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 the existential psychotherapist Ernesto Spinelli and was inspired by his talk on ‘uncertainty’. Over my large G&T, I asked her…Continue Reading Competencies and uncertainty
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 the situation and how to adapt to an uncertain future. One strategic approach is to think about what is important…Continue Reading What Type of Learning Spaces Should We Design for our Students? Update
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 Teams, Skype, Zoom and whichever platform is needed. However as two people working in educational technology we are finding it…Continue Reading Teaching Online Learning in a Time of Crisis
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, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy,…Continue Reading In at the deep end: teaching online at short notice
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 and I don’t think it is an understatement to feel totally floored about what the past few weeks have done…Continue Reading Revisiting Flipped learning for online engagement
There is some very useful advice here about developing on-line material for your students, but don’t forget to look after yourself and your team as well. This is a small selection of related external links that we feel will provide helpful ideas and guidance during this very difficult and stressful time as we deal with…Continue Reading Well-being and remote working for City, University of London
Planning a fully online course takes significant time and resources Unfortunately, coronavirus means that everyone is being asked to develop online solutions to ensure continuity of teaching. The Educational Technology Team in LEaD have put together some brief guidance which we hope will help you to transition your face-to-face teaching online. Don’t try to replicate…Continue Reading Developing online teaching and learning
In my previous blog about the ELSE European project I gave an introduction to some of the ideas that struck me as being key. Here I will look at one of its outputs. The E-core simulation software is introduced as an easy authoring tool for the creation of open and reusable resources. The development team…Continue Reading Teaching 21st century competencies through simulation. ELSE Part 2
I’m always surprised that despite how much interest there is in using audiovisual material in teaching, staff often seem to be unaware that we have a subscription to Box Of Broadcasts (BoB) at City. BoB is a huge database of broadcast content from TV and radio, dating back to the 1990s and licensed for use…Continue Reading Using audiovisual materials in teaching: don’t forget BoB!
Reposted from the City Library blog This month we’re excited to launch our new initiative ‘Liberating CityLibrary’ where we’re asking students and staff to recommend books to help us improve the diversity of our collections. We want to increase the range of books in the library written by people from a BAME (Black, Asian and…Continue Reading Liberating CityLibrary