Author: Charlotte Barrow – Senior Lecturer in Education and Co-Chair Women’s Network, University of Central Lancashire For over a decade, I’ve been harping on about the fact that the notion of ‘non-traditional’ students is a fairly redundant term in universities. Whilst varying across programmes and disciplines, I know that many Read more…
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…
Author: Lyndsay Cooke – Lecturer in Nursing, University of Central Lancashire I’ll start with a little about me… I teach in the School of Nursing on the BSc, MSc and Nursing Associate Programmes, with a particular interest in Adult and Mental Health Nursing (my predominant background). When I started as Read more…
Author: Rory Parkinson – Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics & Sociology as Applied to Medicine and Healthcare, University of Central Lancashire Engaging students in our teaching sessions can be challenging. Have you ever had that class where no matter what you say to them, you have someone in the back row playing Read more…
Author: Laura Ward, Senior eLearning Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning. The culture around the idea of accessibility has started to shift as changes in digital expectations occur, Higher Education courses of study evolve and diversify, and life and global events shape the way technology is consumed. Changes in Digital Expectations: Read more…
Author: Suhaylah Patel – Lecturer in Adult Nursing, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) When I first started at UCLan, I became very familiar with the use of presentation slides in taught sessions. However, the famous student phrase ‘death by PowerPoint’ inspired me to explore alternative options. Enter… Wakelet! Although I Read more…
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…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth – Educational Developer, University of Central Lancashire As a result of the Covid lockdown, it has felt as if we have undergone a sea-change in terms of our relationship to learning. There can hardly be a member of staff in the sector that has not had to Read more…
Author: Matthew Clarke – PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) Co-ordinator, University of Central Lancashire The ways in which tutors can engage students in their learning, are changing. Chris Headleand (2021) defines student engagement as ‘involving students in learning’. However, to involve all students in their learning, tutors have had to Read more…
Authors: Karen Margaret Wright – Professor of Nursing (UCLan), Gioele Attardo – Adult Nursing Lecturer (UCLan), Tiffany Sinclair – Senior Lecturer in Mental Health (UCLan) [Blog header image by Gioele Attardo] The Research Informed Teaching (RiT) protocol for the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) indicates that RiT, amongst all benefits, Read more…