‘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 crashes and frozen screens, and using machinery that incessantly beeps Read more…

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 legacy resources as the resources handed down from one tutor Read more…

Guest post – DigiLearn Sector: A picture is worth a thousand words… and a video is worth a million pictures (Ankala Subbarao)

Author: Beverley McCormick – Advisor, ClickView  During the last two years, the consumption of video as a valid means for supporting learning has skyrocketed.  As the nation downloaded video on a scale never seen before, the quest to seek out and use higher quality digital media content also grew.  Many teachers demonstrated their digital prowess by Read more…

Suffering from lecture lethargy? Break free and create an escape room

Authors: By Emma Gillaspy @egillaspy, Abhi Jones @AbhilashaJones, Gemma Spencer @gemmawhite84 and Julia Robinson @JuliaRobbo73 (UCLan) What? Did you know that escape rooms are a growing phenomenon? They usually involve a group of people locked in a physical or virtual room, often based around a chosen theme. The overall aim is to escape from the room, but to achieve this they must work Read more…