In our blog writing guidance, we suggest you write with an audience in mind. We discussed this topic in February’s Blog Writing Group. It can be a challenge to think who your audience is. Joseph Lalonde recommends having a specific person in mind to write to. This could be: Your past self Your present self Your…Continue Reading Who’s your audience? I am!
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is the leading membership organisation in the field of educational technology with the objective to “advance education through increasing, exploring and disseminating knowledge in the field of Learning Technology for the benefit of the general public”. This year sees the 25th Annual conference, taking place in Manchester from 11-13…Continue Reading Call for proposals – Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference
Do you use tools like Skype or Adobe Connect in your teaching or collaborative research? Have you ever tried to bring a remote speaker into a seminar, or attempted a live collaboration between people at different sites? How well do your webinars run, when all participants are dispersed across different sites? On Wednesday Feb 21st…Continue Reading ‘I’ll Skype You In’ – LEaD event for International City Week
Let me first start by introducing myself. I have recently completed my degree in Civil Engineering with Architecture and joined the LEaD team as a winter intern at City, supervised by Julie Voce, Head of Educational Technology and I met Sheila Egan who is the Learning Spaces Lead, part of the Educational Technology Team…Continue Reading A fresh view on Learning Spaces
Following the success of our workshop on The Pedagogy of Space, Dom Pates and I were invited to present at Anglia Ruskin’s Active Learning Conference It was very successful with an encouraging level of engagement from delegates, shown below engaged with our two activities. The first activity was to evaluate two learning spaces whist adopting…Continue Reading Active Learning & Teaching Conference, Anglia Ruskin University 12.9.17 #altalc
How many of us at City feel that we have too much time on our hands? I guess most of us consider time our rarest commodity, and yet hundreds of staff and students are making time in their day to slow down and focus on themselves using the Ten Minute Mind. So what? Thursday 1st…Continue Reading How many of us at City feel that we have too much time on our hands?
A good practice guide – How to be excellent at Assessment and Feedback This year is the 10th year of the Learning at City Conference and to celebrate this and all the good practice that takes place across the institution we are launching an annual Good Practice Guide that will be published as a booklet and…Continue Reading Call for case studies on assessment and/or feedback
A frequent question in the blog writing sessions is – how can I make my writing more conversational? Relax is my first piece of advice. Don’t worry too much about the grammar and let your personality shine through. Henneke Duistermaat suggests some helpful tips to make your writing sound more conversational: Don’t write for everybody – think about…Continue Reading Want to make your posts more conversational? Read this…
A new research article by UCISA’s Digital Education Group, co-authored by City’s Head of Educational Technology, Julie Voce, has just been published on technology enhanced learning developments across the UK higher sector. ‘The rhetoric and reality of technology-enhanced learning in UK HE’ reviews the investment in TEL tools and services that UK higher education institutions…Continue Reading Technology-enhanced learning developments across UK higher education (2012-2016) – new UCISA research article
Throughout 2017, the Educational Technology Team in the School of Arts and Social Sciences collected a number of case studies highlighting the efforts of Lecturers to make their teaching and learning more engaging and pedagogically sound with the use of educational technologies. One of these case studies looked at the work of an International Politics…Continue Reading School of Arts and Social Sciences – Video Case Studies