E-Learning – 6 new things to explore!

A handout we prepared for the UCL Institute of Education Provost’s Welcome event yesterday. Might be of wider interest!

1. Lynda com A huge range of high quality video tutorials supporting learning in software, creative and business skills – all free to UCL staff, and currently enrolled students

2. Box of Broadcasts (BoB) an online TV and radio recording service free to UCL staff and students that enables you to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely and added to a media archive that currently holds more than one million programmes. You can also schedule recordings in advance, edit programmes into clips and create playlists. Login with your UCL user credentials and start watching.

3. MyPortfolio (Mahara) UCL’s e-portfolio is actually a number of tools rolled into one. It has the blogging capability of WordPress or Tumblr (though in MyPortfolio they are called ‘Journals’); CV resources similar to LinkedIn; and networking elements familiar to Facebook users. The key advantage over all these tools, though, is that it’s an institutional resource with the added security and privacy controls that that offers. Login with your standard UCL user credentials. On the homepage you will also find a user guide and resources.

4. UCL Wiki offers users an online space where they can share information and update and edit each other’s contributions. All staff and students have access to the system. Just log in to open your Wiki page. and a personal space will automatically be created. You can then post text, add video and images and embed social media feeds.

5. E-learning Environments blog – regular updates on developments at UCL, links and events as well as case studies and personal experiences. You have found it  already!
   

6. UCL eXtend – an externally-facing Moodle space to help you deliver CPD to an audience beyond UCL. Contact ELE if you would like to develop a course or resource.