Category: Students & Learning

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Learning analytics, personal tutoring and belonging: highlights from the 2017 UKAT conference

Model showing the characteristics of effective interventions and approaches to foster belonging: mainstream, proactive, relevant, collaborative, monitored and well-timed using appropriate media.

In April I attended the annual United Kingdom Advising and Tutoring (UKAT) conference at Leeds Trinity University. UKAT is a body of professional practitioners and researchers interested in all aspects of student advising and personal tutoring in Further and Higher Education. What follows are my reflections on the workshops and presentations I attended at the…Continue Reading Learning analytics, personal tutoring and belonging: highlights from the 2017 UKAT conference

Disabled Students’ Allowance Quality Assurance Training: more than compliance

Image of series of post-it notes capturing different barriers to learning for disabled student

For most of us, preparation for a quality audit is not the most exciting way to spend an afternoon, so last week my colleagues from Learning Success  and Student Counselling and Mental Health Services decided to use compulsory pre-audit training required by the newly established Disabled Students Allowances Quality Assurance Group (DSA-QAG) as a space…Continue Reading Disabled Students’ Allowance Quality Assurance Training: more than compliance

The reflective practitioner exhibition for Cass students – 5th April

‘Creative’ and ‘vocational’ are two adjectives that often come to mind when discussing what a contemporary business and management degree should look like. Both of these were in evidence at the exhibition, which tool place last week, set up by the students taking the reflective practitioner elective as part of their first year as undergraduates, and…Continue Reading The reflective practitioner exhibition for Cass students – 5th April

School of Health Sciences – Teaching and Learning Innovators Event – March 2017

For the School of Health Sciences  Teaching and Learning Innovators Event this term we had Amanda Hutcherson present about Learning Gain. This is a topic that has had funding from HEFCE for research. What is Learning Gain? Amanda asked us this question at the start of the session and asked us to write this on…Continue Reading School of Health Sciences – Teaching and Learning Innovators Event – March 2017

LEaD Writing Group – Developing your creativity

This month’s theme for the LEaD Writing Group was creativity. We started by using an activity suggested by Heather Leach in The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion. Stretch the imaginative muscle (Leach, 2014). Choose any object that you have around you. In our case, I gave the participants a book. Make a list…Continue Reading LEaD Writing Group – Developing your creativity

Creating multimedia resources with Powtoon

The Academic Learning Support team has collaborated with the Multimedia team to produce a series of short animations in which City students provide study skills tips to their fellows. This post outlines the process for those who might be interested in doing similar projects. The aim was to produce an engaging way of communicating study…Continue Reading Creating multimedia resources with Powtoon

Sketches for a Smart Campus

Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan (from Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

1/ Been collecting some thoughts on the #intelligentcampus (or #smartcampus, for character brevity) for @JISC’s #codesign16. #learningspaces — Dom Pates (@dompates) November 23, 2016 A few weeks ago, I noticed on Twitter that JISC was asking for contributions on the subject of ‘the intelligent campus’ (or, ‘the smart campus’, as it’s also known). I’ve been…Continue Reading Sketches for a Smart Campus

Introducing City’s new flagship lecture theatre

Overview Last month saw the opening of B200, a new lecture theatre in University Building that is set to become one of City’s flagship learning spaces. The theatre is now live, with the first timetabled lectures having already taken place. Explore B200 from a presenter point of view in the 360° photo above. Positioned above…Continue Reading Introducing City’s new flagship lecture theatre

Learning with blogs

The theme for this month’s LEaD Writing Group was – Learning with blogs. We explored our own experiences together with observations of how our students have learnt with blogs. A number of themes emerged: Learning through reading Blogs can provide a good source of information and a way to get different views on the world….Continue Reading Learning with blogs

Leading Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education: Report and Interactive Toolkit

Leading Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education, a summary report and interactive toolkit written by Professors Linda Evans and Neil Morris from the University of Leeds. It is a research-informed checklist for stakeholders including institutional leaders and managers, learning technologists, academic developers and e-learning champions, as they prepare for, develop, deliver and evaluate change in…Continue Reading Leading Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education: Report and Interactive Toolkit