I have been most fortunate this year to have had the privilege of attending several events at our university and I am truly grateful for that especially after returning from my second maternity leave. When you return to work after an extended period, in many ways, it does feel like you are starting again, therefore it’s…Continue Reading Post maternity leave – a refresher’s synopsis of City’s events 2019
Do you have an interest in educational video and multimedia? Come and work with the City Educational Technology Team! Educational Video and Multimedia Specialist City, University of London Salary: £38,017 to £44,045 Closing date: Monday 9 September 11:59pm Interviews – w/c 7 October View job description City, University of London seeks to recruit an Educational…Continue Reading Vacancy – Educational Video and Multimedia Specialist
According to a recent report by HEPI, 63.9% of full-time, UK domiciled, undergraduate students are living in the ‘parental/guardian home’, which means they are classed as ‘commuter students’. Before coming to City, I have to admit that I hadn’t really come across the term before, but it’s certainly one that I have become more acquainted…Continue Reading Did you know that City has the second highest percentage of commuter students in the UK?
In June, the School of Arts and Social Sciences held its first Learning and Teaching Awards. Our own Connie Tse and Dina Fainberg, lecturer in Modern History, presented the Digital Vault project, a student-produced database of historical documents, for which they won the runner-up prize. What is the Digital History Vault? The Digital Vault is…Continue Reading Students as Producers: the Digital History Vault
Back in May I attended the Learning Environments conference with colleague Dom Pates. The event was held at the Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park London, with academic and professional delegates from higher education, architect companies, developers, design agencies and furniture manufacturers. A distinguished set of presenters led us through a variety of case studies and research projects…Continue Reading The Design and Management of Learning Environments – ‘Integrated Approaches for Influencing Value and Change’
The day before the main Learning Environments conference, Dom Pates and I ran a new Pedagogy of Space workshop, subtitled; ‘Why Do We Put Furniture in a Learning Space?’ This is a new addition to our portfolio of active workshops focussed on learning environment design and development. Our brief to delegates was this, learning environment…Continue Reading Designing Learning Environments To Encourage Collaboration – An afternoon fringe event to the Learning Environments Conference
For the past 6 months or so Dom Pates and I have been hosting the LEaD Blog writing group. It’s usually the first week of the month at lunchtime and we’ve varied the day to try and see what timing works for people (and for us!). This year we did some writing exercises inspired by…Continue Reading Calling all bloggers! come do a ‘show off’ at the LEaD blog writing group!
Would you like to play a game? One of my favourite sessions at EUNIS19 was the snakes and ladders game presented by Gill Ferrell and Eleanor Magennis based on the ucisa Learning Spaces toolkit. The presentation showcased some of the spaces in the toolkit and mentioned two items of interest: Research on social learning spaces…Continue Reading Snakes and ladders, discovering my digital skills and other highlights from EUNIS19
Moodle was successfully updated to version 3.6 and was released to our users at 7am on Monday 15th July. Getting to know Moodle 3.6 To help you make the most of the new features and to find your way round Moodle, we have developed some User tours that will play when you access Moodle. These…Continue Reading Welcome to Moodle 3.6
“Bricks will be replaced by clicks” they said in the early 2000s, suggesting a move away from physical campuses in favour of more virtual spaces, with campus managers becoming IT managers. Fast forward 19 years and Professor Alexandra den Heijer from TU Delft opens the EUNIS19 congress (view slides) confirming that campuses are still here…Continue Reading Bricks will be replaced by clicks – Campus for the future – EUNIS19