Digifest, now online With Jisc being an aggregator of much that happens in the digital education space across the UK higher education (HE) sector – from the Janet network and learning analytics to exploring the…
Learning & Teaching
Virtual Moots – Challenges and Opportunities
I was fortunate enough to partake in the Moots again this year. This is my third year running and I am pleased to be able to help my colleagues at CLS to help students in…
Is chat where it’s at?
With the rapid shift to online teaching, it is easy to forget that we’re now communicating with our students via software that was, in many cases, designed for business meetings rather than for education. A key feature of some of these platforms (a Microsoft Teams Meeting, for example)…
New Learning Analytics Pilot System to help identify students needing support
LEaD and IT have launched a new Learning Analytics Pilot System, to help staff identify students who may not be engaging with their studies, in order to provide them with tailored support. The dashboard provides staff with…
How can we teach our Labs online?
Moving to remote practicals for Engineers “We knew drawing on expertise from elsewhere in the sector would be necessary to help us to address this significant challenge at City, but Sheffield colleagues surpassed all our…
On AI Labs, mobiles for barristers, and co-created infographics
The post below is a transcript of a closing keynote I gave at a UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) workshop in November 2019. It contains three case studies of how LEaD have worked with…
Finding and using re-usable teaching materials
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…
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,…
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