Accessing Turnitin Feedback

Audience: City University London students and staff According to our reports on Moodle assessment activity; there were 18 Turnitin assignments due at the beginning of March. This post highlights how students can access the three different types of feedback that lecturers can provide using GradeMark – Turnitin’s feedback system. Click on the Turnitin assignment from…Continue Reading Accessing Turnitin Feedback

The Walking Reading Group and Beyond

The highly successful Walking Reading Group, facilitated by Lydia Ashman, Ania Bas and Simone Mair, finished it’s current iteration of walks with a flurry of activity this month.  Events included a suite of walks in Bilbao, a ‘Walking as Resistance’ walk around parliament and the surrounding area with texts and themes arising from the Human Rights…Continue Reading The Walking Reading Group and Beyond

Futurefest

Futurefest rightly describes itself as ‘Nesta’s flagship weekend event of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers to excite and challenge perceptions of the future.’ The event sprawled across the inspiring spaces of Vinopolis and brought together techies, thinkers, academics, artists, futurologists, journalists, writers, designers and robots. So many ideas that were conceptual at the beginning…Continue Reading Futurefest

Exploring Advanced Moodle Features

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Audience: City University London staff The Blended Learning Theme have developed a series of Moodle workshops exploring some of the more advanced features of assignment, feedback and grader report (aka Gradebook) features in Moodle. We have scheduled these sessions to coincide with the end of Spring Term to support marking and grading with a repeat…Continue Reading Exploring Advanced Moodle Features

Using Moodle’s lesson activity

The Lesson activity in Moodle is not widely used but has a lot of potential for creating engaging learning content such as instructional exercises and branching scenarios. Lesson allows you to present your content as a series of web pages to students. These pages can contain text, images and video. Students can follow a linear…Continue Reading Using Moodle’s lesson activity

BETT-er Learning Spaces and more – Reflections from the BETT Show 2015

Sir Bob Geldof at BETT 2015

Now in its 30th year, the British Education Trade and Technology (BETT) Show 2015 took place at the Excel Centre in London in  January. The BETT show has become one of the largest educational technology shows in the world and there were many exhibitors and speakers of interest to myself and my Learning Spaces colleagues….Continue Reading BETT-er Learning Spaces and more – Reflections from the BETT Show 2015

Media and Learning webinar: The creation of videos to support students’ learning

This Thursday at 2pm, Educational Technologists Martin Agombar and Mo Pamplin are presenting a webinar as part of a series run by the Media and Learning Association. We will be talking about our experiences of working with academic colleagues on video resource projects. If you are creating your own video-based learning resources, want to know…Continue Reading Media and Learning webinar: The creation of videos to support students’ learning

‘Is learning for all?’ – a conference on inclusive learning.

The theme for this year’s Learning at City Conference will focus on inclusive learning and the call for abstracts is now open to City University Staff. This year will mark the 7th successful year of the annual conference and will see it being held off-site and open to external presenters and delegates for the second year…Continue Reading ‘Is learning for all?’ – a conference on inclusive learning.

Teaching, learning, creativity and passion in higher education: notes from a conference about scholarship of teaching and learning

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, Quebec, Canada, 22-25 October. In October 2014, I attended the ISSOTL Conference for the first time. The theme of the conference was Nurturing Passion and Creativity in Teaching and Learning. The event was hosted by Université Laval and held at the Convention Center in…Continue Reading Teaching, learning, creativity and passion in higher education: notes from a conference about scholarship of teaching and learning

Celebrating 20 years of educational research: reflections on two anniversaries

European Conference of Educational Research (ECER) Porto, Portugal, 01-05 September 2014 Researching higher education: 20 years of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research, Lancaster University, 12 September 2014 ECER, 2014: In September 2014, I participated in two events each marking 20 year anniversaries in educational research. First, I attended the European Conference of Educational Research…Continue Reading Celebrating 20 years of educational research: reflections on two anniversaries