Looking forward Like most sectors, higher education looks at trends the affect it and tries to imagine potential futures from them. The University of Greenwich’s 2017 Academic Practice and Technology conference took this theme up this year with relish. Focusing on ‘reimagining higher education in the face of a rapidly changing and sometimes chaotic environment’,…Continue Reading Is the future what it used to be?
As part of the revamp of the Academic Learning Support webpages we have added a new Study Guides section.These are short introductory guides on the most frequently accessed topics on the Learning Success Moodle page. Please have a look, share with your students and if you have any comments or suggestions, email – daniel.sansome@city.ac.uk….Continue Reading Easy to access Study Guides for students
Welcome to a new Academic Year! Starting university it’s always an exciting experience, but can be overwhelming for some. As a student you get introduced to so many new people, places, ideas and systems. Apart from attending lectures, browsing in the library, stopping off at the student canteen and trying to find your way around Northampton Square you are also introduced to our Online Learning Environment- Moodle. This year to help our…Continue Reading “Learning with Moodle”- A new student induction module
This autumn, City’s Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) team is offering a wide-ranging series of lunchtime study skills workshops. Most sessions are open to all City students but some are school-specific, as shown in the schedule below. Prebooking is not necessary; just come along to the sessions that best address your needs. All sessions take…Continue Reading Lunchtime workshops to develop your study skills
A guest post by Snigdha Nag, Senior Lecturer at the City Law School based on the Bring Your Own Lunch (#BYOL) Webinar in September 2017, organised by LEaD. If like to present the next one in November or write a blog post for us, then contact us. The Slides are below, for more detail, please…Continue Reading How to get more out of Moodle – Bring Your Own Lunch Webinar September 2017
What is the educational benefit of using OfficeMix? OfficeMix is one of many tools that you can use to create voiced over PowerPoints, to enabled you to try a flipped classroom approach on medium to large co-horts of students. Flip a lecture or part of a lecture by moving direct instruction of core knowledge away…Continue Reading Blend It, Flip It, OfficeMix It… Voicing PowerPoint Easily for free
This summer the LEaD writing group activities focused on editing. This post outlines the activities so you too can use them to pep up your prose. 1. Hiding the ‘I’ in fiction and non-fiction Blog writing can be a reflective form of writing. As a result, we may use ‘I’ a lot. However, this does…Continue Reading Editing – pep up your prose
A guest post by Dr Emma Kennedy of Queen Mary, University of London as part of the #HEblogswap initiative September has always been a bittersweet time for me. Like many, I always feel that September is a new beginning (having been ruled by the academic calendar continuously since I started school 25 years ago). However,…Continue Reading Stress-Free September? Starting the new academic year
The annual Association for Learning Technology’s conference took place from 5th – 7th September, you can see the daily keynotes which were streamed and recorded via the conference programme.You can also check out the Twitter hashtag #altc or see the ALT-C 2017 Flickr album for photographs. On the third day, I attended in person, to…Continue Reading Planning for Pedagogy Space and Technology Workshop at ALT-C 2017