The University of London Centre for Distance Education has opened registration for their annual conference, Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-learning 2019, which will be held on Friday 15th March in Senate House, University of London. The title of this year’s conference is ‘Addressing the challenges of digital education: Professional development and student…Continue Reading Register for the Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-learning Conference 2019
Job opportunity: Educational Technologist (fixed term, 18 months)
Educational Technologist (Fixed-term, 18 months) at City, University of London Salary: £37,345 to £43,267 Closing date: Tuesday 12 February 2019, 11:59pm Interviews – w/c 25 February 2019 View job description City, University of London seeks to recruit a fixed term (18 months) Educational Technologist as part of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD). LEaD is a…Continue Reading Job opportunity: Educational Technologist (fixed term, 18 months)
Paper on the Effective Use of Video, a Literature Review
It is fair to say that the utilisation of video can provide significant and important differences to learning and teaching, especially when today’s students have a wide diversity of educational experiences and expectations. For example, the challenge of re-imagining a traditional one-hour lecture can be viewed as ‘disruptive pedagogy’, (Kinash, Knight, and McLean 2015) with exciting opportunities…Continue Reading Paper on the Effective Use of Video, a Literature Review
LEaDER Launch
On Tuesday 8th January 2019 Professor Andrew Jones, Vice-President (Research & Enterprise), launched the LEaDER centre alongside Professor Susannah Quinsee and Professor Pam Parker. Professor Tansy Jessop Professor of Research Informed Teaching at Solent University provided a stimulating keynote on the untapped potential of pedagogic research. Tansy focused on the arguments for pedagogic research which…Continue Reading LEaDER Launch
New Active Learning Space for Journalism
Background The academic vision was for a contemporary learning environment that should be modelled on a broadcast newsroom designed for multiple channels, by integrating the work flow across TV, radio, online and print. The approach was to design a collaborative space, where students are led through the curriculum and practical sessions, that mirrors a typical…Continue Reading New Active Learning Space for Journalism
Teaching and Learning, Wirelessly
Bringing it all together and moving forward This is the final in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers lessons learned so far from investigating this new technology, thoughts on what mobile learning can bring to HE, and what the next steps are…Continue Reading Teaching and Learning, Wirelessly
Sweet Phone Chicago, Part Two
Further reflections on mLearn 2018 This is the fifth in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It provides further reporting on a visit to mLearn 2018, as well as reflections on being mobile in America, and some additional flavours of Chicago. Kicking off proceedings…Continue Reading Sweet Phone Chicago, Part Two
Sweet Phone Chicago, Part One
Reflections on the 17th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning This is the fourth in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers arriving at mLearn 2018, an international conference on mobile learning set in Chicago, and reports on the main points from…Continue Reading Sweet Phone Chicago, Part One
‘We Are Our Choices’ – Learning To Make Good Decisions
Scenario Based Learning Conference, hosted by St. George’s, University of London in October 2018 If you would like to see some of the key presentations, they have been published here, opens in You Tube. I attended this conference with my ETT colleague Thomas Hanley, as well as a number of academic staff from City’s School of…Continue Reading ‘We Are Our Choices’ – Learning To Make Good Decisions
Tackling the Mobile Learning Paradox
On mobile learning and higher education This is the third in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers a paradox identified in trying to facilitate greater use of mobile devices in learning spaces, the emergence of an overarching research question, and some wider…Continue Reading Tackling the Mobile Learning Paradox