Update to this post, thanks to Dr Jim Turner (LJMU) Current Chair of ELESIG, for this blog post, Charting Uncharted Waters: How ELESIG’s Roundtable Sheds Light on AI’s Neurodiverse Students’ Education which summarises the webinar and has the following tips. Tips for thinking through AI and Neurodiversity Here is a summary of some of the…Continue Reading Event Invite: AI and Neurodiversity, what should we be talking about?
Health’s Got Talent 2022 – Inclusivity
Health’s Got Talent is back After a pandemic-related pause of two years, Health’s Got Talent (HGT) returned on 14th July in a new hybrid format. HGT is the School of Health and Psychological Sciences’ (SHPS) showcase event for celebrating and sharing good practice in teaching and learning. Staff from each of the school’s six…Continue Reading Health’s Got Talent 2022 – Inclusivity
Using MS Teams Channels for Groupwork and Prize-Giving.
Case study with Professor Elaine Fahey (City Law School) The significant expansion in the kinds of tools and practices available for online education presented by the pandemic has left City, University of London with more means for enabling and supporting different types of initiatives that were not available pre-pandemic. In this example we find out…Continue Reading Using MS Teams Channels for Groupwork and Prize-Giving.
LEaD Digital Education at City
Digital Education, the new name for the Educational Technology Team within LEaD Introducing LEaD Digital Education The LEaD Educational Technology Team have a new name! In light of the changes that have occurred over the past year and the increase in prominence of digital education both at City and across the education sector, we thought…Continue Reading LEaD Digital Education at City
Group work online – Creating a magazine remotely
Over seven weeks, across four continents and more time zones, they’ve managed to do all the things we would normally do in the production module apart from produce a printed magazine”. Read the magazine online: Reset Magazine https://t.co/KNm842TKon?amp=1 Academic: Yuen Chan – Senior Lecturer department of Journalism Course: Masters in International Journalism …Continue Reading Group work online – Creating a magazine remotely
Autumn Teaching Innovators’ event: Leonie Fleischmann and the teaching activities toolkit
Last week the LEaD School of Health Sciences (SHS) and School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS) School Liaison Team ran its Autumn term Innovators’ session. We had the pleasure of hearing about SASS lecturer Leonie Fleischmann’s online toolkit of teaching activities, which she developed in collaboration with LEaD….Continue Reading Autumn Teaching Innovators’ event: Leonie Fleischmann and the teaching activities toolkit
Getting to know the ‘sticky’ campus
“We live in a world where the workforces of today and tomorrow need to continuously learn and constantly reskill in order to flourish ina newly peripatetic and ever-changing job market place. We, as a society can therefore no longer afford to think of education as something that occurs primarily in our formative years”. Nathan Hurley,…Continue Reading Getting to know the ‘sticky’ campus
Why did I start blogging? Present Absence
Recently, Dom Pates, Jane Secker and I were discussing the future of the blogging group once I leave City (more about that later). We ended up talking about why we started blogging. Here’s my answer. My first blog post dates back to February 2008. What were you doing then? I was living in Sao Paulo,…Continue Reading Why did I start blogging? Present Absence
Funding opportunity to develop your teaching
Would you like to implement a new approach to teaching or a new assessment activity? Or, do you want to undertake a research study to evaluate an approach you have already implemented? If you are a member of City, University of London staff, Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) have a fund available to help…Continue Reading Funding opportunity to develop your teaching
The Psychology of Collaboration – Herman Miller Seminar
The Psychology of Collaboration, presented by Bertie van Wyk, based on a paper by Dr. Nigel Oseland. http://bit.ly/2uOrLj8 Bertie van Wyk [BVW] is a workplace specialist, a communicator on human work insights, across Europe and USA. Twitter hashtags – @bertievw @hminsightgroup If you’re a morning person, by 4pm your brain capacity is the same as if…Continue Reading The Psychology of Collaboration – Herman Miller Seminar