If you were to ask me ‘how can we enhance the student experience?’, the first thing I’d do is debunk the concept entirely. The ‘student experience’ is generic, its broad brush painting the idea of…
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Principles of Engagement: A Student Engagement Conversation
On the 27th November, I attended a ‘Student Engagement Conversation’ event hosted by The Student Engagement Partnership (TSEP). TSEP are a joint venture, funded predominantly by the National Union of Students and Higher Education Funding…
ELI: Learning Space Design, Technology and Assessment
This year, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative organised a two-day web conference about learning spaces: Re-imagining the Learning Space: Design, Technology and Assessment, where Paul Baepler and J. D. Walker, from the Center for Educational Innovation, at…
Online Role Play for Learning – Current Practice from City and Beyond – November 2014
Can You Run The Mill? Using role play to simulate professional environments, supported by online environments and tools, is providing an active, contextual and sometimes challenging learning experience for learners in the fields of Business,…
ALT Annual Conference 2014: Riding giants: How to innovate and educate ahead of the wave
The “giants” in the title are waves. It’s an interesting choice, as is the emphasis on the need (or desire) to educate “ahead of the wave”. I mention this because, by the end, I…
Partnership in Practice at the University of Lincoln
On the 24th October, I attended the University of Lincoln’s KICKSTART Conference. Focusing on students as partners (or in the case of Lincoln’s nomenclature, co-producers), the conference highlighted some exciting work going on. Further to…
Leadership and Change in the Public Eye
“There should be a prize for people who make the worst mistake and learn from it.” This is a quote from Tony Hall, Director General of the BBC, being interviewed by Professor Laura Empson, Director of…
The new cluster seating lecture theatre: ELG01
Flexibility and the ability to easily create moments of active learning, both individual and collaborative ones, inform the design of the new learning spaces at City University. ELG01, a new cluster seating lecture theatre, has…
Leadership: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Perhaps love isn’t a word we usually associate with the workplace. However, Gabriella Braun argues that leadership is about people and working with people demands a capacity for love. The seminar Leadership: What’s Love Got…
Developing Leadership and Your Reflective Practice
We are now recruiting participants for the Developing Leadership and Your Reflective Practice module that will run as a double module as part of the MA Academic Practice from January 2015. Increasingly work in the HE…
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