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Podcast: The Edtech Podcast
Episode:

#10 with Graham Walton, Assistant Director (Academic and User Services), Loughborough University Library

Category: Education
Duration: 00:26:42
Publish Date: 2016-06-19 03:11:06
Description:

What’s featured in this episode? 

  • Loughborough University topped the The Times Higher Education student satisfaction survey in 2016, at a time time when education in the East Midlands has received a grilling by Sir Michael Wilshaw. This episode features: 
  • Getting the user-experience right for students 
  • How universities can learn from the challenges in the content publishing sector 
  • Reclaiming the word ‘library’ as learning spaces evolve 
  • 24/7 learning accessibility vs. work/life balance 
  • Academic investment in light of free resources like Google Scholar 
  • How social media is used in the entire research process and what this means for peer-review 
  • Loughborough’s new campus in London

Tags:

UX, Times Higher Education, Students, University, Higher Education, Library, Learning Spaces, Academia, Academics, Google Scholar, LTHEchat, ALT, Peer-review, VLE, Virtual Learning Environments, Start-ups, Content Publishing, Ethnography

Reading and resources: 

http://www.lboro.ac.uk

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/student-experience-survey-2016-results 

http://uki.blackboard.com

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofsted-issues-warning-about-education-in-the-east-midlands 

https://scholar.google.co.uk

http://davecormier.com/edblog/

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