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…
Learning & Teaching
Planning your first online teaching session?
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…
Virtualising the LEaD Writing Group
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…
Fearless Facilitation – 7 confidence boosting tips that will make your virtual meetings sing! A review
By Connie Tse and Elisabetta Lando (Educational Technologists in LEaD) Like many people in recent months, we are finding ourselves having to present a lot more online. Not being able to physically interact, read body language,…
Reviewing Programme Design – understanding the students’ perspective
The Challenge The last few months have been hugely chaotic for me. Working remotely wasn’t a surprise, but I hadn’t considered that this space would need to be shared between me and my hubby….
‘Too long; didn’t read’? An Interview with Emily Allbon
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…
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…
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