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Check your assets: Shining a light on your own capital

Author: Charlotte Barrow – Senior Lecturer in Education and Co-Chair Women’s Network, University of Central Lancashire For over a decade, I’ve been harping on about the fact that the notion of ‘non-traditional’ students is a fairly redundant term in universities. Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 3 yearsAugust 30, 2023 ago
Content Creation

‘Not another PowerPoint!’: Ending the stigma

Authors: Jessica Cooper (Nurse Educator, University of Central Lancashire) and Emma Chambers (Adult Nursing Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire) We’re both relatively new to the University and our academic journeys. Having come from nursing backgrounds, we’re already used to system Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 3 yearsAugust 23, 2023 ago
Gamification

Snap! Using flip cards to aid learning

Author: Lyndsay Cooke – Lecturer in Nursing, University of Central Lancashire I’ll start with a little about me… I teach in the School of Nursing on the BSc, MSc and Nursing Associate Programmes, with a particular interest in Adult and Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 3 yearsJuly 19, 2023 ago
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Digital Skills

You can LOOKUP on a sunny day, but does that mean you should?

Author: Carly Garratt – PASS Co-ordinator, Student Achievement Services, University of Central Lancashire Not too long ago I had opened a couple of web pages, an e-book, and a Teams chat, hoping to figure out the art of VLOOKUP in Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 3 yearsJune 21, 2023 ago
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Collaboration

The Dark Art of Teaching – Student Engagement

Author: Rory Parkinson – Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics & Sociology as Applied to Medicine and Healthcare, University of Central Lancashire Engaging students in our teaching sessions can be challenging. Have you ever had that class where no matter what you say Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 3 yearsJune 14, 2023 ago
Inclusivity

Accessibility is for everyone.

Author: Laura Ward, Senior eLearning Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning. The culture around the idea of accessibility has started to shift as changes in digital expectations occur, Higher Education courses of study evolve and diversify, and life and global events Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 3 yearsMarch 29, 2023 ago
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CPD

Taking back our privacy!

Author: Matt Sessions – Lecturer in Digital Policing, University of Central Lancashire  I should probably start with giving a little context as to who I am and what I do, I teach Digital Policing in the School of Justice and Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 4 yearsMarch 22, 2023 ago
Teaching and Learning

Supporting accessible learning with Wakelet

Author: Suhaylah Patel – Lecturer in Adult Nursing, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) When I first started at UCLan, I became very familiar with the use of presentation slides in taught sessions. However, the famous student phrase ‘death by PowerPoint’ Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 4 yearsMarch 15, 2023 ago
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Assessment and feedback

Using ChatGPT

Author: Narmin Nahidi – Lecturer in Fintech, University of Central Lancashire Higher education institutions are constantly exploring ways to improve their assessment and evaluation processes to ensure that students receive accurate and fair evaluations of their knowledge and skills. The Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 4 yearsMarch 8, 2023 ago
Content Creation

From PowerPoint presentation to immersive virtual tour: A pedagogy first approach to redesigning teaching using technology

Author: Laura Ward, Senior eLearning Developer, UCLan Academic SME: Bob Gallagher, School of Natural Sciences (Forensics) As with many eLearning projects it starts with a teaching and learning challenge. In this case two sides of the same situation: I class Read more…

By UCLan Centre for Collaborative Learning, 4 yearsMarch 1, 2023 ago

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