Category: Learning & Teaching

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

Making the Extraordinary

  I took part in a recent event at Cass on April 30th. that may be of interest. Called  Making the Extraordinary, and in partnership with City University, and The Culture Capital Exchange, it brought together leading edge researchers and thinkers, artists, creatives, technology innovators and people ‘to watch’, to share their knowledge, experience and…Continue Reading Making the Extraordinary

Messy change

Bit of self promotion, so excuse me for that, but I thought people might be interested in this piece by Patsy Cullen on HEA/LFHE Changing the Learning Landscape workshop that I contributed to a few weeks ago. The workshop is looking a digital literacy and change and features a series of keynotes and interactive presentations….Continue Reading Messy change

Students’ creative ideas for displaying their work in learning spaces

Helping a cohort of 52 business students to design and curate their exhibition of the 11 week Reflective Practitioner module provided an interesting opportunity for students to come up with imaginative ways of displaying their work. Task   The exhibition design, artefacts and curation represented a piece of course work, and two streams of students were…Continue Reading Students’ creative ideas for displaying their work in learning spaces

Its a cut and paste job.

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.

Showcasing the Best of Educational Technologies

Cass Business Schooll

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

Flipped Classroom Infographic

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

Automated essay grading software

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

Contribute to the vignettes blog

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

Teaching Excellence Project

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

Traditional versus radical change in education

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