When creating teaching materials there are a wealth of re-usable educational resources that lecturers and teachers around the world share for others to use and adapt in their teaching. Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) are running an online workshop to help you find re-usable resources for your teaching These re-usable resources are called open educational…Continue Reading Finding and using re-usable teaching materials
With the start of term fast approaching many of you may be planning to teach online for the first time. Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) are running online workshops to help you prepare for teaching online in 2020/21. Planning your first online teaching session This session will help you build an engaged online learning…Continue Reading Planning your first online teaching session?
As some of you may know, we run the LEaD Blog Writing group, which is an informal network of colleagues who are interested in carving out some time each month to focus on getting some writing done or to get some technical assistance with using the blogging tools that City makes available. The sessions are…Continue Reading Virtualising the LEaD Writing Group
https://association.media-and-learning.eu/portal/about-association This years’ Media and Learning conference like so many others, was held online over the course of 2 days in June 2020. I was due to attend in Belgium and present a paper on the video and multimedia project for the SHS Mental Health Nursing module completed last year. Its a truly European event…Continue Reading Media and Learning – Online Conference Highlights Part 2
https://association.media-and-learning.eu/portal/about-association This years’ Media and Learning conference like so many others, was held online over the course of 2 days in June 2020. I was due to attend in Belgium and present a paper on the video and multimedia project for the SHS Mental Health Nursing module completed last year. Its a truly European event…Continue Reading Media and Learning – Online Conference Highlights Part 1
You may have heard the phrase, let’s not waste a crisis? So why not sign up to lots of webinars to keep ourselves informed and occupied whilst trying to work from home. I’m sure that your inbox holds numerous invitations to webinars and online conferences, promising the holy grail for these times. Magic solutions to…Continue Reading Webinars – Why Do We Bother?
In one of my last pub outings in late February, I met up with a friend, a retired NHS consultant, now a life coach to practicing doctors. She had just been to a presentation by the existential psychotherapist Ernesto Spinelli and was inspired by his talk on ‘uncertainty’. Over my large G&T, I asked her…Continue Reading Competencies and uncertainty
Milan-home of Dolce e Gabbana, aperitivos and great front doors! But also of the polytechnic of Milan. I am here for ELSE, an Erasmus + Project on digital technologies and pedagogical innovation in HE. I am especially curious to see how these ideas are developing in Italy and there were some great presentations by academics…Continue Reading Eco/logical learning and simulation environments in H.E.Part 1
This is the third post in my #ArchiveReflections series – looking back on events I’ve been part of but never got round to writing about at the time. — Last May, I was delighted to be able to co-deliver a pre-sessional workshop and attend the subsequent annual one-day Learning Environments conference, at the invitation of…Continue Reading 10 takeaways from Learning Environments conference
LEaD is pleased to open the Call for Abstracts, for the Learning at City Conference, which takes place on the 1st and 2nd July 2020 at City, University of London. There is much discussion about teaching excellence with the introduction of the TEF however the key to this is teaching that inspires. Cohen & Jurkovic (1997)…Continue Reading Call for Abstracts : Learning at City Conference – NOW OPEN