Projects and Themes
BLE projects originate from "enhancement themes" that reflect the needs of the Partners.
Digital Capabilities
The BLE has an ongoing commitment to the digital capabilities of our staff and students. A number of projects, activities and events have been run in order to identify, explore and ultimately improve and enhance the ways in which digital technology is used for teaching, learning and research.
Projects on this theme include the Get Interactive MOOC, the Digital Skills Awareneness Courses for students and teaching staff and the Jisc Digital Student Tracker research.
The BLE has an ongoing commitment to the digital capabilities of our staff and students. A number of projects, activities and events have been run in order to identify, explore and ultimately improve and enhance the ways in which digital technology is used for teaching, learning and research.
Projects on this theme include the Get Interactive MOOC, the Digital Skills Awareneness Courses for students and teaching staff and the Jisc Digital Student Tracker research.
UCL Knowledge Lab members have worked with colleagues across BLE to realise some of our ambitions for online and blended learning, such as collaborating on evaluating software, creating resources for digital assessment and feedback, co-designing online staff development in digital education and scaling these up via the BLE MOOCs. These collaborations have always been positive, bringing extra resources, community and support. This has been so important for projects that were too big for us to run on our own. The BLE has provided access to other colleges to test out ideas and find inspiration for new ones. We are, for example, in a unique position of having access to two MOOC platforms which has helped us to develop considerable cross-platform expertise.
Professor Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies, UCL
Previous projects
Online Assessment & Feedback Project
Launched in 2014, the purpose of the BLE Online Assessment & Feedback Project was to improve online assessment and feedback processes, practices, opportunities and technologies available to the BLE partners. It aimed to achieve this by communicating and exchanging examples of good practice by producing publications, online resources and arranging events.
All the written outputs from the project, including research papers and case studies, are available as an ebook, which is free to download.
All the written outputs from the project, including research papers and case studies, are available as an ebook, which is free to download.
The Bloomsbury Online Course (BLOOC) was developed in 2013-14 as a result of collaboration between learning technologists and online learning staff from the BLE partners. Designed to improve the pedagogical use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) used by academics across the consortium, the BLOOC models good practice in teaching and learning with technology, showcasing innovative examples of use from all Colleges. Open to anyone as an On Demand course, launched in 2015, the BLOOC is divided into four topics: multimedia, wikis and blogs, running synchronous teaching sessions and online formative assessment.
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In 2010, the BLE partners, together with LIDC, were awarded a grant from Jisc to fund the Bloomsbury Media Cloud project. The project developed a shared digital media platform, to manage and store audio and video content. The project makes use of the "cloud", where content of differing formats and stored in different locations is pulled together into one place online.
Project website: http://www.bloomsbury.ac.uk/cloud |
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In 2008, the BLE was awarded £195,000 to manage the APT STAIRS project. The project investigated new technologies to provide a common space for users (students, teachers, administrators and researchers) with different skills to work online together. This innovative project focused on the use of online collaborative tools, and aimed to encourage uptake and adoption across the partners in the consortium.
The project ran demonstrators of Google Docs and other similar tools to engage all users in supporting and developing learning, teaching, administration and research. |
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