Category: Students & Learning

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Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Paul Dunn, School of Arts and Social Sciences

In the latest Research and Practice Informed Teaching case study we hear from Paul Dunn, a Visiting Lecturer on the MA Journalism programme in the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Paul has over forty years of experience as a journalist and has worked on a number of newspapers including The Guardian, The Independent, and The Times. Paul’s…Continue Reading Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Paul Dunn, School of Arts and Social Sciences

Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Professor Scott Moeller

In the second of our Research and Practice Informed Teaching case studies we hear from Professor Scott Moeller, who has been teaching at Cass Business School since 2003. Scott is director of the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre at Cass and the former CEO and Director of Executive Education. He has twenty-four years of industry…Continue Reading Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Professor Scott Moeller

Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Dr Luke McDonagh, The City Law School

To mark the launch of the new Learning Enhancement and Development Educational Research (LEaDER) Centre, LEaD wanted to celebrate examples of best practice in relation to teaching and learning at City, University of London. As part of this, we have conducted a series of interviews with staff whose teaching is informed by their research and/or…Continue Reading Research and Practice Informed Teaching Case Studies: Dr Luke McDonagh, The City Law School

Paper on the Effective Use of Video, a Literature Review

It is fair to say that the utilisation of video can provide significant and important differences to learning and teaching, especially when today’s students have a wide diversity of educational experiences and expectations. For example, the challenge of re-imagining a traditional one-hour lecture can be viewed as ‘disruptive pedagogy’, (Kinash, Knight, and McLean 2015) with exciting opportunities…Continue Reading Paper on the Effective Use of Video, a Literature Review

New Active Learning Space for Journalism

Background The academic vision was for a contemporary learning environment that should be modelled on a broadcast newsroom designed for multiple channels, by integrating the work flow across TV, radio, online and print. The approach was to design a collaborative space, where students are led through the curriculum and practical sessions, that mirrors a typical…Continue Reading New Active Learning Space for Journalism

Teaching and Learning, Wirelessly

Crowd displayed on an iPhone 7

Bringing it all together and moving forward This is the final in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers lessons learned so far from investigating this new technology, thoughts on what mobile learning can bring to HE, and what the next steps are…Continue Reading Teaching and Learning, Wirelessly

‘We Are Our Choices’ – Learning To Make Good Decisions

Scenario Based Learning Conference, hosted by St. George’s, University of London in October 2018 If you would like to see some of the key presentations, they have been published here, opens in You Tube. I attended this conference with my ETT colleague Thomas Hanley, as well as a number of academic staff from City’s School of…Continue Reading ‘We Are Our Choices’ – Learning To Make Good Decisions

Tackling the Mobile Learning Paradox

Students at University Missouri School of Journalism, with laptops open in a lecture hall.

On mobile learning and higher education This is the third in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers a paradox identified in trying to facilitate greater use of mobile devices in learning spaces, the emergence of an overarching research question, and some wider…Continue Reading Tackling the Mobile Learning Paradox

The untapped potential of pedagogic research

LEaD are thrilled to announce that Tansy Jessop, Professor of Research Informed Teaching at Solent University will be joining us to celebrate the launch of the LEaDER Centre at City, University of London. Tansy will give the keynote at the launch event next Tuesday (8th January) on the untapped potential of pedagogic research.   This talk explores the…Continue Reading The untapped potential of pedagogic research

Jisc’s ‘Intelligent Campus’ comes to City

Jisc Intelligent Campus

  Building on their work in learning analytics, Jisc are working on a research and development project in the area of the intelligent campus. One aspect of the intelligent campus is to look at ways to use data to be able to make smarter use of a university or college estate, for considerations like improving…Continue Reading Jisc’s ‘Intelligent Campus’ comes to City