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…
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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…
CitySCaPE
Our simulated reality multi-media resource is now nearing completion. It has been named CitySCaPE (City Simulated Community and Practice Environment). It’s been a long process but we think the end is now in sight. We…
Augmented Reality for Student Induction
The Journalism department recently completed their welcome week for undergraduate students. Part of their induction was delivered using augmented reality, for the second year running. Students were arranged into groups and each group received…
Flipping a large cohort of engineering students case study
I was recently playing host for an Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) Summer Symposium held in one of our very own flexible spaces A109. The highlight of the symposium was…
Lectorial: an Innovative and Successful Learning Space Project at RMIT Melbourne
City University is embarking on a multi-million Vision project of new building. Over the past year as the Learning Development Associate for Learning Spaces at the LDC I have been researching World Class Learning Spaces…
An Innovative Student Centred Learning Space at “The Design Factory” Aalto University Helsinki
In a recent research visit to The Aalto University of Helsinki’s Design Factory my aim was to research and explore innovative learning space ideas that could be incorporated in to the vision for…
Technology in physical learning environments #ldc2013
I was asked to run* a session for Learning@City 2013 Conference about the project I have been doing as part of my Learning Development Associate secondment. The project’s focus is the use and impact of…
Space design for transforming a learning experience
The workshop I ran recently as part of The Learning Conference at City proved very productive. The focus was World Class Creative Learning Spaces, with participants formulating ideas on the key qualities of the…
Students’ creative ideas for displaying their work in learning spaces
Helping a cohort of 52 business students to design and curate their exhibition of the 11 week Reflective Practitioner module provided an interesting opportunity for students to come up with imaginative ways of displaying their…