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Learning & Teaching
Guidelines for students on the use of a commercial proofreader
In the Academic Learning Support (ALS) team, we help students to develop their study skills and become effective independent learners. We don’t offer a proofreading service, but students quite often ask us for advice on the use of a commercial proofreader. We…
Getting Better: Interrogating the Smart Campus (2/2)
(watch the full session above) Over the past couple of years, I’ve been following developments in the area increasingly being defined as the ‘smart campus’ with great interest. It’s a concept that means different things…
Use images to attract readers like bees
I like to think of images in blog posts like flowers. They can attract your reader like bees. Once enticed the images can be used by readers to ‘dance’ about your wise words on visually oriented…
What do we really mean by “partnership work”?
(Illustration: Ada Jusic) At the Change Agents Network (CAN) Conference, “change agents” are any students and staff working in genuine partnerships with the aim of transforming the educational experience. While the 2018 conference encompassed presentations…
Getting Better: On Tech Bazaars in Aircraft Hangars (1/2)
2018 was my fourth year to attend Bett, one of the world’s largest educational technology trade events, and my third time as a speaker. This is the first of two posts, reflecting on the actual…
Copyright, technology and teaching
A few months ago I was honoured to find out I had been appointed to the Intellectual Property Office’s governance group, the Copyright Advisory Panel. This group is largely made up of senior representatives from…
Understanding Critical Digital Pedagogy
This is a guest post, from Prof Leigh A Hall of the University of Wyoming, on Critical Digital Pedagogy. Critical Digital Pedagogy (CDP) is a philosophical approach to teaching that applies concepts of critical pedagogy within a digital context….
Team-based Quizzing with Poll Everywhere
INTRODUCING SEGMENTED QUIZZING Keen to try and add some team-based gaming elements to your teaching, but not sure where to start? Feel like you’ve taken Poll Everywhere about as far as you can in your…
New Flexible Learning and Open Access PC Spaces at City, University of London
The Drysdale Ground floor is one of the most heavily utlised spaces on the City, University of London campus. With over 200 open access student PC spaces and five PC teaching labs the floor has…
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