As an academic skills tutor, I’m often faced with a student clutching a set of assessment criteria containing the phrase “critically analyse”, or a synonym of that instruction. In my experience, many students understand the…
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Designing effective modules in Moodle 2.8
This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of the improvements that will help staff to design effective Moodle modules in Moodle…
Assessment Improvements in Moodle 2.8
This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of assessment improvements in Moodle 2.8. Grader Report/Gradebook The Grader Report is easier to…
Reactions to Flipped Learning
After attending Dom Pates and Mo Pamplin’s workshop on ‘Extending teaching through multimedia’, where we discussed the potential for flipped learning, I came across this article: http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/professor-and-students-share-reactions-to-the-flipped-classroom/ It includes an interview with a University Professor…
Moodle Update 2015 – What’s new?
Information Services (IS) will be updating Moodle on Tuesday 30th June 2015 as part of the annual summer update. Moodle will be unavailable for 2 hours during the regular Tuesday ‘at risk’ period from 7am-9am…
Development of a new City Course Format
To help save staff time and effort when setting up their modules for the new academic year, as well as improving the consistency of the learner experience, a new City Course Format has been developed….
SEDA Spring Teaching and Learning and Assessment Conference 2015, Internationalising the Curriculum: What does this mean? How can we achieve it? 14th -15th May 2015, Marriott Victoria and Albert Hotel, Manchester
This conference focused on internationalising the curriculum and how academic developers can support institutions and colleagues explore the positive benefits of this. This provided a good opportunity to explore a range of issues related to…
BIT’s 4th Annual World Congress of Emerging InfoTech- 2015, Shenzhen Convention 7 Exhibition Centre 18th – 20th April China.
This conference was focused around education and emerging technology. The key note sessions focused on some of the opportunities that technology had provided for both education and technology…
New Learning Spaces at the Franklin Building
About five minutes from Northampton Square, nestled above the recently opened CitySport, lie two floors of recently launched City learning spaces. Part of the new Franklin Building, there are eight rooms available for all…
Introducing the new City course format
ERES and LEaD have developed a new City course format to ensure a consistent experience for students using Moodle. In order to develop a new City course format we identified best practice in the School…
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