Turning Point Clickers have performed a faithful student response system service for many years across the University, being borrowed and returned in locations near and far, and this was an excellent system to prove how…
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Getting Better: On Tech Bazaars in Aircraft Hangars (1/2)
2018 was my fourth year to attend Bett, one of the world’s largest educational technology trade events, and my third time as a speaker. This is the first of two posts, reflecting on the actual…
Copyright, technology and teaching
A few months ago I was honoured to find out I had been appointed to the Intellectual Property Office’s governance group, the Copyright Advisory Panel. This group is largely made up of senior representatives from…
‘I’ll Skype You In’ – LEaD event for International City Week
Do you use tools like Skype or Adobe Connect in your teaching or collaborative research? Have you ever tried to bring a remote speaker into a seminar, or attempted a live collaboration between people at…
Moments in VR
VR as EdTech? Virtual Reality (VR) as a digital technology usable for educational purposes is still at the imaginative foothills of any potential it might have. Educators, educationalists and learners are only just starting to…
DALI lights up over 40 learning spaces – here at City
DALI – An update from the Designing Active Learning Initiative The transformation of City’s learning spaces is taking place over the summer months, for the second year…
Designing better learning environments – the M25 Learning Technology Group comes to City
On 24th July, City hosted the M25 Learning Technology Group for the first time since 2011 and welcomed over 35 delegates from around London and the South East. The focus of the session was on…
Teaching academic writing: a conference in seven tweets
I recently attended one of the three days of the 9th Conference of the European Association for Teaching Academic Writing, hosted this year by Royal Holloway, University of London. As an Academic Learning Support…
UCISA Spotlight on Digital Capabilities
This is my first blog post for the Department of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) at City, University of London, having started as Senior Lecturer in Educational Development shortly after Easter. I’m settling in well…
Considerations for a Law (CLS) specific future-proofed lecture theatre
In June 2015 the LEaD team ran a focus group with academic staff in the City Law school (CLS) who use the Atkin Lecture Theatre to deliver the schools professional programmes. This review took place…
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