City staff, we’ve been busy…. Since the downtime window started on 31st July. we have been upgrading Echo boxes in Learning Spaces, continuing to migrate content from the old Echo System Server to the new…
Students & Learning
The Psychology of Collaboration – Herman Miller Seminar
The Psychology of Collaboration, presented by Bertie van Wyk, based on a paper by Dr. Nigel Oseland. http://bit.ly/2uOrLj8 Bertie van Wyk [BVW] is a workplace specialist, a communicator on human work insights, across Europe and USA….
High Impact Webinars using Adobe Connect – Bring Your Own Lunch July 2017
The second Bring your Own Lunch Webinar took place on 19th July, with Professor Clive Holtham and Dr Martin Rich, discussing how to run high impact webinars using Adobe Connect, which you could say, is…
Still don’t know what I was waiting for and my time was running wild… (Bowie, 1971)
How many students do you know who say something like this after submitting an assignment? How many say the same- but present tense, before submitting? The work we do in Student Counselling and Mental Health…
HEA Conference – Generation TEF, 5th July – Institutional Strategies and Priorities Day
The HEA conference, entitled ‘generation TEF’ was held from 4th – 6th July at the University of Manchester. See the full programme [PDF] of the variety of speakers, workshops, talks etc that were covered during the three…
Future-proofing Higher Education, 22 Cups of Coffee and Harry Potter in Nottingham
Three days, two conferences, one prediction: digital transformation for student success is the key to future-proof UK Higher Education institutions. Held on 13 and 14 June 2017 in the heart of London’s Silicon Roundabout, Future Ed Tech…
School of Health Sciences – Teaching and Learning Innovators Event – June 2017
The School of Health Sciences Teaching and Learning Innovators Event this term returned to the three presentation format on the 14th June, following a single workshop format for the past few innovators events, with Alison…
Report from Learning at City 2017 – Developing Theory into Practice
The 9th Annual Learning at City Conference took place on 21st June. We returned to the Northampton Square campus of the University, to our new learning spaces in the Drysdale Lower Ground on a very…
EDEN Conference – June 2017
I recently attended the EDEN (European Distance learning and E-Learning Network) Conference at Jönköping University in Sweden to present on a collaborative project between the City Law School and the Educational Technology Team in LEaD….
Echo Active Learning Conference 2017
On the 6th June, Echo hosted an Active Learning Conference at Kings College London which members of LEaD and Educational Research and Enterprise Systems (ERES, part of IT) attended. The aim of the event was…