Technology-Enhanced Learning
The Learning Technology Team within GLEU is the first point of contact for academic staff in using all aspects of technology to support your learning and teaching activities. We are always available to offer help or, if not, we refer you in the right direction, so please get in touch.
Examples of support for which you can approach us:
- Recommendations about using technologies in your course, or to address particular educational issues;
- Support with actualising an existing technology-enhanced learning idea you have;
- Consultancy on how you implement a strategy at a departmental level, so that students have a consistent experience across their programme of study;
- Ways to disseminate your good and/or interesting practice;
- Support launching or advancing IT initiatives that have anything to do with learning;
- Use of our staff editing and open access suites;
- Access and pedagogic guidance about using learn.gold, Goldsmiths virtual learning environment (VLE);
- Creating accessible resources on the VLE;
- Support and recommendations for combating plagiarism and using Turnitin- the plagiarism detection service;
- New developments and examples of using social software in academic settings;
- Developing audio and/or podcast material for learning
- Designing interactive online learning experiences; designing technology-supported face-to-face experiences using our personal response system (clickers).
- Funding for e-learning initiatives and projects.
- One-to-one sessions based on your needs; we can design and facilitate personalised workshops for your department or course team;
Learn.gold, Goldsmiths virtual learning environment (VLE)
Learn.gold, Goldsmiths' Virtual Learning Environment, is supported by GLEU. It enables members of academic staff to represent their courses - structure, learning materials and activities - online as they feel appropriate.
Don't hesitate to contact us at tel.gleu@gold.ac.uk for any of the following.
- Getting a course created
- Workshops supporting the use of learn.gold
- Issues or questions about using learn.gold
See our learn.gold pages for other ways to get support.
Why should we integrate technology-enhanced Learning?
In the grand scheme of things, the use of information and communication technologies to support learning is new. There are many needs which motivate us to adopt different technologies to to support different learning and teaching needs, including their ever-unfolding potential to transcend time and distance, to visualise and process data, to perform, and to collaborate. The potential benefits of appropriately-designed TEL include:
- Flexibility of access, time, place and format;
- Space to reflect;
- Sharing of resources;
- New opportunities for authorship and readership or audience;
- New opportunities to become active learners.
Workshops
We run a comprehensive programme of workshops covering all aspects of using technology to facilitate learning. Our workshops are advertised through Goldsmiths' Events Calendar, and here on our web pages.
Projects
We lead and are involved with nationally funded projects and developments, including:
- HEA
Synthesis: engaging academics in professional development for e-learning
- E-learning Benchmarking
- Designing for learning in virtual learning environment (insider perspectives)
- Welcome Project
Keeping abreast of developments
If you'd like to receive information related to learning technology developments at Goldsmiths, such as upcoming courses and workshops, or important service announcements, or our current thoughts on new developments, you can subscribe to our blog feed.