quizzes with digital badges, to using Oculus Rifts for training, team-based 360 simulation approaches for Digital Marketing students, to using an escape
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The Reading List Foundation is a charity that aims to lessen the financial burden of attending university for students in the UK. They donate £250 to nominated students via schools and colleges, in the form of an e-voucher, that they can spend on books and materials for their course. The team at Talis thought this was an interesting initiative, and we invited their Co-Founder to share what they do with our audience.