Author: Susan Putt, School of Management, UCLan In the seemingly ever-changing environment of teaching and learning in Higher Education it’s important to periodically take some time out to consider the landscape and recalibrate. It’s from this reflection that my search began for new ideas and perspectives on presenting module content Read more…
Author: Penny Dineen, Study Skills Tutor, Centre for Collaborative Learning, UCLan By way of introduction Penny comes from a background of educational development, management, and organisational culture in HE, and is currently working as an Academic Skills Advisor with the WISER team, and part of the CCL community at UCLan. Read more…
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 within it. Depending on the rationale and nature of the 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 the planning process, the following considerations were discussed: Off-site WiFi 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 Leadership are hosting a student Volunteering fair to inform students 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 to stop and reflect on our practice. We need to 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 abilities that they can use in employment. Soft skills are 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 that task”. Wouldn’t it be nice to get some recognition 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 to bring the page to life and I thought that 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 in learning and education. VR refers to interactive content (images Read more…