Author: John Jackson

Higher Education teaching and learning. Senior Digital Learning Coordinator / Educational Developer at University of the Arts London (UAL). Professional advice, consultancy, pan-European+, commercial, public sector, digital innovator, open source, FOSS, eclectic, semi-lapsed linguist and sometime amateur musician. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Occasional blogger and conference attender and presenter.

UAL Digital Baseline

The online survey for UAL students and staff which is available at has yielded some interesting results. The survey asks a mixture of questions – some multiple choice (quantitative) and others very open (qualitative) – thereby inviting additional comment and reflection. A summary of the multiple choice answers to date is shown below – watch this space for further details on the more qualitative findings.

(The findings presentation runs automatically below – but you can also open it up in a new browser window to view full screen).

Exploring, understanding and addressing the appetite for change

I recently presented a short paper at the Learning Technology Conference Alt-C 2012 entitled ‘Exploring, understanding and addressing the appetite for change’.

This was the result of a collaboration between Marc Griffith and myself and explored the changes taking place in the e-learning and online environments at UAL.


The slides for this presentation are available at: Exploring, Understanding and Addressing the Appetite for Change – http://goo.gl/HBfRb

Process Arts http process arts ac uk has…

Process Arts logo

Process Arts – http://process.arts.ac.uk – has recently been nominated for another award, namely the 2012 Education-Portal.com People’s Choice Award in the Most Progressive category.

Nominations were made by Education-Portal.com readers and other members of the free education community. Voting closes on 31 August – and further information about the awards and the nominations is available @ Education Portal.

Improving Feedback – the Development of an Online Assessment Tool

We recently presented at Solstice 2012 (Edge Hill University) on the development of the Online Assessment Tool so far.

Below is the slideshow of the presentation we used – this is also @ http://goo.gl/ouuF6:

My Digital Life

The ‘My Digital Life’ project is an opportunity for UAL students to give short (6 minute) presentations about their digital lives at the 2012 ‘Designs on eLearning’ conference to be held in London 5-7 September 2012.

The focus of this year’s conference is ‘Crowd and cloud: towards a collaborative future’.

For further information and to apply, have a look @:
http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/del2012/my-digital-life/

Online Assessment Tool (OAT) – update

OATI recently had the pleasure of talking to LCF’s Graduate School about the Online Assessment Tool (which has quickly become known as ‘OAT’).  This CLTAD developed tool is still a work in progress but is available for those tutors who request that it is embedded within their Blackboard course(s) (it will also be available via Moodle when we move from Blackboard to Moodle).

OAT is proving very popular as a look at the usage statistics indicates. Currently (as of 20-4-12) the tool is available to 86 courses and has been used to provide feedback and grading to students submitting work across 220 assessments. This translates into 6821 separate instances of grading/feedback, of which 4618 have been published to date. So far, 131 tutors have provided grading feedback using OAT and 3646 students have received at least 1 instance of feedback in this way.

The presentation I used to introduce and contextualise the Online Assessment Tool is available @: http://tinyurl.com/oatsofar