Learning Enhancement and Development
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  4. Qualifications & accreditation
  5. LEaD projects
  6. Student Skills for Learning
    1. Designing Active Learning Initiative (DALI)
    2. Learning Analytics
    3. ISLA [Inclusive Synchronous Learning Activities] Project
    4. Digital Literacies Project
Learning Enhancement and Development

LEaD projects & initiatives

LEaD are involved in a number of collaborative projects and initiatives at City.

Digital Literacies Project

Digital literacies is a term which encapsulates not only the skills required to use technology but also confidence, appropriate use, and the various literacies associated with using technology, such as information literacy, communication and collaboration literacy and media literacy.

The project aims to understand, support and develop the digital literacies of City's staff and students to support effective use of technology.

Find out more about the Digital Literacies Project

ISLA [Inclusive Synchronous Learning Activities]

Inclusive Synchronous Learning Activities is the working title for the ISLA project, a new pedagogic and technical methodology for live teaching simultaneously to students who are situated both on campus and online.

Find out more about the ISLA project

Digital Accessibility

This is a 3-year initiative designed to review and improve City’s digital accessibility. There is an initial emphasis our teaching and learning platforms and digital resources. The initiative consists of a suite of technical projects and a range of staff development activities.

Find out more about the Digital Accessibility project

DALI - Designing Active Learning Initiative

This 5 to 7-year project focuses on the creation of technology-enhanced learning spaces that enable higher level or active learning.

Find out more about the DALI project

LeAP – Learning Analytics Project

The Learning Analytics Project (LeAP) at City is exploring how Learning Analytics can be used to improve students’ educational experience and support the institution’s education performance indicators relating to progression and attainment.

Find out more about the LeAP project

Measuring value and impact for educational developers

This project is a response to emerging trends and patterns that seek to measure aspects of academic work and the student experience. Educational Development work has not been exempted from this level of scrutiny with units increasingly required to demonstrate value for money and evidence of impact.

Such approaches are frequently metric based and rarely meaningfully capture the richness and transformational nature of Educational Development work.

Find out more about the Measuring value and impact for educational developers project

Experience of academic staff in relation to educational technologies and its impact and implications on digital literacies and open practices

he overall aim of this project is to answer the following questions:

  • What is the experience of staff who use educational technologies and how do their attitudes towards digital literacies and open practices impact on their teaching?
  • How are staff currently supported to develop a good understanding of these literacies and practices as part of these two modules which form part of the MA in Academic Practice at City, University of London and what additional support might they need?

Find out more about the Experience of academic staff in relation to educational technologies and its impact and implications on digital literacies and open practices project Educational Technology Review project

Encouraging playful approaches in academic environments

The significance of play in relation to child development has long been accepted, but there is a growing recognition that play and games can have a key role in working environments for adults too.   Play, or games, can encourage creativity and enable greater problem solving skills as well as prompting team work and engagement.  This is potentially significant for the mission of universities to deliver high quality teaching that is research informed.  Engaging in playful practices could help engage students more successfully as well as equipping students more effectively for future employment.

Find out more about the Encouraging playful approaches in academic environments project

Student and Staff Experiences of Assessment: What Lessons Can Be Learned from the Lockdown Years?

This research is designed to learn from student experiences of online assessment during the pandemic. It aims to identify the benefits and challenges of existing assessments according to the students who take them, in order to facilitate an evidence-based approach to the ongoing development and improvement of assessment practice at City, University of London post-pandemic.

Find out more about the student and staff experiences of assessment project