When creating teaching materials there are a wealth of re-usable educational resources that lecturers and teachers around the world share for others to use and adapt in their teaching. Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) are…
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Planning your first online teaching session?
With the start of term fast approaching many of you may be planning to teach online for the first time. Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) are running online workshops to help you prepare for teaching…
Reviewing Programme Design – understanding the students’ perspective
The Challenge The last few months have been hugely chaotic for me. Working remotely wasn’t a surprise, but I hadn’t considered that this space would need to be shared between me and my hubby….
Webinars – Why Do We Bother?
You may have heard the phrase, let’s not waste a crisis? So why not sign up to lots of webinars to keep ourselves informed and occupied whilst trying to work from home. I’m sure that…
Campus of the Future
I joined a webinar last month from Germany which was thought provoking and slightly comforting in that it confirmed we are all in the same perplexing situation about what our university will look like in…
Moving face-to-face teaching online, with Professor Barney Jones, Laura Kuenssberg and Angela Rayner
In March 2020 the Educational Technology Team (ETT), which is part of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) at City, University of London (City) was asked a simple question: The request Can you create an online…
Expert tips for getting and keeping a good connection to the internet
You may need tinfoil, an ethernet cable and curtains plus a DVD player. While we are all studying or working online from home, it pays to spend some time finding out how to get and…
Competencies and uncertainty
In one of my last pub outings in late February, I met up with a friend, a retired NHS consultant, now a life coach to practicing doctors. She had just been to a presentation by…
What Type of Learning Spaces Should We Design for our Students? Update
With reference to this blog from earlier in the year – https://blogs.city.ac.uk/learningatcity/2020/01/13/what-type-of-learning-spaces-should-we-design-for-our-students/#.XqqzXy-ZPOQ It seems appropriate to add that with the current Covid-19 crisis, higher education is facing an enormous challenge in how to respond to…
Revisiting Flipped learning for online engagement
This is part three of my write up about the ELSE project event that I attended in Milan at the beginning of February just a couple of weeks before the current outbreak of COVID 19…
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