The tenth annual Learning at City Conference will take place on Wednesday 20th June 2018 at City, University of London. The call for abstracts is now open and closes at midnight on March 7th 2018. Find out more and submit your abstract The overall theme for the conference focuses on Assessment and Feedback for Learning….Continue Reading Call for Abstracts – Learning at City Conference 2018
The Educational Technology Team recently helped the BA Journalism Programme team to redesign a student induction session – The Round University Challenge – for their Year 1 students. The Aim of the Session For students to become familiar with the Campus, and particular locations that will become important to them To help students to get…Continue Reading Actively Inducting BA Journalism Students – The Round University Challenge
Do your students find it difficult to develop their essays? If so, Alke Groppel-Wegener’s ‘Writing Essays by Pictures’ may provide a helpful guide. She approaches what can appear to be a dry process in a creative and imaginative way. The book uses engaging visual metaphors and analogies to highlight the important aspects of academia. The writing process…Continue Reading Picturing how to write essays
September saw the successful pilot of Student Minds ‘Look After Your Mate’ here at City. Lead by the Student Counselling & Mental Health Service in collaboration with Learning Success (LEaD), Student Experience and Engagement (S&AS) and the Students’ Union, the initiative encourages peer support and a more supportive, inclusive community. It achieves this by enhancing…Continue Reading Look After Your Mate: promoting student mental health and peer support at City
October’s Writing Group was our busiest yet, with participants from different City departments and also representatives from the Students’ Union. We continued our focus on editing. This time, using advice from Stephen King, we waged war on the “Atrocity of Adverbs” (Popova, 2013). We read his advice on tightening your writing by avoiding adverbs. In…Continue Reading “Fear is at the root of most bad writing.” Stephen King
This blog post is personal short reflection of the work in the Learning Spaces theme at City, University of London over the past three years, where I have been an Educational Technologist. I entered the department which was bigger on the inside than the outside. Many adventures were had. The Collaborative Working Dimension: Workshops, a…Continue Reading Reflections of Time And Relative Dimensions in Learning Space
As part of the revamp of the Academic Learning Support webpages we have added a new Study Guides section.These are short introductory guides on the most frequently accessed topics on the Learning Success Moodle page. Please have a look, share with your students and if you have any comments or suggestions, email – daniel.sansome@city.ac.uk….Continue Reading Easy to access Study Guides for students
Welcome to a new Academic Year! Starting university it’s always an exciting experience, but can be overwhelming for some. As a student you get introduced to so many new people, places, ideas and systems. Apart from attending lectures, browsing in the library, stopping off at the student canteen and trying to find your way around Northampton Square you are also introduced to our Online Learning Environment- Moodle. This year to help our…Continue Reading “Learning with Moodle”- A new student induction module
This autumn, City’s Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) team is offering a wide-ranging series of lunchtime study skills workshops. Most sessions are open to all City students but some are school-specific, as shown in the schedule below. Prebooking is not necessary; just come along to the sessions that best address your needs. All sessions take…Continue Reading Lunchtime workshops to develop your study skills
A guest post by Snigdha Nag, Senior Lecturer at the City Law School based on the Bring Your Own Lunch (#BYOL) Webinar in September 2017, organised by LEaD. If like to present the next one in November or write a blog post for us, then contact us. The Slides are below, for more detail, please…Continue Reading How to get more out of Moodle – Bring Your Own Lunch Webinar September 2017