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Birkbeck Digital Education

@BBKDigEd

Technology-enhanced learning news and views.

 Bloomsbury, London
moodle.bbk.ac.uk
Joined September 2013
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Birkbeck, University of London@BirkbeckUoL6 Mar 2025
We're excited to host our second annual Climate Festival this March! 🌍 Through a series of in-person & online events, the festival promises to spark fresh ideas around sustainability & the difference people can make both locally & globally. See what's on: ow.ly/kRPn50VbJPq
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Birkbeck, Faculty of Science@BirkbeckScience4 Mar 2025
🚀 Birkbeck Team Secures ESA Funding! An all-women team, led by @MaryamBHaq with @ElisaRFerre, will conduct the first human experiment on ESA’s Orbital Robotics Lab, studying brain stimulation to aid astronauts. @bbkpsychology 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4i1ggMR
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Birkbeck Careers & Enterprise@BirkbeckCareers9 Sep 2024
What can I be with a PhD? 📅Tuesday 8th October 2024, 15.00-17.30 Free online event for Black Heritage penultimate and final year undergraduate and masters students. 📍Hosted virtually by The Francis Crick Institute @TheCrick Register for free:👉 crick.ac.uk/whats-on/what-ca… 👈
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Birkbeck, University of London@BirkbeckUoL3 Sep 2024
WOW! We'd like to wish a huge congratulations to Birkbeck student Giedrė Rakauskaitė on winning #Paralympic gold in the mixed coxed four in Paris! 🥇 🚣‍♀️ Read more about Giedrė's fascinating story and her choice to commit to both sport and study: ow.ly/Xcvu50T9u9a
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Read more here: moodle.com/news/20-anniversa… 🥳🎉
Let’s celebrate! 20 year anniversary of Moodle’s first source code commit - Moodle

Let’s celebrate! 20 year anniversary of Moodle’s first source code commit - Moodle

From 1 source code commit to over 128,700 code commits in 20 years. These numbers represent Moodle’s greatest strength, which is our community.

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Birkbeck Digital Education@BBKDigEd13 Aug 2020
Want to be part of the Digital Education Team at Birkbeck? Are you equipped to manage a large scale VLM? If think you have what it takes to be our new Applications Manager, check out the job listing here: bit.ly/3izQ9xA
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Birkbeck, University of London@BirkbeckUoL2 Jul 2020
If you're starting an undergraduate course with us this year then be sure to check whether you're eligible for a £1000 bursary to help with your studies! 💸 Find details here: bit.ly/2VEG1dL and apply before 31 July 2020.
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"The Zoom app notifies Facebook when the user opens the app, details on the user's device.., [their] time zone and city, which phone carrier.., and a unique advertiser identifier.. which companies can use to target a user with advertisements", WTF 😭 vice.com/en_us/article/k7e59…
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account

Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account

Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all.

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CopyrightLiteracy@UKCopyrightLit26 Mar 2020
Today is going to be hopefully less busy and so we can do some prep for tomorrow's second webinar on copyright and online learning. Thanks again to @A_L_T for hosting. More details here copyrightliteracy.org/2020/0…
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Prof Dilly Fung@DevonDilly15 Jun 2018
Looking forward to speaking at @KingsCollegeLon today, on panel discussing the value of education in research-intensive institutions. Colleagues there and at the LSE @LSEnews may be interested in our related open @LERUnews paper leru.org/publications/excell… @kingsacademykcl @LSETLC
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Prof Peter Bryant@PeterBryantHE21 May 2018
To ignore technology and social media and its transformative community of practices would be a dangerous ignorance for higher education institutions, because tech use by students (and staff) will always happen. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/E… go to p.67 of the book (p.82 of the PDF)
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prof pat thomson@ThomsonPat21 May 2018
And my take patthomson.net/2016/10/20/ca… nitter.gq/docwritingsig/status/9…

can you do too much reading?

I’ve just reviewed four papers. Because the authors didn’t know their field(s) well enough, they were unable to convince me that their paper made a contribution to the journal conversation. All of …

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When is enough reading enough for a doctoral thesis? doctoralwriting.wordpress.co…
When is enough reading enough for a doctoral thesis?

When is enough reading enough for a doctoral thesis?

Ian Brailsford is Postgraduate Learning Adviser in the Libraries and Learning Services at the University of Auckland. Here he shares insights from his recent research into thesis bibiliographies.  …

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LSE Impact Blog@LSEImpactBlog21 May 2018
"By following these six steps I find I rarely miss an article that is important to me." How to keep up to date with the literature but avoid information overload wp.me/p4m9em-8CB
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Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Renaissance Studies 18-19 - deadline is June 15th, so be quick if you're interested! bit.ly/2rZt52K
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UCL Knowledge Lab@uclknowledgelab18 May 2018
Looking ahead: The Transformative Potential of #MOOCs, @ResearchCGHE seminar 05 July 2018 12.30 with Diana Laurillard @thinksitthrough and @eileenkennedy01. Free and open to all, also as webcast. researchcghe.org/events/2018…
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Open Praxis@openpraxis_icde20 Apr 2018
Open Praxis vol. 10 issue 2 with selected papers to be presented at the #OEGlobal18 in Delft next week, just published! openpraxis.org/index.php/Ope… @icde_org @oeconsortium #openeducation #oer #oep #mooc #distanceeducation
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Katy Jordan@katy_jordan20 Apr 2018
Out now in Open Praxis by me, @mweller , @IrwinDev & @VivienRolfe - 'Mapping the open education landscape: citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research' - openpraxis.org/index.php/Ope…
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CopyrightLiteracy@UKCopyrightLit14 Apr 2018
Oops sorry for the mishap @BLE1 and @leohavemann's lovely post on their experiences of publishing an open textbook is back up now: copyrightliteracy.org/2018/0…
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ALT - alt.ac.uk@A_L_T12 Apr 2018
[ALT News] A global perspective on #cmalt professional development in Learning Technology go.alt.ac.uk/2GRRCNj
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Helen Crump@crumphelen13 Apr 2018
Great post from @leohavemann #openedsig #go_gn #oep #oer #critoep #cr2518 nitter.gq/OERConf/status/9843443…
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[#OER18 News] Open to all? We need to be more critical – and more connected – guest post by Leo Havemann oer18.oerconf.org/news/open-…
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