Year: 2019

Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Janet Hunter and Karen Rawlings-Anderson, School of Health Sciences

In our third Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Study we hear from Senior Lecturers Janet Hunter and Karen Rawlings-Anderson from the School of Health Sciences. Both Janet and Karen began their careers as nurses and have been teaching at City for nineteen and twenty-eight years respectively. Janet and Karen have developed a range of…Continue Reading Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Janet Hunter and Karen Rawlings-Anderson, School of Health Sciences

Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Professor Scott Moeller

In the second of our Research and Practice Informed Teaching case studies we hear from Professor Scott Moeller, who has been teaching at Cass Business School since 2003. Scott is director of the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre at Cass and the former CEO and Director of Executive Education. He has twenty-four years of industry…Continue Reading Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Professor Scott Moeller

Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Dr Luke McDonagh, The City Law School

To mark the launch of the new Learning Enhancement and Development Educational Research (LEaDER) Centre, LEaD wanted to celebrate examples of best practice in relation to teaching and learning at City, University of London. As part of this, we have conducted a series of interviews with staff whose teaching is informed by their research and/or…Continue Reading Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Dr Luke McDonagh, The City Law School

Calling all City bloggers – relaunch event for the LEaD Writing Group

Writing

The LEaD Writing Group was established in 2016 at the Learning at City 2016 Conference, by Dan Sansome and Dom Pates. Dan has now left City and the group hasn’t met for a while. But after much arm twisting (i.e. none) Dom has persuaded me to run this informal writing group with him. The group…Continue Reading Calling all City bloggers – relaunch event for the LEaD Writing Group

Register for the Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-learning Conference 2019

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

Crowd displayed on an iPhone 7

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