International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, Quebec, Canada, 22-25 October. In October 2014, I attended the ISSOTL Conference for the first time. The theme of the conference was Nurturing Passion…
Projects & Research
Celebrating 20 years of educational research: reflections on two anniversaries
European Conference of Educational Research (ECER) Porto, Portugal, 01-05 September 2014 Researching higher education: 20 years of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research, Lancaster University, 12 September 2014 ECER, 2014: In September 2014, I participated…
Students and Agency: How we get employability wrong
A driving force in the HE sector at the moment is employability. The Higher Education Academy notes: ‘A common theme across HE policy and funding throughout the UK is the need to ensure that graduates…
Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference 17th – 20th Sept. 2014
I am a PhD student at City University and as part of my PhD studies, I presented our work on hand orientation based interaction with augmented objects at the First Conference on Augmented and Virtual…
Introducing Templates on City Blogs
City Blogs is a service for staff and students to blog about learning, teaching and research activities at City University London. Are you planning on using blogs with your students? Would you like to provide…
Introducing the Blended Learning Theme
Blended Learning is increasing in popularity as an effective way to meet diverse learner requirements and offer increased flexibility for students through the integration of resources and activities in an online environment with face-to-face teaching….
Introducing the Multimedia theme of LEaD
At City we are seeing more and more people using multimedia to create revision presentations, online lectures for use in approaches such as the flipped classroom, demonstrations of clinical or experimental procedures, and simulations of…
Drug Calculations Tool – an eLearning Project
I’m Neil Goldwasser, a Dyslexia Support Tutor in Learning Success, one of the 3 areas that make up LEaD, and I’ve recently designed an eLearning resource in consultation with Peter Bentley, Senior Lecturer in the…
Showcasing excellent teaching and learning at Cass Business School
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…
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…
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