Following the success of the 1st Teaching and Learning Innovators Event in January, we as LEaD at SHS put on the 2nd Teaching and Learning Innovators Event on Monday 23rd May 12-1pm, focused around mobile…
Monthly Archives For May 2016
SEDA Spring Teaching and Learning and Assessment Conference 2016 Innovations in Assessment and Feedback Practice 12th -13th May 2016 Edinburgh
The conference topic innovations in assessment was clearly a popular choice despite there having been a lot of dissemination of assessment developments over the last decade. It seems that whilst there has been many advances…
5 Things to Do with your Moodle Module
Continuing my series on 5 things to Do with…, this article focuses on 5 Things to do with your Moodle module. These tips have been devised with the help of Neal Sumner, Senior Lecturer in…
Nursing and Midwifery Education in Togo: needs assessment
Thanks to a partnership development grant from the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET) and in collaboration with Vision Togo, a UK-based charity, I recently spent 9 days in Togo, West Africa, with my…
Reaching out to distance learners: using Adobe Connect to broadcast a workshop online
Some City students have said that they find it hard to attend the Academic Learning Support workshops, which are normally run at lunchtime. A number of these students were part-time or distance learners. Whilst we…
Moodle 3 Update 28 June 2016
Moodle will be updated to version 3 on 28th June during the 7-9am maintenance window. Moodle 3 Developments The focus of this year’s update has been on minor improvements to streamline processes around set up…
Online Role-play and Simulated Practice in Pre-Reg Midwifery Education
The midwifery context Despite nursing and midwifery being defined in terms of being caring professions, recent investigations into practice in the NHS make sombre reading, describing both nurses and midwives failing to demonstrate care or…