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…

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…
Imagine a suite of spaces, specifically designed for and dedicated to exploring, trying out, developing and sharing innovative teaching ideas. Where you can work with a small group of colleagues for a couple of hours,…
A number of learning spaces now sport node chairs. These chairs are on castors and can be moved around the room. It has a tray underneath for storing bags and a tray at lap height…
At City University, London we are developing more and more flexible learning spaces. Increasingly academics are using pedagogic models that enhance learning by utilising the learning technologies we have and focus on interactivity, collaboration and…
This is squiggle glass Squiggle on it using whiteboard or neon board marker pens Squiggle glass is magnetic Put up paper using magnets… …add post-it notes… …and squiggles Project an image using the pod… …annotate…
Increasingly we are aware that learning does not happen by passively receiving information. The traditional lecture where one lecturer talks and students sit quietly in rows listening and taking notes has limited use. At City…
An exhibition with the theme of death may not immediately spring to mind as place for teaching and learning but proved to be a rich source of ideas for a group of MAAP students…
My final blog post reflecting on newly implemented practices last year is a long-overdue write-up of my experiences teaching different classes in one of City’s innovative Learning Spaces, which have been much talked about recently…
Dont Walk Away, Have Your Say! was an LDC event at the end of last term on the main walkway, aiming to capture student views and promote three of the ongoing LDC projects. I invited…
At the end of last year, the Learning Development Associates staged an event: don’t walk away have your say. We spent a couple of hours collecting input into our projects by stopping students and asking…