Teaching intelligence: how to support visually impaired students

Transcription centre staff standing outside the centre

Our own transcription centre is featured in the Times Higher Education article on January 25 2020. Katharine Swindells writes that subjects traditionally closed to visually impaired learners are being opened up by new tech.  She says that universities must provide policies, training and resources to match. Some institutions are leading the…

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Periodic Table of Videos

These are great !  Really great ! Shame we don’t have a Chemistry department any more … Wait … I can hear the Secret Campus Police breaking down the Grade 1 listed doors in the old library, coming to drag me off to my cell for heresy – again … …

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Digital Humanities

It is always nice to know you are not alone isn’t it ! Some sterling work has been done in digital humanities here in Swansea – we even have a Masters level module on Digital Antiquity. Now, it appears that things are also happening in UCLA, in similar ways. Looking…

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JISC Digital Media on e-Learning Stuff

My first Podcast of the Week over in Fresh and Crispy was James Clay’s e-Learning Stuff. The latest episode (episode 61) is a small gem in which ILT & Learning Resources Manager at Gloucestershire College James Clay interviews Zak Mensah of JISC Digital Media about ten new advice publications that have…

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