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UCL has a teaching and learning portal - which looks good, and exciting! Require s a dedicated editor but highlights the importance and strength of teaching at UCL. 

UCL Medical School - Teaching resources

Some useful tips on innovating teaching and changing approach

"approaches, the challenge of translating this across the higher education sector remains. The reasons are complex and multifold: educational rules and restrictions in different countries, access, technical resources, ICT literacy, teaching capacity, and teaching cultures are widely cited. One key issue is concerned with cultural issues, teachers' belief systems and their day to day practice. Teacher practice is still predominately built around a notion of teacher as expert and student as recipient. Despite the shift in educational thinking towards more constructivist "

Bibliography of articles around online teaching with links to full articles

Challenges and benefits of blended and online learning

"The three universities have invested considerable thought into something less often discussed in the press: how education on their own campuses would benefit from their MOOC efforts. Both faculty members and those in senior administration with responsibility for MOOCs note that the faculty are now more engaged in discussing pedagogy and learning outcomes and that new teaching methods enabled by MOOCs (such as flipped classrooms), and lessons learned from engaging in MOOCs (such as the value of shorter lecture segments and more frequent testing for understanding), are being applied to residential education in interesting ways."

"the Moodle VLE was evaluated. Feedback from students on their experience of using peer assessment/review and the Workshop tool was very positive. A user guide has been developed with LTS for Module teams to use the workshop tool. A number of modules have started to use the "

Lessons that Institutions can take from Moocs to apply to teaching & learning

"Thus, we arrive at lesson number one for creating blended learning: choose the modality to suit the learning objectives, not the other way around. Always choose the most effective means to teach your learning objectives. If, for example, the material requires working with content, not people, a self-paced module might be perfect. If your audience needs to access the information at their own pace, or at any time, self-paced is a good choice. If coaching is involved, face-to-face may be best. Wikis, threaded discussions, blogs and many other tools can be used. The possibilities are many, but the modality used should fit your learning objectives."

Moocs, byod, gamification and learning analytics. Useful info on cost of moocs for an institution and the number of production and teaching hours required