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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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…
Active Learning in Flexible Learning Spaces
Over the past year you may have found yourself in one of the University’s new flexible learning spaces. These rooms have been designed by the Learning Spaces Group, with a membership made up of academics,…
Learning Spaces, the new frontier…
I was rather pleased to be the keynote speaker at Newcastle University’s Learning Technology event last week. I was asked to present City’s Learning Spaces project, and it was a great opportunity to promote the…
New Learning Spaces
City’s first lecture theatre decked out with vibrant orange swivel seating enabling students to work interactively and in groups during lectures is now available to use. This room comprises a suite of colourful flexible learning…
Flexible learning spaces at City exhibition
At City we are creating world class learning spaces in keeping with our strategy. A number of spaces have now been refurbished as flexible learning spaces enabling interactive, collaborative learning and supporting students to use…
Students’ creative ideas for displaying their work in learning spaces
Helping a cohort of 52 business students to design and curate their exhibition of the 11 week Reflective Practitioner module provided an interesting opportunity for students to come up with imaginative ways of displaying their…
Creating flexible learning spaces and the flipped lecture
Increasingly we are aware that learning does not happen by passively receiving information. The traditional lecture where one lecturer talks and students sit quietly in rows listening and taking notes has limited use. At City…
New Learning Spaces: Method of Evaluation
This is a continuation of ideas being developed around the evaluation of learning spaces at City University London. At City University London there is a need to better understand the effectiveness of new learning spaces that are being…
A Call for Learning Spaces Champions
The Learning Spaces Group, running for the past year, brings together Academics and Central Services to discuss current and plan for future lecture room needs. We are calling for nominations for Space Champions – people…