Dear colleagues, I wish to alert the Learning @ City readership that ELESIG is back in action from March 2021 and we are launching with a new webinar series for 2021. Our first event of 2021…
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Learning and teaching, reimagined
LEaD Light Lunch – Talking about online learning and teaching
2021 Writing Group dates
The office is not obsolete, maybe the system is
Virtual Moots – Challenges and Opportunities
Is chat where it’s at?
Preparing nursing students for placement in mental health hospitals
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The student voice on Active Blended Learning – an ELESIG Webinar on March 11th 2021
Learning and teaching, reimagined
Digifest, now online With Jisc being an aggregator of much that happens in the digital education space across the UK higher education (HE) sector – from the Janet network and learning analytics to exploring the…
LEaD Light Lunch – Talking about online learning and teaching
The idea behind the LEaD Light lunch sessions was to ask academic and professional colleagues to give short informal talks on topics relating to digital technology and online teaching. Another reason was to build…
2021 Writing Group dates
Last term, like many other activities typically run in-person, Jane and I took our monthly LEaD Writing Group online. The final session of the year included a marvellous guest appearance from Johanna Peyton from the…
The office is not obsolete, maybe the system is
Where is my office? Reflections on a discussion hosted by Herman Miller with Chris Kane, author and ex-head of estates at the BBC and Walt Disney. Businesses large and small are changing fundamentally and quickly…
Virtual Moots – Challenges and Opportunities
I was fortunate enough to partake in the Moots again this year. This is my third year running and I am pleased to be able to help my colleagues at CLS to help students in…
Is chat where it’s at?
With the rapid shift to online teaching, it is easy to forget that we’re now communicating with our students via software that was, in many cases, designed for business meetings rather than for education. A key feature of some of these platforms (a Microsoft Teams Meeting, for example)…
Preparing nursing students for placement in mental health hospitals
There are a limited number of resources available to students to prepare them for working in mental health units and understanding the experience of patients [service users]. This Moodle module for Mental Health Nursing at City follows…
New Learning Analytics Pilot System to help identify students needing support
LEaD and IT have launched a new Learning Analytics Pilot System, to help staff identify students who may not be engaging with their studies, in order to provide them with tailored support. The dashboard provides staff with…
How can we teach our Labs online?
Moving to remote practicals for Engineers “We knew drawing on expertise from elsewhere in the sector would be necessary to help us to address this significant challenge at City, but Sheffield colleagues surpassed all our…
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