A few months ago I was honoured to find out I had been appointed to the Intellectual Property Office’s governance group, the Copyright Advisory Panel. This group is largely made up of senior representatives from the creative industries and I am the first member of the group to represent the higher education sector. The Panel…Continue Reading Copyright, technology and teaching
This year MoodleMoot took place in Glasgow. MoodleMoot is an annual event that gathers educators, technologists, developers from across Europe showcasing innovation, best practices, new ideas based around teaching with Moodle. In this blog post, I’ll share few trends and things that I learned by attending this event. This year’s conference focused on these…Continue Reading MoodleMoot 2018
I’ve done some exciting things during my thirteen (and a third) years at City, but I think this just about caps the lot. It was just before my last appraisal meeting that the idea of jumping off a tall building first came to mind. I was a little bit early for the meeting (I just…Continue Reading Sky-diving from College Building clock tower
Moodle will be updated on 24/25 July 2018. The focus of the Moodle 3.4 update will be on redesigning City’s Moodle. The requirements for the re-design of City’s Moodle have been informed by three years of user evaluation with staff and students. Synergy Learning have been selected as City’s partner to provide visual and front-end…Continue Reading Moodle 3.4: New Look for City’s Moodle
This is a guest post, from Prof Leigh A Hall of the University of Wyoming, on Critical Digital Pedagogy. Critical Digital Pedagogy (CDP) is a philosophical approach to teaching that applies concepts of critical pedagogy within a digital context. Under a critical pedagogical approach, we want to create experiences that allow students opportunities to question and challenge dominant beliefs…Continue Reading Understanding Critical Digital Pedagogy
INTRODUCING SEGMENTED QUIZZING Keen to try and add some team-based gaming elements to your teaching, but not sure where to start? Feel like you’ve taken Poll Everywhere about as far as you can in your classes, but would still like to take it to a next level? I might have just this thing for you….Continue Reading Team-based Quizzing with Poll Everywhere
The Drysdale Ground floor is one of the most heavily utlised spaces on the City, University of London campus. With over 200 open access student PC spaces and five PC teaching labs the floor has been completely remodeled, refreshed and updated to meet the needs of our students, and provide new, flexible learning spaces. …Continue Reading New Flexible Learning and Open Access PC Spaces at City, University of London
Opening Conference Welcome and Key Notes The welcome was provided by Antonio Garcia Ricos from the organising committee. He focused on the 10 Trends transforming Education as we know it report published by the EU in 2017. The 10 trends include: • The earlier the better • Graduation is not the end of learning •…Continue Reading INTED 12th International Technology, Education and Development Conference 2018 5th – 6th March 2018 in Valencia Spain
University Mental Health Day is today (1st of March). This year’s theme is CommUNIty. There is a long and well established link between mental health and community. A sense of belonging, social support and your environment can directly affect your mental wellbeing. Thinking about this theme really resonates with many people’s experiences as a student…Continue Reading University Mental Health Day 2018
I attended Turnitin’s Academic Integrity Conference in Newcastle on 19th October 2017. The afternoon sessions focused on academic integrity and the new front in plagiarism – contract cheating. This was a very timely discussion with the release of the QAA’s report on Contracting to Cheat in Higher Education So while Turnitin may help in identify…Continue Reading Turnitin Academic Integrity Conference