MyMoodle is staff and students very own private learning space in Moodle. The aim of MyMoodle is to provide staff and students with a personalised page which helps organise modules and activities within them. These activities could include unread forum posts, upcoming assignments and/or quizzes. MyMoodle, if used to its fullest potential, could be…Continue Reading Moodle 2: A personal MyMoodle
To help welcome the arrival of the improved, enhanced, and new educational technologies that the Educational Technology Community has been working on as part of the University’s Strategic Plan, Cass Business School is holding a Showcase on 7 May to which all City University London staff are invited. Their Teaching and Learning Showcase is an…Continue Reading Showcasing the Best of Educational Technologies
As has been promised in earlier posts, Moodle 2 is on its way to us as our newly improved learning environment. This upgrade will see the release of new features which have been identified as priorities by users using a range of agile and rigorous testing techniques. I’d like to provide a brief overview of…Continue Reading Moodle 2 New features
Hello! I was asked to write an “inaugural” welcome back post so here it is. The title was going to say “back to life, back to reality” but then work can sometimes seem like an alternate “reality” 😉 What with the rather bizarre weather sometimes I feel like I’m entering Narnia. It is good to…Continue Reading Back to life, back to ….
Infographics are excellent ways to communicate information. This one explains the origins and usefulness of the flipped classroom. The concept appears to be simple and is enabled by the recent increased availability of video. Significantly the aim is to improve student learning by creating a face-to-face learning experience that is tailored to student needs, collaborative…Continue Reading Flipped Classroom Infographic
Are we trying to replace academics with robots? Is the underlying mission of e-learning to do away with expensive humans and use much cheaper electronic alternatives? This has been a fear within universities and the arrival of automated assessment technology by a US non-profit company called EdX will compound this anxiety. This software is able…Continue Reading Automated essay grading software
Imagine a suite of spaces, specifically designed for and dedicated to exploring, trying out, developing and sharing innovative teaching ideas. Where you can work with a small group of colleagues for a couple of hours, or run a whole day or even a week long event. Where you could bring a cohort of say 50…Continue Reading Why a Studio? A workshop on Innovative Learning Space at Copenhagen Business School
One of the more exciting developments in Higher Education has been the way in which learning spaces can now be transformed into an interactive fora where students are able to engage with one another in a constructive dialogue. This can take place even in a large lecture space. This can be achieved by using the…Continue Reading Large scale student-student-lecturer Interaction using clickers
Are you involved in educational research at City University London? Are you involved in educational development? Have you made positive educational changes to your course? Or perhaps you’d like to share an opinion or finding around educational development? We would like to invite you to participate in the Educational Vignettes blog. Take a look at…Continue Reading Contribute to the vignettes blog
A number of learning spaces now sport node chairs. These chairs are on castors and can be moved around the room. It has a tray underneath for storing bags and a tray at lap height for computers/tablets/smartphones/books/papers. The chairs can be used individually or pushed together to enable pair or group work. Unfortunately ‘node’ doesn’t…Continue Reading Node chair renaming