As the case with all SLE Working groups, the Moodle look and feel working group have also been busy paving the way to a new look and feel of Moodle with the emphasis on making…
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Investment in Educational Technologies
Many of City’s educational technologies will be getting an investment boost as part of the University’s strategic plan and funding. Moodle will be upgraded and integrated with a repository, timetabling, and mobile delivery tools; video…
Use of the Personal Response System for Formative Assessment in Optometry: Dr Byki Huntjens and Dr Steve Gruppetta
With the recent founding of the University Personal Response System (PRS) Steering Group, co-chaired by Dr Siân Lindsay and Farzana Latif, this would seem to be an opportune time to profile one of the innovative…
Innovation in Assessment and Feedback
My dual role as University Learning Development Associate in Assessment & Feedback and Senior Lecturer in Music has led me to run several pilot projects in my teaching this academic year (2011-12), exemplifying innovative approaches…
CitySpace Switchoff Party
After 8 years of service to the University, CitySpace has been switched off. This event was commemorated with the collection of obituary entries on this blog from staff and students and a small party. CitySpace,…
SLE webinar for ELESIG: From Virtual to Strategic – the reinvention of an online learning environment
I gave my first webinar on Wednesday – was pretty good fun actually – although quite weird to be talking and making jokes, well what I thought were jokes, and not getting any feedback. I…
Mark Brown
Mark Brown: A Story of Hype and Hope: Breaking Free from the Technology Bungy 5th July 2011 During a recent visit to the UK from Massey University, New Zealand, Mark kindly stopped off at City…
Moodle 2 in UK HE event
Moodle 2 in UK HE event 20th June 2011 https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.open.ac.uk/hemoodle/home-1 This event brought together UK HE Moodle users with a ‘strategic’ or ‘technical interest’ at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. Four City University…
Moodle Training for 500 Academics
Janina Dewitz, Barking and Dagenham College @Moodlemoot 2011 Initially providing; 1 size fits all training Demand driven group training Ad hoc 121 Negative impact; constant cycle of retraining. doing work for the lecturer So…they redesigned…
MoodleMoot 2011
Myself and my colleague Stef divided MoodleMoot between us this year and I attended the second day of the conference on 20th April. This was my first MoodleMoot and while there was a lot to…