Way back in the pre-Covid era, I recall watching Emily Allbon’s emerging work in an area that she called legal design with great interest. As I understood it, legal design was a relatively new…
Learning & Teaching
Webinars – Why Do We Bother?
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…
How best to emulate the use of the whiteboard in online lectures?
Demonstrating via hand written exposition is a powerful and essential teaching tool for many subjects. How then might we emulate this experience in the current online teaching scenarios? Using a tablet might be the answer,…
Campus of the Future
I joined a webinar last month from Germany which was thought provoking and slightly comforting in that it confirmed we are all in the same perplexing situation about what our university will look like in…
Moving face-to-face teaching online, with Professor Barney Jones, Laura Kuenssberg and Angela Rayner
In March 2020 the Educational Technology Team (ETT), which is part of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) at City, University of London (City) was asked a simple question: The request Can you create an online…
Competencies and uncertainty
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…
What Type of Learning Spaces Should We Design for our Students? Update
With reference to this blog from earlier in the year – https://blogs.city.ac.uk/learningatcity/2020/01/13/what-type-of-learning-spaces-should-we-design-for-our-students/#.XqqzXy-ZPOQ It seems appropriate to add that with the current Covid-19 crisis, higher education is facing an enormous challenge in how to respond to…
Teaching Online Learning in a Time of Crisis
Like many people we have been struggling to cope with what’s happening in the world since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Daily communication is now entirely mediated by technology of some form such as Microsoft…
In at the deep end: teaching online at short notice
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there,…
Revisiting Flipped learning for online engagement
This is part three of my write up about the ELSE project event that I attended in Milan at the beginning of February just a couple of weeks before the current outbreak of COVID 19…
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