Welcome to the LDC Newsletter for June 2013.
Included this month:
- 5th Annual Learning at City Conference – Thursday 6th June 2013 – Last chance to book a place!
- New Educational Vignettes Posts
- ELESIG Summer Symposium
- Dates for your Diary
5th Annual Learning at City Conference – Thursday 6th June 2013 – Last chance to book a place!
This year’s annual conference is being held this week and all City University London staff are invited to attend.
This year’s theme is: “Innovation and creativity in higher education.”
Registration on our website
Colleagues from across the University will share their research, innovation and practice in this area, providing an opportunity for you to listen to others, share good practice and explore transferability between different disciplines.
The conference will focus on the following sub-themes:
- Innovation and creativity in curriculum design;
- Being creative in assessment design;
- Innovative approaches to giving feedback;
- Creative teaching and learning; and
- An innovative and creative learning experience.
Colleagues will present posters, exhibitions and papers and workshops relating to the conference’s themes.
There will be a keynote presentation from Professor Diana Laurillard, student-led activities and a prize-giving presentation by our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curran.
You can also register for a pre-conference workshop to support you in better engaging with the conference through social media. You can find out more about this when you register your attendance.
New Educational Vignettes Posts
There have been some interesting updates posted on our Educational Vignettes Blog this week.
Firstly, there is an introduction to some of the new features that will be available using Moodle 2, an upgrade to our current VLE to be made available for 2013-14.
Secondly, there are updates about the exciting new stages in the redevelopment of our physical learning spaces, incuding new lecture theatres designed to facilitate group and collaborative work.
You can read about these developments and many more interesting items on out Educational Vignettes blog, updated regularly.
ELESIG Summer Symposium
Booking is now open for the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) Symposium which will be held at City on the 28 June. The programme for the day explores learners’ experiences of innovative flipped and open online curricula with the keynote coming to you live from the University of Queensland.
The ELESIG community would particularly like City folks to contribute during the members corner. This is where there is an opportunity to share a project, an idea for a small grant for ELESIG or a new data collection tool etc. So when submitting your booking form why not ask for 5 – 15 minutes with community members to share your research and practice into learners’ experience of e-learning? (See booking form).
See more details and RSVP on ELESIG. For more details of the programme please click here. Members of ELESIG can view full details of the event via this link. For those who aren’t members and would like to be, its free to join. For booking onto the event please click here.
Dates for your Diary
Backchannel Communication Workshop – Wednesday 5th June 2013
Learning at City Conference – Thursday 6th June 2013
Research Symposium – Wednesday 26th June 2013