Do you use lecture capture in your teaching? Margaret Carran, Senior Lecturer at City Law School and Deputy Associate Dean (Education) does, and she’s been sharing her experiences with LEaD, in the latest of our Educational Technology video case studies. This short film takes a different approach from the ‘talking heads’ style and uses animation…Continue Reading Leading by example, with lecture capture
This stimulating and unusual exhibition is designed and curated by first year BSc. Management and Business Undergraduates at Cass Business School. 38 students will present their work developed over 11 weeks of a module concentrating on persuasive communication, visual literacy, critical thinking, self-awareness and personal branding. Everyday spaces are transformed to publicly express their…Continue Reading Reflective Practitioner Student Exhibition April 5th. 2017
Potential tech futures for education and research (long read alert) How might digital technologies transform education and research by 2020-2030? As City is looking towards the coming decade in our newly-launched Vision and Strategy, Jisc are currently engaged in a consultation process to determine how best to advise and support institutions in preparing to answer this question….Continue Reading Co-designing with Jisc
Keep it snappy! It’s an obvious piece of advice, but one we often ignore. In this month’s LEaD Writing Group we spent most of the time writing. However, we did take a quick break to look at some tips about effective blogging. You can read the advice here: 18 Must-use writing strategies + examples My favourite tip…Continue Reading Keep it snappy! Top blog writing tips
I’m lucky… that my role in LEaD’s Educational Technology Team (ETT) involves working with the School of Health Sciences (SHS) and being invited to its many fascinating talks. I don’t often have time to attend these (and – our secret – I don’t always understand all of the words in the titles). But last week…Continue Reading The roads between research, blogs and Twitter
At the beginning of October 2016, LEaD loaned a touchscreen tablet and stylus to Professor Keith Pullen to enable him to provide hand-written notations and feedback on online assignment submissions. Keith is a Professor of Energy Systems, who teaches Part 4 Design for Mechanical Engineering students. The students on the course are required to produce…Continue Reading Marking electronic submissions with a touchscreen
Recently, I was lucky enough to attend the annual BETT exhibition . This was my third visit to BETT since 2010 and my first with an HE hat on. It continues to grow in size and frankly the quantity of stuff on display boggles the mind. Here are a few of my key impressions of the…Continue Reading BETT 2017 -The potential and challenges of technology enhanced learning
As the new year and the new academic term get under way, I find myself thinking again of the implications of the ‘Virtual Learning Environment’ (Moodle in our case). As an exercise in reflective practice, I share the following notes….Continue Reading On the ‘L’ in VLEs’: Flipping Attention Back to the Classroom
This short blog post highlights 10 predictions made by various educational technology companies about what the main trends in 2017 are, that as always may or may not come true. These trends are often the ‘concept cars of education’ only a few features will come true in the near future but it’s still exciting to…Continue Reading 10 Trends in Educational Technology in 2017
This blog post looks back on the top 10 blog posts on our Learning at City blog that have been viewed the most (many are from previous years as you will see), with a brief summary of what they covered and a link to the blog post in case you want to read them An…Continue Reading Learning at City – Top 10 blog posts of the year by number of views…