Good Practice Blog

Today we have the confessions of a self-confessed “grumpy”/reluctant IT user. At the Launch, people were talking about spaces and connections that support their learning and teaching. MOLE (the online Virtual Learning Environment) here at the University of Sheffield, is certainly one of those space. Here are Marcin Szczerbinski’s thoughts….
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I spent last couple of hours [...]

Today we have our first brave academic treading into the fray where no academic has yet dared to go before. Ah yes, the brave and bold Alistair Warren dares to speak about spaces and connections he values.

Adam Rout, a third year Management student at the University of Sheffield appreciates how humorous and communicative his lecturers [...]

A brief update from Michael Smith of Dentistry today - posting next month on the blog - who has been in rather colder climes than here. “One of two icecaps crossed and no polar bears encountered (thankfully). Pulling the sledge gave me some time to think about the blog…” This is a truly focussed man [...]

And now onto more engineering modesty (this was the connection). What we have here is possibly our first post of what I think is truly literary quality. I find that it flows beautifully. This is a man who understands language. When I told this to Adrian (the engineer who wrote it) he suggested I was [...]

Another Wednesday and that means a post on a Teaching theme. Today, Jo Gilham from LeTS has obliged. She works on MOLE with Paul Wigfield and they have been developing all sorts of new resources and applications that you can use to support your teaching. One of the most exciting ones they have launched recently is Snapshare. This is a copyright-free [...]