I have been most fortunate this year to have had the privilege of attending several events at our university and I am truly grateful for that especially after returning from my second maternity leave. When you…
Conferences & Events
Did you know that City has the second highest percentage of commuter students in the UK?
According to a recent report by HEPI, 63.9% of full-time, UK domiciled, undergraduate students are living in the ‘parental/guardian home’, which means they are classed as ‘commuter students’. Before coming to City, I have to…
Students as Producers: the Digital History Vault
In June, the School of Arts and Social Sciences held its first Learning and Teaching Awards. Our own Connie Tse and Dina Fainberg, lecturer in Modern History, presented the Digital Vault project, a student-produced database…
The Design and Management of Learning Environments – ‘Integrated Approaches for Influencing Value and Change’
Back in May I attended the Learning Environments conference with colleague Dom Pates. The event was held at the Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park London, with academic and professional delegates from higher education, architect companies, developers, design…
Designing Learning Environments To Encourage Collaboration – An afternoon fringe event to the Learning Environments Conference
The day before the main Learning Environments conference, Dom Pates and I ran a new Pedagogy of Space workshop, subtitled; ‘Why Do We Put Furniture in a Learning Space?’ This is a new addition to…
Calling all bloggers! come do a ‘show off’ at the LEaD blog writing group!
For the past 6 months or so Dom Pates and I have been hosting the LEaD Blog writing group. It’s usually the first week of the month at lunchtime and we’ve varied the day to…
Snakes and ladders, discovering my digital skills and other highlights from EUNIS19
Would you like to play a game? One of my favourite sessions at EUNIS19 was the snakes and ladders game presented by Gill Ferrell and Eleanor Magennis based on the ucisa Learning Spaces toolkit. The…
Bricks will be replaced by clicks – Campus for the future – EUNIS19
“Bricks will be replaced by clicks” they said in the early 2000s, suggesting a move away from physical campuses in favour of more virtual spaces, with campus managers becoming IT managers. Fast forward 19 years…
HCID Open day 2019-Design for Good
Good things can happen I wasn’t quite sure what I was expecting on this Open Day held by the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design (HCID) at City. Would it all be a bit…
Learning Design with ABC
This post provides a summary of why and how the ABC Learning Design method has been adapted and used by other institutions that presented during a sharing event organised at UCL in June, and attended…
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