On 7th May 2014, the Cass Business School held its fourth annual Teaching and Learning Showcase. Themed on excellence in teaching and learning, it featured inspiring talks from Cass lecturers, as well as colleagues from…
Monthly Archives For June 2014
Introducing the Educational Technology Team
Educational Technology: In recent years, the range and scale of educational technologies available to City staff and students has changed radically. For example, Moodle offers a platform to provide course materials, activities and links to…
Educational Technology Team Themes & Projects
This post shares photos of the Educational Technology Team and how we work across three themes and undertake numerous projects. Educational Technology Team members are organised into the three themes of: Blended Learning Multimedia Learning…
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…
Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces: using mobile learning and flexible spaces to promote reflection and discussion
Why? Think-Group-Share creates an engaging moment in lesson that capitalises on discussion and reflection and has a positive impact on student understanding and performance (Habel and Stubbs, 2014). Technique This activity is a modified…
Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Icebreaker Activities
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 – Buzz Groups and Snowballs
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…
To what extent can students be partners in their study skills learning? An evaluative study of a series of academic learning support workshops
We very much enjoyed presenting our paper on students as partners in study skills teaching & learning at the Learning at City Conference 2014. In case you missed the presentation, here’s a link to the…
Ideas for using Moodle’s database activity
Moodle’s database activity module allows you to create online forms to collect data which then gets stored in a database. In other words it is simply a way for multiple people to add structured data…
Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Debating and Presentations
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…
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