Following changes to dates for assessment, resits and assessments boards, Information Technology has made some changes to the previously advertised Moodle maintenance. Moodle will now be unavailable from 8pm Friday 17th July to 8am Monday 20th July 2020, this is to update Moodle to the latest release (v3.8) and optimise the database. During this time,…Continue Reading Moodle 3:8 Update to Key Dates
Demonstrating via hand written exposition is a powerful and essential teaching tool for many subjects. How then might we emulate this experience in the current online teaching scenarios? Using a tablet might be the answer, as iPads, Tablets and Microsoft Surface devices all have built in tools to help replicate our teaching Pods, the short…Continue Reading How best to emulate the use of the whiteboard in online lectures?
I joined a webinar last month from Germany which was thought provoking and slightly comforting in that it confirmed we are all in the same perplexing situation about what our university will look like in the future. But this is short post on the key points discussed. ‘Do we need new places for learning?’ The…Continue Reading Campus of the Future
In March 2020 the Educational Technology Team (ETT), which is part of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) at City, University of London (City) was asked a simple question: The request Can you create an online version of a week-long module for the Department of Journalism’s Master’s (MA) students that involves high profile guests answering questions…Continue Reading Moving face-to-face teaching online, with Professor Barney Jones, Laura Kuenssberg and Angela Rayner
Please note that the date for the update has changed. Updated information is available from: Moodle 3:8 Update to Key Dates Moodle will be unavailable from 8pm Friday 3rd July to 8am Monday 6th July 2020. This is to update Moodle to the latest release (v3.8), optimise the database and allow enough time to resolve any…Continue Reading Moodle 3.8 Key Dates
You may need tinfoil, an ethernet cable and curtains plus a DVD player. While we are all studying or working online from home, it pays to spend some time finding out how to get and keep a good connection to the internet. This selection of tips is gathered from various sources, including OFCOM, WikiHow, The…Continue Reading Expert tips for getting and keeping a good connection to the internet
In one of my last pub outings in late February, I met up with a friend, a retired NHS consultant, now a life coach to practicing doctors. She had just been to a presentation by the existential psychotherapist Ernesto Spinelli and was inspired by his talk on ‘uncertainty’. Over my large G&T, I asked her…Continue Reading Competencies and uncertainty
With reference to this blog from earlier in the year – https://blogs.city.ac.uk/learningatcity/2020/01/13/what-type-of-learning-spaces-should-we-design-for-our-students/#.XqqzXy-ZPOQ It seems appropriate to add that with the current Covid-19 crisis, higher education is facing an enormous challenge in how to respond to the situation and how to adapt to an uncertain future. One strategic approach is to think about what is important…Continue Reading What Type of Learning Spaces Should We Design for our Students? Update
Like many people we have been struggling to cope with what’s happening in the world since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Daily communication is now entirely mediated by technology of some form such as Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom and whichever platform is needed. However as two people working in educational technology we are finding it…Continue Reading Teaching Online Learning in a Time of Crisis
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy,…Continue Reading In at the deep end: teaching online at short notice