Category: Learning & Teaching

Sharing innovations, research findings and good practice for learning and teaching.

Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces: using mobile learning and flexible spaces to promote reflection and discussion

Why? Think-Group-Share creates an engaging moment in lesson that capitalises on discussion and reflection and has a positive impact on student understanding and performance (Habel and Stubbs, 2014). Technique   This activity is a modified version of Think-Pair-Share and explores the use of technology enriched learning. It goes beyond getting an answer “right” and focuses…Continue Reading Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces: using mobile learning and flexible spaces to promote reflection and discussion

Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Icebreaker Activities

Looking for creative teaching activities? Encourage students to work collaboratively and motivate each others learning, to clarify their understanding of course content and reflect on different peer perspectives. Take a look at the group work suggestions in our series of blog posts. We recommend booking City’s new Learning Spaces to run these activities. 1)      Rounds…Continue Reading Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Icebreaker Activities

Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Buzz Groups and Snowballs

Looking for creative teaching activities? Encourage students to work collaboratively and motivate each others learning, to clarify their understanding of course content and reflect on different peer perspectives. Take a look at the group work suggestions in our series of blog posts. We recommend booking City’s new Learning Spaces to run these activities. 1)      Buzz…Continue Reading Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Buzz Groups and Snowballs

To what extent can students be partners in their study skills learning? An evaluative study of a series of academic learning support workshops

We very much enjoyed presenting our paper on students as partners in study skills teaching & learning at the Learning at City Conference 2014. In case you missed the presentation, here’s a link to the paper.  We would welcome your comments, of course. http://moodle.city.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=212316 Best wishes Richard, Sally, Emma & David Academic Learning Support, Learning…Continue Reading To what extent can students be partners in their study skills learning? An evaluative study of a series of academic learning support workshops

Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Debating and Presentations

Looking for creative teaching activities? Encourage students to work collaboratively and motivate each others learning, to clarify their understanding of course content and reflect on different peer perspectives. Take a look at the group work suggestions in our series of blog posts. We recommend booking City’s new Learning Spaces to run these activities. 1)      Debating…Continue Reading Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Debating and Presentations

ALDinHE Annual Conference 2014: Learning Development Spaces and Places

In April, I had the lucky opportunity to attend the Association of Learning Development in Higher Education’s (ALDinHE) annual conference, where themes such as ownership and identity of learning development departments were discussed and explored through a series of lectures and workshops. The keynote speaker was Etienne Wenger-Treyner (EWT), a social learning theorist whose work…Continue Reading ALDinHE Annual Conference 2014: Learning Development Spaces and Places

Walking Reading Group

As part of further exploring walking and learning as an educational tool, I joined an East London Walking Reading Group on Participation.  Across four free events, groups of interested people, often participants have arts or education backgrounds, come together to walk for around two hours and discuss issues surrounding participation, engagement, collaboration and social practice.  The…Continue Reading Walking Reading Group

Changing the Learning Landscape

Changing the Learning Landscape is tasked with enabling higher education institutions in England to bring about change in their strategic approaches to technology in learning and teaching.  It is a partnership between the Association for Learning Technology, the Higher Education Academy, JISC, the National Union of Students and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. The partnership is funded by Hefce. Susannah Quinsee, Annemarie Cancienne,…Continue Reading Changing the Learning Landscape

MELSIG on 14 April 14: Smart Devices for Learning #3 by Martin Agombar & Fariha Afgan

MELSIG are a popular and active group who meet to discuss the latest developments in media-enhanced learning. They have their own blog and organise a wide variety of events and activities. We went to their Smart Devices for Learning #3 event at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). The preceding two events in this series were at…Continue Reading MELSIG on 14 April 14: Smart Devices for Learning #3 by Martin Agombar & Fariha Afgan

Graham Gibbs – ’53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About’

Graham Gibbs has started to publish a weekly Blog on the SEDA website focused on his 53 powerful ideas all teachers should know about. Graham is hoping to engage the community in discussions around his ideas and share further good practice. So far the blog contains a prologue to the weekly posts and posts focused…Continue Reading Graham Gibbs – ’53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About’