This summer, the Peer Assessment Tool, created by colleagues at Cass Business School and available for all City’s academic staff to use on Moodle, was further developed to include some great new features. The Peer Assessment activity: Allows students to participate in the assessment process and encourages engagement with their own learning. Promotes fairness in…Continue Reading Peer Assessment Tool on Moodle
The Educational Technology Team recently helped the BA Journalism Programme team to redesign a student induction session – The Round University Challenge – for their Year 1 students. The Aim of the Session For students to become familiar with the Campus, and particular locations that will become important to them To help students to get…Continue Reading Actively Inducting BA Journalism Students – The Round University Challenge
Learning Analytics is a hot topic across the higher education sector. If you are a regular Learning at City blog reader you may have spotted Natalia Czuba’s recent report sharing research findings presented during October’s Critical Learning Analytics Seminar, organised by the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE). Last week, the Learning Analytic Project…Continue Reading Using Learning Analytics to benefit City’s students
Do your students find it difficult to develop their essays? If so, Alke Groppel-Wegener’s ‘Writing Essays by Pictures’ may provide a helpful guide. She approaches what can appear to be a dry process in a creative and imaginative way. The book uses engaging visual metaphors and analogies to highlight the important aspects of academia. The writing process…Continue Reading Picturing how to write essays
The growing field of learning analytics (LA) is gaining significant attention in Higher Education, reinforced by the increasing amounts of student data generated through various software. It has become a hot topic not only for practitioners but also researchers. City’s own Learning Analytics Project (LeAP) aims to maximise the potential of all our students, improving…Continue Reading Into the world of research on Learning Analytics
October’s Writing Group was our busiest yet, with participants from different City departments and also representatives from the Students’ Union. We continued our focus on editing. This time, using advice from Stephen King, we waged war on the “Atrocity of Adverbs” (Popova, 2013). We read his advice on tightening your writing by avoiding adverbs. In…Continue Reading “Fear is at the root of most bad writing.” Stephen King
There has been great interest in Big Data for learning analytics, to the point where Dr. Martin Rich (@MartinRich106) and I (@bunhill) have argued for Small Data, for example at the Learning at City Conference back in June 2017. We define this as: “The smallest amount of data that can provide actionable information, eg on…Continue Reading Small Data comes into its own at the start of term
This blog post is personal short reflection of the work in the Learning Spaces theme at City, University of London over the past three years, where I have been an Educational Technologist. I entered the department which was bigger on the inside than the outside. Many adventures were had. The Collaborative Working Dimension: Workshops, a…Continue Reading Reflections of Time And Relative Dimensions in Learning Space
Dom Pates, an Educational Technologist at Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD), discusses Learning Spaces and Twitter Walks at City, University of London….Continue Reading Leading by Example – Dom Pates
Looking forward Like most sectors, higher education looks at trends the affect it and tries to imagine potential futures from them. The University of Greenwich’s 2017 Academic Practice and Technology conference took this theme up this year with relish. Focusing on ‘reimagining higher education in the face of a rapidly changing and sometimes chaotic environment’,…Continue Reading Is the future what it used to be?