This year I have been using Poll Everywhere in my teaching. Poll Everywhere is an audience response system which allows students to answer a variety of questions in class using their own phones, tablets…
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Open Data as an Educational Resource – 5 HE case studies over here!
Launched last Friday (4th Dec 2015) at UCL, this book (which is free to download or read online) contains five case studies about using open data sets for educational purposes, at undergraduate and post graduate…
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 2016. Increasingly work in the HE…
Moodle Forum Subscriptions
Moodle Forums are a great way to encourage communication, collaboration and debate among students and are very easy to set up. To ensure that module participants (staff and students) are kept informed of Forum posts…
AMP your Moodle modules
Audience: City University London staff. The Advice on Module Page (AMP) is a personalised online service that provides recommendations to support staff in designing more effective and engaging Moodle modules. Requesting the AMP…
Call for LEaD Development Grant Applications
Audience: City University London academics LEaD Fellowship Grant LEaD Fellowship grants provide a new opportunity for you to reflect on and examine your teaching practice. Apply for one of these grants and be awarded £1,000…
Staff training in Video Technologies
In November and December, the Educational Technology team in LEaD are holding a series of information roadshow sessions introducing staff to Mediaspace, City’s online platform for creating, sharing and publishing educational video. Mediaspace offers staff…
Submitting Turnitin Assignments
Audience: City University London students and staff Are you preparing to submit an assignment on Moodle for the first time this academic year? Over the summer, the Turnitin assignment in Moodle was updated. This means…
Educational Technology & Learning Spaces Survey 2015
What successes have you had in using educational technology this year? What has held you back from engaging with educational technologies? What educational technologies and learning spaces have you used and would you like to…
Health’s Got Talent: Student, Academic and Ed Tech collaboration
In April 2015 I met with Ursula Smith, Programme Manager for undergraduate Child Health programmes and now Associate Dean for Postgraduate Taught, CPPD and Workforce Development in SHS. She told me about a project she…