In April 2015 I met with Ursula Smith, Programme Manager for undergraduate Child Health programmes and now Associate Dean for Postgraduate Taught, CPPD and Workforce Development in SHS. She told me about a project she had wanted to start which would take students out of the lecture room and clinical skills lab, and give them…Continue Reading Health’s Got Talent: Student, Academic and Ed Tech collaboration
On behalf of The City Law School, we are proud to have launched the University’s first distance learning degree programme, the Master of Laws (LLM) in International Business Law (IBL), in May 2014. In consideration of the school’s strategy to internationalise our postgraduate curriculum and course offerings, Professor Jason Chuah, the Head of Academic Law,…Continue Reading Distance Learning: LLM International Business Law
Professor Chris Hull, School of Health Sciences, discusses his use of Adobe Presenter in his teaching of Optometry….Continue Reading Leading by Example – Professor Chris Hull
Dr Sionade Robinson at Cass Business School talks about using Adobe Presenter for a flipped learning approach in her teaching….Continue Reading Leading by Example – Dr Sionade Robinson
Whether you are a Lecture Capture veteran or a newbie, this short post will give you some ideas of what you can do with the Lecture Capture after you have the recording that will help your students and also help you. Remember, it’s what you ask your students to do with the recordings and helping…Continue Reading 5 Things to Do with Lecture Capture
The multimedia team recently completed a project with Robin Sellers at The City Law School to create advocacy videos for students undertaking the BPTC (Bar Professional Training Course) programme. These involved three scenarios: Dealing with a bad character application Refreshing the memory of a witness. Handling a previous inconsistent statement by a witness. The videos…Continue Reading The City Law School – Advocacy Videos Project for BPTC Evidence Module
Audience: City University Staff The new City Course Format was designed to provide students with an overview of module content, easy access to key contacts and quicklinks to important links and activities. This blog post outlines how to maxmimise your Moodle modules by using the City Course Format features. Overview of module content The City…Continue Reading Maximising your Moodle Modules with City Course Format
In LEaD we have a strong track record of using walking as an educational development tool. This accessible and enlightening Farscape webinar explores the science behind learning in the outdoors. It draws on a variety of academic sources including neuroscience, leadership theory and attention restoration theory. Farscape offer leadership development through experiential learning. They engage in…Continue Reading The Science Behind Learning in the Outdoors
This blog is a review of the work we presented at the Health’s Got Talent event in May 2015. This year we gave an overview of the way games and simulation were used within the ultrasound programme and were fortunate to be awarded the “gold award” for teaching innovation. This blog gives an insight into…Continue Reading Health’s got talent: Games with aims
The Annual Association for Learning Technology conference (ALTC) took place from the 8th – 10th September, with the theme of ‘Shaping the Future Together’. I attended the second day of the conference as it had elements of Learning Spaces that I was interested in. This post are my highlights, along with a recording on the…Continue Reading Shaping the Future of Learning Together – Day 2 at ALT-C 2015