Category Archives: Infrastructure

How well does the University support students and staff to use the technologies they need or elect to use for study, research, teaching etc. (i.e. hardware, software, networks and ICT support)?

How are institutional spaces adapted to support digital practices?

Tools and Equipment to support digital practice – IT issues

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Chris Follows

The university has undergone an incredible amount of change over the past two years in terms of digital tools and environment, including the new website/portals and the new VLE. Many new VLE tools have been introduced, the change from Blackboard to Moodle having the largest impact. Early surveys … Continue reading →

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Six UAL colleges and six differing approaches to digital literacies

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Chris Follows

In terms of DIAL college wide engagement CSM (POI project – BA Performance Design and Practice) and LCF (video presentation skills – MA Fashion Entrepreneurship) have had a majority of local engagement and these were through course engagement involving course … Continue reading →

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QAA institutional review – the results

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Chris Follows

The report also highlights the University’s web-based materials for staff, students and other stakeholders as a feature of good practice, commenting that they are clear, effective and accessible. “Acknowledging that the challenges previously encountered were at least as much human … Continue reading →

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Connect with UAL on social media

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Chris Follows

Connect with UAL on social media http://www.arts.ac.uk/about/showcase/connectwithusonline/ – Connect with UAL online Find ual on Facebook Camberwell College of Arts Central Saint Martins Chelsea College of Art and Design London College of Communication London College of Fashion Wimbledon College of … Continue reading →

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Rich media and mobile tools for studio-workshop Learning and Teaching

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Chris Follows

Many of the DIAL projects to date have identified a clear need for having the right equipment for the job? DIAL have been helping to identify these new tools and processes but DIAL cannot provide all this equipment to everyone, … Continue reading →

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Delivery of technical resource information online

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Chris Follows

One pressing issue that keeps coming up in various meetings is the delivery of technical resource information at course and college level and how this integrates with the new VLE development. There are various initiatives that have been having to … Continue reading →

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How do you like to receive University information?

Posted on September 22, 2012 by John Jackson

This is one of the questions asked in the DIAL online survey – ‘Your Digital World’ which you can access at http://tinyurl.com/dialsurvey. To this particular question respondents can choose several answers. So far, 90% have selected ’email’, 52% have selected … Continue reading →

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Shared OER (Open educational resource) video editing server

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Chris Follows

In this video from the learning studio event, Chris Follows talks about ways of making best practical use of art and design OER (Open educational resource) video content and how to share and co-edit resources across institutions and the sector … Continue reading →

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More survey details ‘Which UAL Online Services do you use?’

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Chris Follows

Some additional comments combined with the survey data John posted earlier. Understandably, with the focus being on teaching and learning, the most used platform was identified as being the current Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) – Blackboard. The fact that use … Continue reading →

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iTunes Ual ?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Chris Follows

I think before jumping into iTunes U, UAL really needs to have a plan/strategy for how it manages its internal video production and how it archives/makes available and licenses video it produces. Ual really needs to establish a unified cross … Continue reading →

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