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At 5pm on Friday 7 June 2013 Moodle will be made unavailable to allow the yearly archive copy to be created and to enable upgrades and security improvements to be made.

The UCISA Digital Skills and Development Group's Academic Support Group (ASG) is collecting case studies demonstrating best practice in the use of mobile technologies to enhance teaching, learning and assessment.

The third and final Distance Learning Forum of the 2012-13 academic year will be held on Wednesday 3 July alongside the inaugural CPD and Short Courses Forum. 

There is increasing research into the role of tutor and peer feedback within higher education. But how much of this research is relevant to teaching academics? On Monday 20 May 2013, visiting speaker Paul Orsmond will discuss this in a talk entitled ‘Feedback practices: what do they tell us?’.

UCL’s School of Public Policy and NYU Wagner have announced an innovative new one-year Executive Master of Public Administration in Global Public Policy and Management (Global EMPA) that will equip future leaders with the skills to deal with complex global issues and policy decisions.

Continuing professional development (CPD) in Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy has never been more important. Rosalind Duhs reports on a day designed to explore the best ways in which UCL can provide for industry and practitioners. 

Explore the benefits and best ways of using flipped teaching in a two-day workshop, led by a visiting professor.

The Vice-Provost (Education) discusses the various conferences he has opened over the past week and reflects on the most important aspects of each one.

A UCL conference dedicated to discussing how we can best prepare students for the world of work through their academic work provided plenty of food for thought, writes Ele Cooper.

Experts from UCL will lead a Times Higher Education-hosted webinar on Thursday 25 April at 4pm.

Stefanie Anyadi, a member of the Teaching Administrator Conference Organising Committee, reports on this year's conference.

The ELE (E-Learning Environments) team are running a new series of drop-in support sessions for UCL staff.

These informal sessions are open to all colleagues who either use or are interested in using ELE core services including Moodle, Lecturecast, Turnitin, Opinio and MyPorfolio. The session managers can also offer advice on the use of social media and a range of other ways in which the web can enhance the student experience.

A Town Hall meeting has been planned so that interested parties can discuss UCL's involvement in the Swiss Cottage-based secondary school.

E-Learning Environments (ELE) have published a new online 'Getting started with Moodle' course.

This self-paced, freely enrolable course is aimed at UCL staff who are new to Moodle as well as those who may have attended training in the past and who now want to refresh their knowledge.

Ele Cooper reports on the key highlights and debates from last week's EWB conference.

Image: an EWB volunteer works on a project in the Philippines

Despite teachers' best efforts, plagiarism remains a serious problem throughout the higher education sector. In a bid to tackle the problem, Turnitin is running a week of free online activities to help teachers foster student understanding of the issue and devise tactics to avoid it occurring.

Professor Malcolm Grant, UCL President and Provost, has invited nominations for the 2013 Provost's Teaching Awards and announced new Student Choice Teaching Awards which will share the July ceremony.

The Vice-Provost (Education) discusses the importance of personal tutoring in helping boost students' employability, as well as their wellbeing.

A workshop called ‘Media-savvy teaching’ will run on 10 and 21 June 2013 with the aim of helping UCL staff improve the quality of recorded material used for teaching.

With Microsoft, NASA and Disney already using Mozilla’s Open Badges system to recognise employees’ skills and achievements, the potential of the idea is indisputable. Ele Cooper reports on an event exploring whether badges could also be used to reward UCL students.

The latest University Technical College to be approved by the Government will be built in East London by the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) in partnership with UCL, Prospects Learning Foundation and Ford. Other industry partners who will assist in the design and delivery of the curriculum include BP, National Grid and Network Rail.

Peter Phillips reports on the 'Social media for academic purposes' workshop, discussing the ways in which the presenters use Twitter and blogging to complement their research, teaching and learning.

The UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) has released details of all the speakers and papers that will be covered at the 'Embedding Skills and Employability in the Curriculum' conference, which will be held on Friday 19 April 2013.

At 4pm on Thursday 21 March there will be a Town Hall event for all UCL staff interested in learning more about the BEAMS School’s exciting new endeavour on science, technology, engineering and public policy.

Yesterday a selection of HE’s great and good converged at the Guardian Higher Education Summit to discuss the future of our sector.