Futurefest rightly describes itself as ‘Nesta’s flagship weekend event of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers to excite and challenge perceptions of the future.’ The event sprawled across the inspiring spaces of Vinopolis and brought together techies, thinkers, academics, artists, futurologists, journalists, writers, designers and robots. So many ideas that were conceptual at the beginning…Continue Reading Futurefest
Now in its 30th year, the British Education Trade and Technology (BETT) Show 2015 took place at the Excel Centre in London in January. The BETT show has become one of the largest educational technology shows in the world and there were many exhibitors and speakers of interest to myself and my Learning Spaces colleagues….Continue Reading BETT-er Learning Spaces and more – Reflections from the BETT Show 2015
This Thursday at 2pm, Educational Technologists Martin Agombar and Mo Pamplin are presenting a webinar as part of a series run by the Media and Learning Association. We will be talking about our experiences of working with academic colleagues on video resource projects. If you are creating your own video-based learning resources, want to know…Continue Reading Media and Learning webinar: The creation of videos to support students’ learning
The theme for this year’s Learning at City Conference will focus on inclusive learning and the call for abstracts is now open to City University Staff. This year will mark the 7th successful year of the annual conference and will see it being held off-site and open to external presenters and delegates for the second year…Continue Reading ‘Is learning for all?’ – a conference on inclusive learning.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, Quebec, Canada, 22-25 October. In October 2014, I attended the ISSOTL Conference for the first time. The theme of the conference was Nurturing Passion and Creativity in Teaching and Learning. The event was hosted by Université Laval and held at the Convention Center in…Continue Reading Teaching, learning, creativity and passion in higher education: notes from a conference about scholarship of teaching and learning
European Conference of Educational Research (ECER) Porto, Portugal, 01-05 September 2014 Researching higher education: 20 years of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research, Lancaster University, 12 September 2014 ECER, 2014: In September 2014, I participated in two events each marking 20 year anniversaries in educational research. First, I attended the European Conference of Educational Research…Continue Reading Celebrating 20 years of educational research: reflections on two anniversaries
149 institutions participated in Changing the Learning Landscape, a HEFCE funded partnership programme supporting technology enhanced learning change initiatives. The projects have now finished and the Leading the Learning Landscape Network aims to continue to support those engaged in innovation and experimentation, grow a community of practice and offer practical help to those involved in…Continue Reading Leading the Learning Landscape Network
If you were to ask me ‘how can we enhance the student experience?’, the first thing I’d do is debunk the concept entirely. The ‘student experience’ is generic, its broad brush painting the idea of a homogenous, maleable entity whose university life and satisfaction can be molded into the most pleasing shape. This is probably…Continue Reading Enhancing the Student Experience…one panel at a time
Learning@City 2013 In 2013 the Learning Development Centre invited Graham Gibbs to be the keynote speaker at our annual learning and teaching conference Learning@City. The theme of the conference was Assessment and Feedback and Graham Gibbs is an expert in that area, having carried out substantial research, much as part of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), Transforming…Continue Reading Revisiting Graham Gibbs – Improving Student Learning Through Assessment and Feedback
This conference focused on both the challenges and opportunities created by the changes that technologies have brought about over the last few years. The sessions covered both tools that people were using and views on the benefits of these and how to enhance them as well as reflecting on where all this might be leading…Continue Reading 19th Annual SEDA Conference 2014 – Opportunities and challenges for academic development in a post-digital age Nottingham