The Annual Learning at City Conference will be taking place on Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at The Hatton in Hatton Gardens. The conference, now in its seventh year, is gaining popularity every year and attracts staff from City University London and colleagues from other HE institutions who welcome a day of sessions based on themes…Continue Reading Is Learning for Everyone? – Booking now open
Our simulated reality multi-media resource is now nearing completion. It has been named CitySCaPE (City Simulated Community and Practice Environment). It’s been a long process but we think the end is now in sight. We have had the privilege of working with some very talented young actors who have learning disabilities themselves, some very long…Continue Reading CitySCaPE
Are you looking for innovative ideas to make better use of the devices your students bring to class? If you are thinking about how to teach and learn with smart devices, then this new book is full of practical ideas! Smart Learning published by the Media Enhanced Learning Group, is about teaching and learning with…Continue Reading A free new book on teaching and learning with smartphones and tablets out now!
Why use lecture capture? What are the limitations? How do you do on the fly editing? This post looks at some of these issues, advice and novel solutions universities using the open source lecture capture system, Opencast shared at the annual Opencast Conference, at the University of Manchester, which I attended the first day of,…Continue Reading Lecture capture: Opting (out) to enhance student experience and other Opencast Conference Highlights
Members of the Heads of E-Learning Forum (HeLF), a network of senior staff in institutions engaged in promoting, supporting and developing technology enhanced learning, met at the University of Leeds in February to explore flexible pedagogies. The workshop addressed a number of aspects of flexible pedagogies such as new curricular being developed at different institutions,…Continue Reading HeLF Flexible Pedagogies Workshop
London could be viewed as a giant extended classroom freely available to use for activities, wandering and discovery. The scene of our latest walking and learning activity was a literal treasure trove under the pavements of Chancery Lane, the London Silver Vaults. This fascinating underground site now hosts 30 specialist silver retailers and started life as…Continue Reading Silver Vaults Walking and Learning Activity
April / May workshops please book here. Written by Dominic Pates, Jorge Freire and Santanu Vasant (Learning Spaces Theme) During February LEaD staff delivered a series of workshops aimed at introducing staff to large and small group teaching activities and showcasing the new learning spaces at City. This short article provides highlights from these workshops and…Continue Reading Active Learning Workshops and New Learning Spaces
Audience: City University London students and staff According to our reports on Moodle assessment activity; there were 18 Turnitin assignments due at the beginning of March. This post highlights how students can access the three different types of feedback that lecturers can provide using GradeMark – Turnitin’s feedback system. Click on the Turnitin assignment from…Continue Reading Accessing Turnitin Feedback
The highly successful Walking Reading Group, facilitated by Lydia Ashman, Ania Bas and Simone Mair, finished it’s current iteration of walks with a flurry of activity this month. Events included a suite of walks in Bilbao, a ‘Walking as Resistance’ walk around parliament and the surrounding area with texts and themes arising from the Human Rights…Continue Reading The Walking Reading Group and Beyond
Futurefest rightly describes itself as ‘Nesta’s flagship weekend event of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers to excite and challenge perceptions of the future.’ The event sprawled across the inspiring spaces of Vinopolis and brought together techies, thinkers, academics, artists, futurologists, journalists, writers, designers and robots. So many ideas that were conceptual at the beginning…Continue Reading Futurefest