On a sunny afternoon on 17th July 2019, academic and professional colleagues came together on the 6th floor at Bunhill Row for the 3rd Cass Teaching and Learning Exchange. The two-hour event was again introduced by Dr Martin Rich, Course Director, BSc Business Management, who co-hosted with Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD). Once again colleagues…
Introducing ‘active mobile learning’
A workshop on wireless collaboration What do mobile devices allow you to do in teaching and learning that you can’t do without them? How might I incorporate active mobile learning into my teaching? After noting sustained demand from staff and students, seemingly endless tinkering with a particular emerging technology, as well as sensing the way…
Learning and Teaching Awards – SASS (School of Arts and Social Sciences)
The School of Arts and Social Sciences’ (SASS) inaugural Learning and Teaching Awards took place on 13th June. School staff were encouraged to submit examples of their good practice in relation to teaching and learning, methods of assessment and feedback, employability skills development and student support. From a very strong field, finalists were selected to…
Teaching and Learning, Wirelessly
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…
Sweet Phone Chicago, Part Two
Further reflections on mLearn 2018 This is the fifth in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It provides further reporting on a visit to mLearn 2018, as well as reflections on being mobile in America, and some additional flavours of Chicago. Kicking off proceedings…
Tackling the Mobile Learning Paradox
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…
Towards Wireless Collaboration
The journey so far towards wireless collaboration at City This is the second in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers the rise of smartphones and mobile devices, increasing demand at City for integration of mobile devices within learning spaces, and how LEaD…
On Confidence Grids
LEaD have a weekly Educational Technology drop-in session for academics or course office staff to have a space and some time to get support and/or advice without needing an appointment or a Service Now ticket. For us, it’s a great way to better understand some of the difficulties, challenges or questions that staff can have…
Cutting the cables
It’s a big room. There are hundreds of faces out there, all looking at me. I don’t want to be pinned behind that thing for the whole lecture – I need to be able to move about, to pace, to engage. Ever find yourself stuck behind the lectern in somewhere like a lecture theatre, unable…
Educational Technology Workshops
Educational Technology Workshops The Educational Technology routine training programme is now available for term 1. The workshops in our offer are intended as basic introductions to key aspects of using technology to support teaching and learning. We have introductory sessions to technologies such as Moodle, Lecture Capture, and Poll Everywhere. Other sessions include DIY Video, Interpreting Turnitin…