Author: Jean Duckworth – Senior Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery) In 2005 I started my personal journey teaching online postgraduate courses. Over that time technology has undergone vast changes and these changes have enabled the course team to take advantage of these developments to enhance the student experience. Read more…
Author: Graeme Tobyn – Senior Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery) Helping students to learn how to make an effective search for literature by showing them how to manipulate database search facilities is as easy online and at a distance as it is to demonstrate in the classroom. In Read more…
Author: Hazel Partington – Senior Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery) I had previously engaged with the Microsoft Educator Community (MEC) and achieved my Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE), and Microsoft Innovative Educator-Expert (MIE-E) status. I had found this a really useful process to go, with short courses that helped Read more…
Author: Nick Bohannon – Senior Lecturer (School of Nursing) I hadn’t heard of BETT until two months ago. Apparently, it stands for British Education and Training Technology, and it is huge! Approximately 35,000 people attend it over the three days, and we were invited to speak there by Microsoft. Amazing Read more…
Author: Chris Melia, TELT Setting the scene At the University of Central Lancashire there are many institutional challenges that we face. One of the core themes of our Learning and Teaching Strategy, is to ensure that we provide inspiring learning environments for our students. Though we often focus on the Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth, TELT Turnitin’s GradeMark tool allows tutors to add a range of feedback formats to student papers. Staff can include short text comments, larger general comments, audio clips and grading schemes. One of the most widely used options is QuickMarks. Here tutor create and apply pre-set text comments Read more…
Author: Colette Fuller, TELT Colleagues from TELT and specialist technical staff within Learning and Technical Resources will soon be conducting a pilot on micro learning tutorials with students in our science labs. The team have established that students would benefit from a short ‘refresher’ before starting their practical in the Read more…