If the answer is Yes then please make contact with the City Digital Education Team. We are really keen to collate recent case studies of modules that have used Teams Sites that help students along with their Moodle Modules. Here’s why Teams Sites can be a helpful addition to your Moodle Module. Teams Sites can…Continue Reading Are you using Teams Sites with your students?
What music gets you ready for teaching or learning? Have you ever thought about having a walk up or entrance song? Join Jane Secker and Julie Voce from LEaD on ALT-C23 Radio on Tuesday 5 September, 2-3pm (BST) via thethursdaynightshow.com to hear about how we have used music as an icebreaker and for building community…Continue Reading What music gets you ready for teaching or learning?
In July 2023 I attended the Playful Learning conference at the University of Leicester and presented a workshop with Susannah Quinsee, our former Director of LEaD, now the VP Digital and Student Experience. This is the second of two blog posts about the research we presented at the conference. You can read my first blog…Continue Reading Playful Learning: a place of fun and joy part 2
In July 2023 I attended the Playful Learning conference at the University of Leicester and presented a workshop with Susannah Quinsee, the former Director of LEaD, now the Vice President Digital and Student Experience. This is the first of two blog posts about the research we presented at the conference. However, it was my second…Continue Reading Playful Learning: a place of fun and joy
Heading back into the room Early 2022, the tide of the immediate pandemic crisis was beginning to recede. Like many of us, I found myself reacclimatising to not having to focus on such a regular and consistent basis on Covid mitigations. As Winter turned to Spring, I began dipping my toe back into being in the physical…Continue Reading Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire
This blogpost details how I redesigned and taught an undergraduate history module in 2019, with a particular focus on the development and implementation of enabling students to choose the format of their assessments. I have discussed this briefly before for Jisc, here I go into more detail in support of a poster presentation on this…Continue Reading Enabling student choice in assessment #AHEconference2023
I recently attended a free online CPD course run by the Active Learning Network on inclusive communities. Over three online sessions in November, several contributors from the book 100 ideas for active learning presented their ideas and encouraged attendees to try out their activities individually or collaboratively in breakout groups. The workshops were inspiring and thought…Continue Reading 100 ideas for Active learning
Earlier this month, City hosted a workshop on digital transformation run by HolonIQ. The workshop was led by Maria Spies, Co-CEO and Meg Hamel, VP Education, both from HolonIQ and included participants from City and other UK higher education institutions. To set the scene for the workshop, Maria asked us to respond to a couple…Continue Reading Thinking about digital transformation – report from HolonIQ Digital Transformation workshop
A few weeks ago I went to the University of Glasgow to a 2 day conference organised by CREATe who are the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre. I was invited to attend the Copyright Evidence Conference and contribute to the event based on my expertise related to copyright and online learning. CREATe are an…Continue Reading CREATe Evidence Conference – reforming copyright through evidence
Blogging guest from the LSE Towards the end of the last academic year, we were delighted to welcome Michael Taster, the Managing Editor of the LSE Impact Blog to our blog writing group. Michael shared some fascinating insights into how to run a high profile academic blog, how to find new content for the blog…Continue Reading Editing a multi-author blog: experiences from the LSE Impact Blog