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…
Development Activities
School of Health Sciences Teaching and Learning Innovators Event – May 2016
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…
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…
Walking the City
Now in its third year, the Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE) is hosting a three day Walking the City event. This event brings together a diverse range of creative and innovative walks taking place around the capital. The…
City Law School’s new distance learning course (LLB in Legal Practice)
September will see the start of the LLB In Legal Practice. This is a new degree which has a number of specific features to it and opens up some opportunities for the School. The programme…
5 Things to Do with Poll Everywhere
In our continuing series ‘5 Things to do with…’, we look at Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is the web based version of the physical clickers. It can be run from any web enabled device via…
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…
Poll Everywhere User Group, meeting #1
On 8 February I attended the inaugural Poll Everywhere User Group meeting at Regent’s University. The group was set up by Matt.Lingard@uwl.ac.uk and Anna.Armstrong@uwl.ac.uk of the University of West London, “for educational users of Poll…
#appventcityunilead – an experiment before Christmas
Inspired by the various 12 Apps for Christmas twitter initatives from other universities, where an app is posted on a blog post every day, I decided to try and engage with our twitter followers and…