Author: Daniel Scott – Digital Curriculum Support and Developer, Nottingham Trent University When you join an online community of practice, it is often a daunting process to get acquainted with the people and a sense of the culture that resides Read more…
Author: Sam Pywell – Digital Development Coach, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, and Principal Lecturer: Social Prescribing Unit Coordinator at the University of Central Lancashire January 2022 involved the planning and delivery of UCLan’s first off-site hybrid conference. As part of Read more…
Author: Amy Craig, Centre for Collaborative Learning This week is Student Volunteer Week in the UK, this has made me think about the benefits for volunteering or giving back to your community. At UCLan our Centre for Volunteering and Community Read more…
Author: Beverley McCormick – Educator and Advisor, ClickView Delivering lessons online has become an integral part of teaching, and it doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon. As with any teaching, it is important that we take time Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth, Educational Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning, UCLan It is increasingly evident that alongside the core (‘hard’) skills associated with academic disciplines, what are termed ‘soft skills’ play an important part in giving people a fuller portfolio of Read more…
Author: Amy Craig, Academic Development Administrator, Centre for Collaborative Learning, University of Central Lancashire As an Academic have you ever finished a session and thought “that went really well” or “the students loved the new software that I used for Read more…
Author: Laura Ridings, eLearning Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning, University of Central Lancashire I first heard about Augmented Reality at the back end of 2009, I read about lots of exciting things that were happening in the world of print Read more…
Author: Laura Ridings, eLearning Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning, University of Central Lancashire What is Virtual Reality? You will have heard people talk about virtual reality (VR) but you may not know what it is or how it is used Read more…
Author: Laura Ward – E-learning Developer in the Centre for Collaborative Learning at the University of Central Lancashire The expression ‘patience is a virtue’ has never rung as true as the wait for the Immersive Learning Lab. As an elearning Read more…
Author: Sam Pywell – Digital Development Coach, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, and Principal Lecturer: Social Prescribing Unit Coordinator at the University of Central Lancashire Being a ‘digital disruptor’ within higher education (in the creative sense), is to see the entire Read more…