Category: Conferences & Events

Internal, external, upcoming and past…

Engaging Employability Event…

Advance HE Employability Symposium May 2019  As a brief background, I am a Senior Lecturer in Therapeutic Radiography and am involved in the ongoing development of employability support in the School of Health Sciences. I recently attended the Advance HE Employability Symposium in York on 30th June at which delegates from across the UK presented…Continue Reading Engaging Employability Event…

Teaching and Learning Innovators Event – May 2019

LEaD’s Teaching and Learning Innovators event returned in April with presenters from the School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS) and the School of Health Sciences (SHS). The idea behind this event is to provide an opportunity for staff to share innovative teaching and learning practices and to learn from each other. Elliot Freeman (Psychology)…Continue Reading Teaching and Learning Innovators Event – May 2019

City Learning and Teaching Forum – Classroom Management

The next lunchtime forum will be on Wednesday 22nd May | ELG03 | 12:30 – 14:00 | The focus of the Forum will be on classroom management. We will discuss some of the common issues that staff at City experience in their classrooms that relate to student behaviour and consider how well the expectations of…Continue Reading City Learning and Teaching Forum – Classroom Management

MoodleMoot 2019

Matt and Olivia joined Moodle users from UK and Ireland at the annual MoodleMoot in April. If you look really hard, you’ll be able to spot us in the group photo in the far left of the shot! Group photo at #MootIEUK19 ! pic.twitter.com/rAckFHUui2 — 🎓 Martin Dougiamas (@moodler) 17 April 2019   Highlights Adaptive…Continue Reading MoodleMoot 2019

Tickets to RIDE

Senate House, University of London

  Last month, a handful of City staff joined other delegates in the auspicious surroundings of Senate House, for the University of London’s Centre for Distance Education flagship event. The 13th Research and Innovation in Distance Education annual conference (RIDE) was themed this year around addressing the challenges of digital education, looking at both professional…Continue Reading Tickets to RIDE

2nd Cass Teaching and Learning Exchange

Lecture Capture panel discussion

Following the success of last year’s Cass Teaching and Learning Exchange, 30 academic and professional staff came together for the 2nd Cass Teaching and Learning Exchange on 12th March at Bunhill Row. The two-hour lunchtime event was introduced by Dr Martin Rich, Course Director, BSc Business Management, who co-hosted with Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD)….Continue Reading 2nd Cass Teaching and Learning Exchange

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

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

Sweet Phone Chicago, Part Two

'Towards Wireless Collaboration' poster (Pates, 2018)

Further reflections on mLearn 2018 This is the fifth in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It provides further reporting on a visit to mLearn 2018, as well as reflections on being mobile in America, and some additional flavours of Chicago. Kicking off proceedings…Continue Reading Sweet Phone Chicago, Part Two

Sweet Phone Chicago, Part One

Conference freebie - a 3D-printed robot phone holder, plus iPhone 6s

Reflections on the 17th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning This is the fourth in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers arriving at mLearn 2018, an international conference on mobile learning set in Chicago, and reports on the main points from…Continue Reading Sweet Phone Chicago, Part One