On the 6th June, Echo hosted an Active Learning Conference at Kings College London which members of LEaD and Educational Research and Enterprise Systems (ERES, part of IT) attended. The aim of the event was…
Learning Spaces
Reflections in Time and Twitter: a walk of City’s Learning Spaces
As part of the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG) lunchtime Twitter walk activity, members of staff at City took part in our first Twitter Walk, or Twalk yesterday afternoon. The basic premise was similar…
Considerations for a Law (CLS) specific future-proofed lecture theatre
In June 2015 the LEaD team ran a focus group with academic staff in the City Law school (CLS) who use the Atkin Lecture Theatre to deliver the schools professional programmes. This review took place…
Learning Spaces Group – 26th April 2017
The Learning Spaces Group met on 26th April, to discuss a variety of issues around Learning Spaces and in-class technologies in the Franklin Building. The areas covered were as follows: An update on the Designing Active…
Co-designing with Jisc
Potential tech futures for education and research (long read alert) How might digital technologies transform education and research by 2020-2030? As City is looking towards the coming decade in our newly-launched Vision and Strategy, Jisc…
Sketches for a Smart Campus
1/ Been collecting some thoughts on the #intelligentcampus (or #smartcampus, for character brevity) for @JISC’s #codesign16. #learningspaces — Dom Pates (@dompates) November 23, 2016 A few weeks ago, I noticed on Twitter that JISC was…
Introducing City’s new flagship lecture theatre
Overview Last month saw the opening of B200, a new lecture theatre in University Building that is set to become one of City’s flagship learning spaces. The theatre is now live, with the first timetabled…
DALI – a collaborative approach to learning space design – for Higher Education
What is DALI? The Designing Active Learning Initiative (DALI) is a collaboration between City’s schools and professional services (Information Services, Learning enhancement and development and Property and Facilities) which began in January 2015. Funding has…
Highlights from the Educational Technology & Learning Spaces Staff Survey 2016
At the end of last year (Oct 15 – Dec 15), City University London staff were invited to participate in LEaD‘s annual Educational Technology and Learning Spaces survey. This was an opportunity for staff to…
5 Things to Do with Poll Everywhere
In our continuing series ‘5 Things to do with…’, we look at Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is the web based version of the physical clickers. It can be run from any web enabled device via…