Month: March 2016

Highlights from the Educational Technology & Learning Spaces Staff Survey 2016

At the end of last year (Oct 15 – Dec 15), City University London staff were invited to participate in LEaD‘s annual Educational Technology and Learning Spaces survey. This was an opportunity for staff to feed back on and ultimately influence how educational technology and learning spaces are supported and implemented at City.  Our aim…Continue Reading Highlights from the Educational Technology & Learning Spaces Staff Survey 2016

5 Things to Do with Poll Everywhere

In our continuing series ‘5 Things to do with…’, we look at Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is the web based version of the physical clickers. It can be run from any web enabled device via a browser or an app. It offers a wider range of questions than clickers do, allowing lecturers to ask students…Continue Reading 5 Things to Do with Poll Everywhere

Congratulations and celebrations – Postgraduate Research Symposium

Thursday 17th March 2016 marked the sixth anniversary of the annual Postgraduate research symposium organised by LEaD and the Graduate School. The event was held at Cass Business School for the second year running and attracted a range of over 30 varied and interesting research papers and posters from all schools across City University. The…Continue Reading Congratulations and celebrations – Postgraduate Research Symposium

Behind the award-winning CitySCaPE project

  Last month, a team of staff from LEaD and SHS were recognised for innovation in developing healthcare learning materials at an NHS awards ceremony. Their work on CitySCaPE, a multimedia simulated reality learning package targeted at improving healthcare for people with learning disabilities, won a £10,000 first prize at the annual HENCEL (Health Education North…Continue Reading Behind the award-winning CitySCaPE project

Educational Multimedia Group – 28th October 2015

The first Educational Multimedia Group (EMG) meeting of the academic year ran on 28th October 2015. School of Health Sciences Library Treasure Hunt – Catherine Radbourne and Steve McCombe Steve McCombe from LEaD, and Catherine Radbourne from Library Services, presented a recent project they had worked on to create a pirate-themed treasure hunt for Health…Continue Reading Educational Multimedia Group – 28th October 2015

HEA conference Feb 2016

 I attended the Higher Education Academy (HEA) conference transforming teaching in health and social care 24/25th February 2016  and presented on the flipped classroom. There were a number of sessions and posters on the value and practical use of flipped classroom, which is becoming more common in health and social care teaching. Here are a few notes…Continue Reading HEA conference Feb 2016