Category: Learning Space

Need to know more about ISLA?

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Hybrid Teaching at City St. George’s, University of London The options for teaching delivery   https://city-uk-ett.libguides.com/staff/isla/considerations Face to face physically. This can provide the best interactive teaching and help community building, but timetabling slots are not always ideal and travel can be time-consuming and expensive. Face to face synchronously online, using Microsoft teams or Zoom. https://city-uk-ett.libguides.com/staff/live-online-teaching…Continue Reading Need to know more about ISLA?

ISLA Paper Published by Taylor and Francis

ISLA, Inclusive Synchronous Learning Activities, aims to encourage and support active and inclusive hybrid learning & teaching. During the summer of 2022, research was undertaken to evaluate ISLA and make recommendations for the future direction of hybrid learning at City. The research team were Professor Rachael-Anne Knight [now at the University of Essex], Dr. Rebecca…Continue Reading ISLA Paper Published by Taylor and Francis

New ISLA learning spaces for City Law School

Newly modified ISLA spaces at Whiskin Street for Master of Law programme “The LLM programme at City Law School has undergone a transformative evolution in its student delivery methods. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and innovative pedagogy, we have transitioned to a fully hybrid model, enabling us to cater to students both on campus and online, synchronously…Continue Reading New ISLA learning spaces for City Law School

Teaching Here and There, new crowd-sourced Podcast episode

Welcome to this special extended episode of the podcast series, ‘Teaching Here and There’ Presented by Dom Pates, James Rutherford of City, University of London, and Dr Ivan Sikora, University of West London. This episode features crowd-sourced content, with the hosts introducing the contributions of 12 guests from across the globe, each of whom has…Continue Reading Teaching Here and There, new crowd-sourced Podcast episode

Teaching Here and There – A podcast resource for learning more about hybrid teaching

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In recent years, the higher education industry has seen a rise in the popularity of hybrid teaching, also known as blended, multimodal, blended synchronous, Hyflex, and equitable model, which is a method of delivering education to students who are both on campus and online. It has become increasingly popular in the higher education sector since…Continue Reading Teaching Here and There – A podcast resource for learning more about hybrid teaching

Share your views on ISLA – hybrid teaching

Share your views on hybrid teaching Have you heard of Inclusive Synchronous Learning Activities (ISLA) at City? Have you used, or thought about using hybrid/dual-delivery teaching? We’re keen to understand how this new mode of teaching, where some students are physically in the classroom and others are online at the same time, has been experienced…Continue Reading Share your views on ISLA – hybrid teaching

Episode 8 of the podcast series ‘Teaching Here and There’

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This is episode 8 of ‘Teaching Here and There’, featuring three university technology managers from the United States. Julie Johnstone, Director of Learning Spaces at Indiana University, Don Merritt, PhD, who is the Director of Instructional Resources at the University of Central Florida and Mark McCallister, Director of Academic Technology at the University of Florida. In…Continue Reading Episode 8 of the podcast series ‘Teaching Here and There’

March 1st Update – ISLA

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ISLA We are pleased to announce that a number of ISLA rooms have been signed off across Northampton Square. These include: C302, C309, A214, D104 and FG05. At Bunhill Row, most learning spaces on the 2nd and 3rd floors are now ISLA enabled for hybrid teaching. Further ISLA rooms will be signed off later this term….Continue Reading March 1st Update – ISLA

ISLA – New guidance

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Our new guidance pages explain what the capabilities and use-cases are for rooms set up for ISLA teaching Click here for the new ISLA guidance pages by LEaD Inclusive Synchronous Learning Activities (ISLA) is a new pedagogic and technical hybrid method for live teaching simultaneously to students who are both on campus and online. Academic…Continue Reading ISLA – New guidance