After 5 years, almost 500 posts and 300 comments, and over 12,000 unique visitors in the last 12 months alone, this blog is entering a new phase and will now be known as ‘Learning at…
Posts By Dominic Pates
Behind the award-winning CitySCaPE project
Last month, a team of staff from LEaD and SHS were recognised for innovation in developing healthcare learning materials at an NHS awards ceremony. Their work on CitySCaPE, a multimedia simulated reality learning package targeted…
Educational Technology at scale: Bett 2016 review
Now over 30 years old, The Bett Show is a huge London-based event for showcasing the uses of information technologies in education, spanning primary to tertiary and skills. A couple of LEaD staff were invited…
10 tips for first time presenters at an international conference
The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE) was held in Greece in early July, the first international conference held overseas I’d presented at. Here are ten reflections based on the experience…
New Learning Spaces at the Franklin Building
About five minutes from Northampton Square, nestled above the recently opened CitySport, lie two floors of recently launched City learning spaces. Part of the new Franklin Building, there are eight rooms available for all…
A toe in the waters
Last month, I attended my first conference for the Association of Learning Technologists (ALTc), held at the University of Warwick. Not only was it my first ALTc, but probably also the first time to significantly…
Rethinking the lecture theatre
To enable collaboration and flexibility; the design of a traditional lecture theatre will alter dramatically to enable working together in groups and for the teacher to move between groups. I envisage future lecture space to…
‘Six Hats of Critical Thinking’: a lecture or seminar activity for City’s Learning Spaces
Looking for creative teaching activities? Encourage students to work collaboratively and motivate each others’ learning, to clarify their understanding of course content and reflect on different peer perspectives. Take a look at the group work…
Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces: the jigsaw classroom
Looking for creative teaching activities? Encourage students to work collaboratively and motivate each others’ learning, to clarify their understanding of course content and reflect on different peer perspectives. Take a look at the group work…
Made@City 2014
Last week, several members of the Educational Technology team paid a visit to the Made@City 2014 event in Shoreditch Village Hall. This event, now in its second year, is City’s end-of-year show for students from…
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