Alison Davies,a professional story teller, ran a small story telling session this week giving a taste of the workshops she runs with academics around how to use story telling. language and creativity to improve the teaching and learning experience. We participated in exercises designed to enable us to turn events into stories and explore different…Continue Reading Story telling session
The 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology (altc2013) 10–12 September 2013, Nottingham, UK altc2013 Building new cultures of learning Everybody learns, but the ways in which we learn are changing rapidly. The 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) sets out to explore and contribute to building new cultures…Continue Reading One Hundred and One Things About Video In Education
I was recently playing host for an Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) Summer Symposium held in one of our very own flexible spaces A109. The highlight of the symposium was the keynote that looked at an example of transforming the students experiences of learning using the flipped classroom model. Who’s…Continue Reading Flipping a large cohort of engineering students case study
I attended my second ICICTE (International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education) this year. The conference aims to explore the challenges and changes arising from technological innovations. The themes of this year’s conference ranged from procedures and techniques to tools for creating 21st century learning environments. Neal Sumner and I presented the findings from…Continue Reading Review of ICICTE technology innovations conference
I was recently involved in videoing the European Global Product Realisation (EGPR) final workshop with Stef Smith. The project is an excellent example of collaboration. This year it involved five international universities who joined forces to design a fuselage for an aircraft to be flown by disabled people. From our perspective the main challenge was…Continue Reading EGPR Project: Video Promotion
I was asked to run* a session for Learning@City 2013 Conference about the project I have been doing as part of my Learning Development Associate secondment. The project’s focus is the use and impact of technology in physical learning environments at City. Fig. 1 A tree made from paper aeroplanes, particpant views and Wordle As…Continue Reading Technology in physical learning environments #ldc2013
Thank you to all those that attended and participated in our workshop session at the Learning at City Conference. In our session we introduced a number of techniques and technologies that could be used to enable creative large group teaching. We talked about how education is changing and our learning spaces need to reflect these…Continue Reading Creative Large Group Teaching – the aftermath
The LDC are hosting the third annual research symposium which sees over 20 doctoral students from a range of subjects and disciplines presenting their research to staff and students.Its an event not to be missed! To find out more about the types of disciplines that will be presenting their research, see the graph below. The…Continue Reading Look who’s talking now!
Online reviews are fundamental to how I make decisions from buying a product online to choosing a restaurant to hiring a builder. Is it something we should be using to share opinions about lecturers? This is a facility that has been available to students for some time in the US. Here is the UK version:…Continue Reading Rate Your Professor
Around a fifth of all teaching at City occurs in rooms that fit 80 or more students. Lecture theatres with more than 150 seats and more than 200 seats currently report almost back to back teaching according to timetabling. Is teaching in large groups the best way for students to learn? What are the alternatives…Continue Reading Creative large group teaching