LDC in consultation with the Learning Spaces Group(LSG) has recently had a Business Case approved to review rooms that are under-utilised within the campus. The LDC will be leading on redesigning a number of rooms in College Building, Northampton Square Campus to create spaces for students and staff which promote active and highly interactive learning…Continue Reading Piloting Innovative and Excellent Teaching and Learning Spaces
A day in the life of a Teaching Pod
Its been an interesting journey for the Pod. It all started way back in 2006 when a Classroom Experience initiative brought in over £1.4M to purchase over 80 Pods for the Northampton Square campus! Over the years, these pods became problematic and a number of issues were being reported through the Classroom Experience Steering Group. …Continue Reading A day in the life of a Teaching Pod
Shareville: An alternative to second life?
Birmingham City University have created their own virtual enivronment called SHAREVILLE. “The acronym SHAREVILLE required almost as much thought as the concept itself – Shareable Holistic Assets and Resources Existing in a Virtual Interactive Lifelong Learning Environment! This virtual town is an online immersive environment comprising of 360 degree panoramas and 3D resources that students…Continue Reading Shareville: An alternative to second life?
Participating in the Second JISC webinar on Curriculum Development
I’m the City University Learning Development Associate with specific responsibility for curriculum development. City is actively involved in curriculum development with Predict: part of a national JISC project. Taking part in the second JISC Webinar on Curriculum Design: Nov 2nd 2011, was an opportunity to find out what 31 colleagues are concerned about nationally and…Continue Reading Participating in the Second JISC webinar on Curriculum Development
STARS conference 16th November 2011
Stars conference 16-11-11 This conference was organised to give training to the programme reps and give an opportunity for feedback. The day was introduced by Amish Patel student union vice president, which was followed by a short speech by the VC Professor Paul Curran. He emphasised the importance of the programme rep role in…Continue Reading STARS conference 16th November 2011
Using Adobe Presenter to support CPD
E-learning: An alternative delivery method for clinical risk training in addictions services. In 2010 East London NHS Foundation Trust commissionedCityUniversityto deliver a project focussing upon assessing risk assessment within Addiction services. The addictions directorate felt there was an identified need within the service to build upon the already significant training offered by the Trust…Continue Reading Using Adobe Presenter to support CPD
A fresh take on the classroom clickers (aka ‘PRS’)
Just yesterday I attended and presented at the first European Turning Technologies User Conference at the University of Surrey. Turning Technologies are the US-based manufacturers of the classroom clickers / PRS that we use here at City. The keynote for the day was none other than Harvard Professor Eric Mazur, developer of the ‘Peer Instruction’…Continue Reading A fresh take on the classroom clickers (aka ‘PRS’)
Get Ready to SCOF!
The SCOFS (Standardised, Customisable Online Feedback System) project was a Learning Development Project to develop a tool that would address the needs to give increasing amounts of feedback to students in shorter and shorter timescales. The SCOF tool is based around the creation of feedback schemes (the ‘Standardised’ part of the name) which can later…Continue Reading Get Ready to SCOF!
Digital Literacies JISC Workshop. Bristol 6th October 2011.
JISC Design Studio This was one of a series of JISC workshops rolled out across the UK this year ‘to support the development and implementation of institutional approaches to digital literacies across the entire workforce and including students’. It was expertly facilitated by Helen Beetham, Greg Benfield and Paul Bailey, who introduced us to a…Continue Reading Digital Literacies JISC Workshop. Bristol 6th October 2011.
Do’s and Dont’s on constructing a learning space for our students
I recently attended a SCHOMS run Spaces Design workshop held @ the University of Birmingham. The ‘Active Learning classroom pictures’ are seen below. This was run by Peter Jamieson who’s a celeb in the Spaces world! The end result was to assist in the development of a resource/work tool which will help when considering learning…Continue Reading Do’s and Dont’s on constructing a learning space for our students