Are you aiming for Gold in Assessment & Feedback? This week sees the launch of the Learning at City 2012 Conference . City University London staff and students are invited to attend the 4th Annual Learning at City Conference which focuses on improving student learning through enhanced assessment & feedback. The one day event will include:…Continue Reading Learning @ City 2012 Conference Launch
This event was organised by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Tuesday 8th May Queen Mary’s University of London Judging Teaching Excellence – A Student Achievements Awards perspective. The day started with a presentation from Craig Best, Vice-President Academic Representation from Brunel University. Craig outlined the student led teaching awards which have been introduced at…Continue Reading A Successful Student Experience: Implications for Academic Performance.
On the curriculum design and evaluation module Angela Dove and I ran a student engagement workshop. This workshop focused on why students should be engaged in designing curriculum but also how we might do this so it was meaningful. The session used a framework from the Learner Voice a handbook from futurelab published in 2006….Continue Reading Student Engagement Workshop
The MILL: Guest Starring iTunes U event was held on 1st November 2011 and was designed to launch both iTunes U and the MILL at City University London, making staff aware of how both can help to develop their teaching practice. Coordinated by Sandra Partington, Steve McCombe, Siân Lindsay and Sara Reimers, who came up…Continue Reading The MILL: Guest Starring iTunes U
Inspired by the recent Digital Researchers event which I blogged about in this previous post, I was keen to provide a workshop to try out some of the social media tools and ideas which I learned about there. With the enthusiastic support of Emily Allbon from Library Services, and the LDC’s intrepid researcher Ajmal Sultany,…Continue Reading Digital Researchers Workshop
Innovation in Assessment: the student learning experience 23.02.2012 This is a report on an HEA-sponsored workshop and seminar that showcased innovation in assessment practice at University College London. Details of the presentations are available on this link. A brief summary of the sessions is given below. Introduction Following introductions from Professor Anthony Smith, UCL Vice-Provost,…Continue Reading Higher Education Academy Seminar Series
On Thursday 24 November 2011, the Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG) hosted a one-day seminar, ‘The efficiency and effectiveness of assessment in challenging times’ at Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London. To open the seminar, Dr Marie Stowell (University of Worcester) set out the context for the day in her presentation ‘Efficiency and effectiveness…Continue Reading Review: SACWG seminar, ‘The efficiency and effectiveness of assessment in challenging times’
An innovation to this year’s Learning Development Centre Showcase event was to open with a debate. The suggestion to hold a debate came from the Associate Deans for Education and the theme was chosen to reflect the focus of the LDC’s work for this year on Assessment and Feedback, which will also form the focus…Continue Reading LDC Showcase debate 1st February 2012
Digital Researcher 2012. British Library 20.02.2012. Having been placed on the waiting list for this event I was pleased to discover three days beforehand that I had managed to squeeze in as one of the 113 participants in the Digital Researcher 2012 workshop at the British Library. There were many more virtual participants via Twitter…Continue Reading Digital Researcher 2012
What do Cowboys and Higher Education Technology have in common? Nothing!! Well that’s not exactly true, the connection is that one of the largest Educational Technology organizations was in Texas last week and I with two fellow City University London colleagues were there to witness it. Last week I presented at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative…Continue Reading What do Cowboys and Higher Education Technology have in common? EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012