Goldsmiths - University of London

Technology-Enhanced Learning Team

The Learning Technology Team within GLEU is the first point of contact for academic staff in using all aspects of technologies to support your learning and teaching activities. We're available to discuss, demonstrate, digest research findings and case studies, and generally help, so please get in touch:

• Mira Vogel, 020 7919 x7298
• Peter Roberts, 020 7919 7332
• Email us at tel.gleu@gold.ac.uk

Workshops

We run a comprehensive programme of workshops covering aspects of using technologies to facilitate learning. Our workshops are advertised through Goldsmiths' Events Calendar. These include ways of working with both institutional software and equipment, as well as those freely available from third parties.

We also encourage you to contact us to arrange sessions tailored for your and your colleagues' needs.

Staff open access area for technology-enhanced learning work

We are piloting making our suite available as an open access area dedicated to technology-enhanced learning development by staff who teach.

The suite, peacefully and conveniently located in Room 307 Warmington Tower, has 6 PCs and 2 Macs and is open for all teaching staff. Depending on prior commitments, members of GLEU’s Technology-Enhanced Learning Team will be on hand at varying intervals throughout the day to support you.

Drop-in sessions for technology-enhanced learning

If you have any questions about learn.gold or Mahara, or other aspects of technology-enhanced learning, or if you'd like to meet up with us to discuss ideas, organising sessions for your department, or to plan a new initiative, come to Warmington Tower for one of our advertised drop-in sessions. During these sessions we can cover anything you like from basic to pedagogically interesting uses of different environments. We can illustrate our discussion with research findings, examples and case studies, and you will have the chance to get hands-on with the technologies.

For dates and times see GLEU's Calendar.

Classroom technologies

GLEU offers support and guidance using a range of classroom technologies including electronic voting and personal response systems ('clickers'), recording technologies (including post-editing and publishing) and escaping the default settings to design appropriate presentations in slideware such as PowerPoint.

Turnitin: online plagiarism deterrence and detection

Turnitin compares student’s work to the contents of its database (including academic papers and other student’s work) and highlights similarity matches between texts. Goldsmiths subscribes to this service, which can be accessed through Goldsmiths’ Learning Enhancement Unit. We encourage use of Turnitin for academic practice rather than only policing, and offer support and recommendations on Turnitin and other plagiarism deterence initiatives.

Learn.gold, Goldsmiths' Virtual Learning Environment

Learn.gold, Goldsmiths' Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), is supported by GLEU. It enables academic staff to represent their courses - flow, materials and activities - online as you feel appropriate.

We strongly recommend arranging an induction to learn.gold to open up some inspiring and useful - but not obvious - avenues, and to ensure that you work as efficiently as possible in learn.gold and save yourself time.

Contact us at tel.gleu@gold.ac.uk for any of the following.

• Joining the Learn.Gold User Group
• Induction, refresher and more advanced exploratory sessions
• Getting a course created
• Workshops supporting the use of learn.gold
• Issues or questions about using learn.gold