Year: 2014

Leadership for a better student experience; What do senior executives need to know?

Last week I had the opportunity to attend a one-day event on ‘Leadership for a better student experience: What do senior executives need to know?’ jointly organised by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and the Higher Education Academy. The event’s topic, homonymous to Prof Ramsden’s 2013 stimulus paper, was particularly appealing to me on…Continue Reading Leadership for a better student experience; What do senior executives need to know?

Learning Spaces, the new frontier…

I was rather pleased to be the keynote speaker at Newcastle University’s Learning Technology event last week.  I was asked to present City’s Learning Spaces project, and it was a great opportunity to promote the work we are doing, and share our experiences with the wider academic community.  The event was attended by academics, Learning…Continue Reading Learning Spaces, the new frontier…

Educational Technology Online Guides & Service Now Support

Audience: City University London staff & students Online Guides Guides for using all our educational technologies have been collaboratively developed by our Educational Technology Team and are available at: www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/staff and www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/student. Service Now To access support in using educational technology do log your queries through Service Now ( www.city.ac.uk/itservicedesk ). Incident or Request? If you want to…Continue Reading Educational Technology Online Guides & Service Now Support

Giving iPads to students: crazy, genius or both? A three year retrospective

Three years ago in July 2010 shortly after the worldwide launch of the iPad1 the University of Minnesota hit the press for announcing that they would be providing all 450 first year students in their school of education with iPads.  This quickly made national and then international news.  Three years on they are still providing…Continue Reading Giving iPads to students: crazy, genius or both? A three year retrospective

Digital Badges: Why ?

I attended an interesting session at the ELI conference last week, by Penn State University in the US about the ways in which they had been using digital badges with students and staff.  Digital badges are a way of awarding a digital certificate in the form of a badge to a student or member of…Continue Reading Digital Badges: Why ?

Robots Invaded my Conference!

I spent last week at ELI in New Orleans, the US eLearning Conference run by Educause.  My main purpose for attending was to find out more about what US institutions are doing with Learning Spaces, but as always with ELI I learned so much more, everything was interesting  from Robot participants to Neurology lectures. While…Continue Reading Robots Invaded my Conference!

BETT 2014

I spent yesterday at BETT  (the British Educational Training and Technology Show).  BETT is a giant exhibition for vendors of Educational Technologies.  I went along with colleagues from IS and PAF to investigate classroom technologies.  This year I found some really innovative solutions to provide power in flexible spaces, and for capturing whiteboards, however the most…Continue Reading BETT 2014

The call for abstracts for the 2014 Learning at City Conference is now open to all City Staff.

Learning at City Conference 2014 – Students as Partners in Learning? Wednesday 4th June 2014 | 9am – 6pm We are pleased to open the Call for Abstracts for the 6th Annual Learning at City Conference, to all City University Staff. Following the success of previous conferences, we will also be inviting colleagues from other…Continue Reading The call for abstracts for the 2014 Learning at City Conference is now open to all City Staff.

Getting out of a muddle with Moodle at MUGGL

The MUGGL (Moodle User Group Greater London) meeting, Tues 19th Nov 2013, was a friendly affair and well attended. It took place just before the M25 meeting on the same day at Kings College. Packed into the half-day session were “Show & Tell” speakers, a “SwapShop” in which users swapped ideas about Moodle 2 plugins,…Continue Reading Getting out of a muddle with Moodle at MUGGL