Refusal and leadership – keynotes from the Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference

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By Julie Voce and Sarah Ney “Value the people who refuse. They are the ones you should be learning from” (Lanclos, 2019) Dr Donna Lanclos opened the 17th Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference with a keynote entitled Listening to Refusal which started by critiquing the Department for Education policy paper Realising the potential of…Continue Reading Refusal and leadership – keynotes from the Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference

Interrogating the #HolographicAcademic at #ALTc

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#altc First session, a design workshop for telepresent future learning with @dompates – Holography and HE and Speculative learning design #HolographicAcademic pic.twitter.com/B4rcG6Bt3W — Dr Sarah Copeland (@XarahC) September 3, 2019 If holographic projection was introduced and adopted by universities, what impacts might there be on teaching and learning? In September 2019, I made my first…Continue Reading Interrogating the #HolographicAcademic at #ALTc

Join LEaDER on Wednesday 30th October

LEaDER lectures and seminars: To inform and inspire Open to all City, University of London staff Sign up for this event    Join us for an afternoon presented by leading experts in educational research and innovation. Programme Workshop: Writing and publishing REF papers from pedagogic research with Professor Debby Cotton – 2.15pm – 3.45pm, C307, Tait Building…Continue Reading Join LEaDER on Wednesday 30th October

Data, predictions and hidden learning environments at ALT-C

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This year’s Association for Learning Technology conference (ALT-C) was themed Data, Dialogue, Doing. As we have just finished phase one of our Learning Analytics Project (LeAP), I attended with my Learning Analytics hat on to find out more about what others in the sector are doing. Sue Beckingham’s opening keynote set the scene by talking…Continue Reading Data, predictions and hidden learning environments at ALT-C

AI in STEM Education

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AI means “any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals” (1). The discussions often centre around the mechanisms used in the perceiving, the maximising algorithms or the data sources which describe our environment. The wider discussion of what the goals of the system are is…Continue Reading AI in STEM Education

Vacancy – Assistant Educational Technologist – City, University of London

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Assistant Educational Technologist City, University of London Salary: £30,046 to £36,914 Closing date: 10th October 2019, 11:59pm. Interviews: 31st October 2019 View job description City seeks to recruit an Assistant Educational Technologist as part of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD). LEaD is a multiskilled service that supports, develops, and influences education at City, University of…Continue Reading Vacancy – Assistant Educational Technologist – City, University of London

50 % * of our teaching rooms in the University have been improved – with a new DALI teaching Pod

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  The Designing Active Learning Initiative (DALI) project, spent the Summer busily focussing on our fourth year of works, to deliver updated educational technology in 31 learning spaces, including 10 existing and 21 new spaces at Whiskin Street, in time for the start of the new academic year 2019/20. These improved spaces, now with DALI aligned teaching equipment, have been spread out…Continue Reading 50 % * of our teaching rooms in the University have been improved – with a new DALI teaching Pod

AI and intelligence based learning

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  In The Robots Are Coming Andrés Oppenheimer writes that no one is safe, including a chapter titled “They’re Coming for Lawyers!” So what are the implications of AI and the study of Law? Well AI is here; we write with Grammarly or Hemmingway; Google answers all our questions and legal firms use chatbots such…Continue Reading AI and intelligence based learning

Enhacing the student experience with audio feedback

At our Moodle Refreshers, we’ve been telling staff about the new audio and video feedback feature for grading assignments. One of the lecturers pointed out that there is a body of evidence to show the effectiveness of audio feedback. And so there is… One study sums up the potential benefits quite nicely and revealed “extremely…Continue Reading Enhacing the student experience with audio feedback

Learning Design Bootcamp

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Last month saw the culmination of the Learning Design Bootcamp I have been involved with and it has been an interesting experience to see how the teams have progressed through the bootcamp. The bootcamp was the idea of Dr Maria Toro-Troconis from CEG Digital and co-ordinated by a committee involving representatives from a number of…Continue Reading Learning Design Bootcamp