Teach to Inspire: Showcasing good practice in higher education

The Covid pandemic led to a swift move from face to face and blended learning to many providing all learning fully online. Whilst for some, both students and academics, this has not always been positive there have been many exciting and inspiring teaching practices as a result of this.Even when things did not go as planned there has been good practice learnt from this and others would benefit from the sharing of these experiences.

#LearningatCity21

Thanks to all who participated in and attended the conference.

Recordings and slides from some sessions will be available via this page in due course.

Programme day one: Wednesday 30th June 2021

09:45 | Welcome and Introduction – Professor David Bolton, Professor Susannah Quinsee and Professor Pam Parker

Recording of Welcome:

10:00 | Key Note – Dr Gustav Kuhn -Enhancing student engagement through magic

[Session chair – Professor Pam Parker]

11:00 | Break & networking

11:25 | Session 1

1A [Workshop] The playful pivot: how a compassionate approach to teaching was moved online | Dr Jessica Hancock

[Session chair – Martin Rich]

1B [Workshop] The path and the map: Using Moodle tools to create a structured route for students through a module | Kathryn Drumm, Olivia Fox and James Brailey

[Session chair – Miranda Melcher]

1C [Papers x2]

31 Days of December – supporting students to practise their phonetics skills over the winter break using h5p | Professor Rachael-Anne Knight, Steve McCombe and Thomas Hanley

Helping nursing student’s provide empathetic care to vulnerable older people through e-simulation | Janet Hunter and Dr Kerry Reid-Searle

[Session chair – Richard Evans]

12:30 | Lunch break & Networking

13:00 | Poster presentations

[Session chair – Professor Pam Parker]

13:35 | Session 2

2A [Workshop] EVOLI- a video tagging tool for an enhanced flipping learning approach | Elisabetta Lando

[Session chair – Lisa Baker]

2B [Workshop] Teaching development during the “digital pivot”: experiences from City staff | Dr Jane Secker, Dr Jessica Hancock, Dr Julie Voce with Jim Grice, Jennifer Gerson, Jonatan Echebarria Fernandez and Qianhui Li from the Academic Practice module EDM116 -Technology Enabled Academic Practice

[Session chair – Dr Julie Voce]

2C [Papers x 2]

News on Stage: Using ‘live journalism’ to enhance storytelling techniques and raise ethical questions with journalism students | Dr Glenda Cooper

How to square a circle – redesigning an individual project module reducing academic staff load and improving the students’ experience | Dr Cristina Gacek

[Session chair – Rae Bowdler]

14:40 | Session 3

3A [Workshop] Curriculum design SOS: Supporting learning and teaching approaches in a time of COVID | Sarah Ney, Professor Rachael-Anne Knight, Geraldine Foley and Peter Kogan

[Session chair – Olivia Fox]

3B [Papers x 2]

Improving Retention in Therapeutic Radiography: Delivering an intervention to enable clinical supervisors to support and nurture students to achieve their full potential | Richard Thorne and Dr Ricardo Khine

Using service user facilitated knowledge sharing days to develop empathy in radiography students | Dr Edwin Abdurakman, Sophie Willis, Dr Irene Ctori, Susanna Glover (Patient Experience Lead, Breast Cancer Now) and Amanda Hobson Jones, (Volunteer Breast Cancer Now)

[Session chair – Professor Pam Parker]