We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our second post and will cover managing content and ensuring consistency on modules across a programme. Course format Course formats in Moodle enable different layouts and structures for your module. At City, the City Course Format…Continue Reading Prepare for new academic year on Moodle – consistency and content
This year, there will be only a minor refresh of Moodle, and so across the summer the Digital Education Team are offering guidance and training to staff on how they can prepare for the new academic year and refresh their knowledge of Moodle. We’re putting together a series of posts to help you prepare for…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – Moodle refresh, module start dates and training
Recently I was lucky enough to undertake 4 days of work experience with the LEaD Multi-media team at City, University of London. This was organised as part of my year 12 placement and was an opportunity to experience working in a University environment and to experiment with video creation and production, stop motion animation and…Continue Reading Rabbits, post-its, green screens and stop motion animation – a week of work experience in LEaD
Yesterday marked a full decade since I started working at this university. The Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) department was officially launched on my second day in the job, at an on-campus event with LEaD cupcakes, leaderships speeches and aspirations of where things had come from and what we were to become. The annual Learning…Continue Reading Ten years, ten highlights
Are you interested in learning more about hybrid teaching and how to implement it effectively? Our Community of Practice brings together like-minded educators who are keen on exploring new ways of teaching and learning with ISLA technology. During this CoP, we will be hearing from Marc Mimler, programme director of the LLM, who recently transitioned…Continue Reading ISLA Community of Practice – June 2024
Just before Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024, I was part of a group from City who visited Google’s Accessibility Discovery Centre in the heart of London’s Kings Cross. The group was made up of colleagues from across City, all of whom have an interest in digital accessibility. There were staff from the Library, the EDI…Continue Reading A visit to Google’s Accessibility Discovery Centre
In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) held on the 16th of May this year, Sylwia Frankowska-Takhari and I were invited to participate in the second session of a series of workshops that are part of a project called ‘Accessible Digital Futures’, a joint effort between Jisc’s National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education…Continue Reading Jisc’s Accessible Digital Futures project: Growth of AI in and as assistive technology
Previously named The British Video Expo, this annual event showcases the latest innovations in video and audio production. This year’s show was hosted at the Olympia Conference Centre near Hammersmith, and I was thrilled to attend for a few hours and try out some of the exciting new tech. Despite running over 2 full-days, the…Continue Reading The Media Production & Technology Show 2024
The City learning and teaching community was set up on the Microsoft Teams platform, and was part of a broader offering aimed at providing support during the emergency online teaching in 2020. This presented a key opportunity to foster a collaborative approach and build a community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1998). Professional staff and…Continue Reading City Learning and Teaching community calling!
tldr: CogX gave me the cognitive dissonance of trying to balance retaining a critical mindset on AI and the now familiar feelings of paradigm shift fatigue with being wide-eyed with wonder about what lies ahead and intrigued about all the ways that AI seems likely to reach into most aspects of human life. Shortly before…Continue Reading Getting The Next Ten Years Right