Category: Learning & Teaching

A free new book on teaching and learning with smartphones and tablets out now!

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Are you looking for innovative ideas to make better use of the devices your students bring to class? If you are thinking about how to teach and learn with smart devices, then this new book is full of practical ideas! Smart Learning published by the Media Enhanced Learning Group, is about teaching and learning with…Continue Reading A free new book on teaching and learning with smartphones and tablets out now!

Lecture capture: Opting (out) to enhance student experience and other Opencast Conference Highlights

Why use lecture capture? What are the limitations? How do you do on the fly editing? This post looks at some of these issues, advice and novel solutions universities using the open source lecture capture system, Opencast shared at the annual Opencast Conference, at the University of Manchester, which I attended the first day of,…Continue Reading Lecture capture: Opting (out) to enhance student experience and other Opencast Conference Highlights

HeLF Flexible Pedagogies Workshop

Members of the Heads of E-Learning Forum (HeLF), a network of senior staff in institutions engaged in promoting, supporting and developing technology enhanced learning, met at the University of Leeds in February to explore flexible pedagogies.  The workshop addressed a number of aspects of flexible pedagogies such as new curricular being developed at different institutions,…Continue Reading HeLF Flexible Pedagogies Workshop

Silver Vaults Walking and Learning Activity

London could be viewed as a giant extended classroom freely available to use for activities, wandering and discovery.  The scene of our latest walking and learning activity was a literal treasure trove under the pavements of Chancery Lane, the London Silver Vaults.  This fascinating underground site now hosts 30 specialist silver retailers and started life as…Continue Reading Silver Vaults Walking and Learning Activity

Active Learning Workshops and New Learning Spaces

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April / May workshops please book here. Written by Dominic Pates, Jorge Freire and Santanu Vasant (Learning Spaces Theme) During February LEaD staff delivered a series of workshops aimed at introducing staff to large and small group teaching activities and showcasing the new learning spaces at City. This short article provides highlights from these workshops and…Continue Reading Active Learning Workshops and New Learning Spaces

The Walking Reading Group and Beyond

The highly successful Walking Reading Group, facilitated by Lydia Ashman, Ania Bas and Simone Mair, finished it’s current iteration of walks with a flurry of activity this month.  Events included a suite of walks in Bilbao, a ‘Walking as Resistance’ walk around parliament and the surrounding area with texts and themes arising from the Human Rights…Continue Reading The Walking Reading Group and Beyond

Media and Learning webinar: The creation of videos to support students’ learning

This Thursday at 2pm, Educational Technologists Martin Agombar and Mo Pamplin are presenting a webinar as part of a series run by the Media and Learning Association. We will be talking about our experiences of working with academic colleagues on video resource projects. If you are creating your own video-based learning resources, want to know…Continue Reading Media and Learning webinar: The creation of videos to support students’ learning

‘Is learning for all?’ – a conference on inclusive learning.

The theme for this year’s Learning at City Conference will focus on inclusive learning and the call for abstracts is now open to City University Staff. This year will mark the 7th successful year of the annual conference and will see it being held off-site and open to external presenters and delegates for the second year…Continue Reading ‘Is learning for all?’ – a conference on inclusive learning.

Teaching with Moodle Mooc

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New to Moodle and interested in exploring how to use Moodle effectively in your teaching? Then Teaching with Moodle: An introduction might be the course for you. This course is run as structured Mooc (Massive open online course) on LearnMoodle which is the official Moodle website for delivering Moocs. So even if you are a…Continue Reading Teaching with Moodle Mooc

Lecture capture: the present and the future

I’ve used both the fixed lecture capture in larger rooms, and personal capture, with some success and had extremely positive feedback on it from students.  It’s usually worth editing the recordings if only to cut out breaks in the lecture, but this is easy to do once you have learned to use the software.  Once…Continue Reading Lecture capture: the present and the future