The idea behind the LEaD Light lunch sessions was to ask academic and professional colleagues to give short informal talks on topics relating to digital technology and online teaching. Another reason was to build…
Posts By Elisabetta Lando
Why build online communities in H.E?
During lockdown, I started exploring online communities in education in a bit more detail; how do they work? What is a successful community and can they really help in difficult times? I looked at Lave…
Fearless Facilitation – 7 confidence boosting tips that will make your virtual meetings sing! A review
By Connie Tse and Elisabetta Lando (Educational Technologists in LEaD) Like many people in recent months, we are finding ourselves having to present a lot more online. Not being able to physically interact, read body language,…
Competencies and uncertainty
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…
Revisiting Flipped learning for online engagement
This is part three of my write up about the ELSE project event that I attended in Milan at the beginning of February just a couple of weeks before the current outbreak of COVID 19…
Teaching 21st century competencies through simulation. ELSE Part 2
In my previous blog about the ELSE European project I gave an introduction to some of the ideas that struck me as being key. Here I will look at one of its outputs. The E-core…
Eco/logical learning and simulation environments in H.E.Part 1
Milan-home of Dolce e Gabbana, aperitivos and great front doors! But also of the polytechnic of Milan. I am here for ELSE, an Erasmus + Project on digital technologies and pedagogical innovation in HE. I…
Interested in Team-based learning?
Team-based learning is not new and has a long history particularly in America. Larry Michaelson, a Professor of Business Management, who helped to establish the TBL approach in the 1970’s, explains: The primary learning objective…
E-assessment journey. Examining excellence
In December I attended a conference on e-assessments at BPP University. For me the day seemed to develop in two ways; one focusing more on the philosophy of assessment and the other on the practical…
Reflections on Sticky Campus and the dynamics of Smart Learning
In my former life as a teacher, I did not think much about learning spaces, as long as I had chairs and tables that could be moved around for group work I was quite happy. …
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