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 Excel. VLOOKUP, I had learned, was an excel formula useful Read more…
Author: Sam Pywell – Principal Lecturer: Social Prescribing Unit Coordinator at the University of Central Lancashire With the new academic term upon us, the case for a more compassionate approach to conversations of student and staff digital needs, is placed contextually in our world of rising costs, climate anxiety and barriers to Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth – Educational Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning, University of Central Lancashire For over two decades, there have been discussions and legislative initiatives concerning how we might make the digital world more inclusive and accessible. A series of UK parliamentary Acts, from the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) to Read more…
Author: Nick Treuherz, Lecturer in French, School of Humanities, Language & Global Studies As teaching practitioners getting into technology-enabled approaches and tools, we are always looking to new tools and advanced methods to enable our students to learn and make progress. I think many of us have all at one 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: 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: Sam Pywell – Digital Development Coach, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, and Principal Lecturer: Social Prescribing Unit Coordinator at the University of Central Lancashire Being a ‘digital disruptor’ within higher education (in the creative sense), is to see the entire landscape of HE as ‘boundless’. It is to not do Read more…
Author: Ian Wilson – Senior Lecturer in Education, York St John University The future is unknown but, as Abraham Lincoln stated – “’The Best way to predict the future is to create it’? As we look to the future from a point within the current situation where the end is hopefully in sight, I have been thinking about whether we are preparing learners for the future and whether, our roles as educators will still be needed or Read more…
Authors: Andrew Sprake, Lecturer & Jess Macbeth, Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport & Health Sciences at UCLan Challenge This blog reflects on two specific examples of how Microsoft Teams helped to address three common challenges in higher education: Developing learner autonomy Facilitating effective group collaboration Developing students’ digital skills in Read more…