Month: May 2015

SEDA Spring Teaching and Learning and Assessment Conference 2015, Internationalising the Curriculum: What does this mean? How can we achieve it? 14th -15th May 2015, Marriott Victoria and Albert Hotel, Manchester

This conference focused on internationalising the curriculum and how academic developers can support institutions and colleagues explore the positive benefits of this. This provided a good opportunity to explore a range of issues related to this increasingly topical issues. There were discussions about the curriculum and how to integrate an international perspective into this and…Continue Reading SEDA Spring Teaching and Learning and Assessment Conference 2015, Internationalising the Curriculum: What does this mean? How can we achieve it? 14th -15th May 2015, Marriott Victoria and Albert Hotel, Manchester

BIT’s 4th Annual World Congress of Emerging InfoTech- 2015, Shenzhen Convention 7 Exhibition Centre 18th – 20th April China.

              This conference was focused around education and emerging technology. The key note sessions focused on some of the opportunities that technology had provided for both education and technology developers. There was then a range of themes covered in the parallel sessions but of interest was the theme around…Continue Reading BIT’s 4th Annual World Congress of Emerging InfoTech- 2015, Shenzhen Convention 7 Exhibition Centre 18th – 20th April China.

New Learning Spaces at the Franklin Building

R101 is a horseshoe-shaped lecture theatre fully equipped with swivel seating

    About five minutes from Northampton Square, nestled above the recently opened CitySport, lie two floors of recently launched City learning spaces. Part of the new Franklin Building, there are eight rooms available for all schools to use for teaching and learning, as well as a meeting room and some social spaces. The space overall…Continue Reading New Learning Spaces at the Franklin Building

Introducing the new City course format

Moodle module with City course format applied

ERES and LEaD have developed a new City course format to ensure a consistent experience for students using Moodle. In order to develop a new City course format we identified best practice in the School templates to develop four course formats for students to evaluate. The final City course format was developed based on recommendations…Continue Reading Introducing the new City course format