Author: Simon Thomson – Director of Flexible Learning, The University of Manchester In June, I had the pleasure of being invited to keynote at the University of Central Lancashire’s ‘CCL Connect: Leading the way in modern learning’ event, around my work on Hybrid Education. This blog post is both a 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: Daniel Scott – Nottingham Trent University I joined the DigiLearn Sector Community in 2019 through invitation and delivered the webinar ‘Enabling and empowering academics to create digitally interactive eLearning content with H5P’ back in June. From thereon I was invited to be a co-ordinator for the online community. On Read more…
Author: Chris Melia – TELT Hosted by UCLan, the DigiLearn Sector has become a collaborative hub for the sharing of digital practice across the education sector – with 470 members from over 200 different institutions to date. The community hosts a regular series of informative webinars, as well as on-going Read more…
Author: Laura Ridings – TELT In August the new responsive and accessible Blackboard platform was rolled out across the University. The VLE team in TELT worked tirelessly to make this an easy transition and the new platform is modern, easy to use across a range of devices and staff and Read more…
Author: Chris Melia – TELT 3rd July 2019 When I heard that Dominic Williamson had announced a series of Microsoft Teams Education roadshow events in the UK, I immediately looked to see what dates were on offer! This was the first time that the MS Teams & MS Education team Read more…
Author: Phil McMillan – TELT 4 June 2019 – 5 June 2019 York, UK The historic city of York housed this year’s annual UCISA Spotlight conference on Digital Capabilities in education, focusing on how we support, develop and prepare staff & learners for future technologies and employment. Presenters and delegates from the UK and Europe attended this two-day event, in Read more…
Author: Jane Fitzgerald – Lecturer (School of Health Sciences) On the 17th April UCLan hosted Microsoft’s Digital Transformation at Scale conference. From keynote speakers to individual workshops, the day was pure inspiration from start to finish. I learned that digital transformation isn’t just at UCLan – it’s across the world 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…