With the Moodle 2 upgrade not far off, many of our ed. tech teams in each of the ETC working groups, have been working hard to provide all staff and students with an easier, friendlier, enjoyable experience on Moodle 2. So what better then to commend the work being put into this change. Well there…Continue Reading City staff pave the way forward in Moodle 2
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 participation. We have a number of smaller flexible learning spaces, but how does this work with larger groups? The Educational…Continue Reading New Models for Teaching in HE Working Group
What is it? ‘A Massive Open Online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to virtually any person, with no limit on attendance (hence the word massive), that want to attend the course’. Educause,2011 Where has the idea of MOOCs come from? The MOOC is a response to the challenges faced by…Continue Reading Ten things you need to know about MOOCs
This is a node chair Move the tray around Put your bag underneath Put your laptop on the tray Move around to… …work in pairs… …or small groups… …in rows… …or a u-shape… …or any configuration you choose…Continue Reading Node chair
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 the image… …turn off the image to see just your annotations Take photos to record how you have used the…Continue Reading Squiggle glass
This is Outi Kortekangas-Savolainen, Head of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Turku, Finland admiring the lego blocks we use as time sheets in our office to record our work with schools. Capturing and measuring the value of what we do as a service is a challenge for all those that work…Continue Reading Lego fan from Finland
Online learning is a growing trend in higher education and one that allows an expansion of ways to connect with learners and to share content and pedagogy. It is for this reason that web and video conferencing are becoming increasingly popular to support teaching and learning at higher education institutions (Reushle & Loch, 2008, Motamedi,…Continue Reading Get facetime by learning anytime, anyplace and anywhere
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 University London we are bringing about changes in the smaller learning spaces we have to create a number of flexible…Continue Reading Creating flexible learning spaces and the flipped lecture
Significance of research at City University London It is clear that the development of research is and will continue to play a major role in many institutions not precluding City University London. As can be demonstrated by the university’s vision, plans are already underway to steer the university towards an international level of research standing….Continue Reading A Moodlefield of Research Development
Many of our administrators, programme leaders and lecturers long for the day when many of the systems we have in-house such as Moodle and SITS will communicate effortlessly to the point where manual work is minimised. Well the future is bright or at least it will be with Moodle 2.4. About SITS As part of…Continue Reading Moodle 2: An update on improved SITS Integration