By: Olivia Fox & Lisa Baker The focus of the M25 was on learning design. This post looks at the presentations around learning design, tools to support the process and staff development. Maria Toro-Troconis (Imperial…
Monthly Archives For July 2014
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…
2013-2014 Student Voice Award winner for non-academic student support
Zazie is sharing why she was nominated for this award and what it meant. There are also some comments from the students nominations to show why they nominated her. What is your role? I…
Twenty-first International Conference on Learning 14th – 17th July 2014
This conference covers the whole spectrum of education from primary school to higher education and so provides an opportunity to hear about developments across a broad range of areas and explore what might be transferable…
Moodle 2.6 Guidance Continued
Audience: City University staff Moodle guidance The Educational Technology Team are continuing to update the Moodle guidance on www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/staff. We have marked guidance on new features with a NEW! to help you identify changes to…
21st International Conference on Learning
I have published two posts from the International Conference on Learning where Pam and myself are currently. The first post is an overview of my main “takeaways” from the conference so far, more useful I thought…
James Perkins VP Education Interview
At the end of July, James Perkins finishes his two year term as Vice President Education for the Students’ Union and alumnus of City University London. He has been a great asset to the students and…
Guidance to support Moodle 2.6 new features
Audience: City University staff Moodle upgrade Information Services (IS) successfully upgraded Moodle on Saturday 12th July. Moodle guidance The Educational Technology Team are updating the Moodle guidance on www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/staff. We have marked guidance on new…
Learning at City Conference 2014 – Catch up
The Learning at City Conference is now in its sixth year and continues to go from strength to strength. This year, for the first time, the conference took place at an external venue and was…
Content Creation Improvements in Moodle 2.6
Audience: City University staff. This blog post explores the improvements to the tools that we use to create content in Moodle. New Text editor Moodle 2.6 has a new text editor called Atto which has…