One of the more challenging aspects of our work as educators is how we develop students understanding of plagiarism. At the beginning of the year, you may have felt that you have appropriately outlined your expectations to your students in terms of plagiarism. You may even have called in the expert librarians to help run…Continue Reading Its a cut and paste job.
To help welcome the arrival of the improved, enhanced, and new educational technologies that the Educational Technology Community has been working on as part of the University’s Strategic Plan, Cass Business School is holding a Showcase on 7 May to which all City University London staff are invited. Their Teaching and Learning Showcase is an…Continue Reading Showcasing the Best of Educational Technologies
Infographics are excellent ways to communicate information. This one explains the origins and usefulness of the flipped classroom. The concept appears to be simple and is enabled by the recent increased availability of video. Significantly the aim is to improve student learning by creating a face-to-face learning experience that is tailored to student needs, collaborative…Continue Reading Flipped Classroom Infographic
Are we trying to replace academics with robots? Is the underlying mission of e-learning to do away with expensive humans and use much cheaper electronic alternatives? This has been a fear within universities and the arrival of automated assessment technology by a US non-profit company called EdX will compound this anxiety. This software is able…Continue Reading Automated essay grading software
Are you involved in educational research at City University London? Are you involved in educational development? Have you made positive educational changes to your course? Or perhaps you’d like to share an opinion or finding around educational development? We would like to invite you to participate in the Educational Vignettes blog. Take a look at…Continue Reading Contribute to the vignettes blog
City University London is one of the institutions taking part in the a Higher Education Academy change academy programme focused on Recognising Teaching Excellence. The programme provides the opportunity for a team to examine a range of issues around this topic with other institutions and the support of critical friends and experts. The team from City…Continue Reading Teaching Excellence Project
According to two articles in Times Higher Education change is moving both too fast and too slow as these quotes demonstrate: “Many students will “defend to the death” the need for traditional campus-based lectures, and will only delve into the world of free online educational resources if instructed to by their teachers, a conference has…Continue Reading Traditional versus radical change in education
At City University, London we are developing more and more flexible learning spaces. Increasingly academics are using pedagogic models that enhance learning by utilising the learning technologies we have and focus on interactivity, collaboration and participation. We have a number of smaller flexible learning spaces, but how does this work with larger groups? The Educational…Continue Reading New Models for Teaching in HE Working Group
What is it? ‘A Massive Open Online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to virtually any person, with no limit on attendance (hence the word massive), that want to attend the course’. Educause,2011 Where has the idea of MOOCs come from? The MOOC is a response to the challenges faced by…Continue Reading Ten things you need to know about MOOCs
Increasingly we are aware that learning does not happen by passively receiving information. The traditional lecture where one lecturer talks and students sit quietly in rows listening and taking notes has limited use. At City University London we are bringing about changes in the smaller learning spaces we have to create a number of flexible…Continue Reading Creating flexible learning spaces and the flipped lecture