Author: Philip Longwell, Study Skills Tutor, Centre for Collaborative Learning, UCLan Introduction Giving effective feedback to learners is important in many areas of higher education. Academic staff are commonly and acutely aware of the need for feedback to be timely, considered and detailed. Feedback can be both summative, such as Read more…
Authors: Gemma Spencer, Emma Gillaspy, Abhi Jones, Julia Robinson, James Thompson, and Michael Smith (University of Central Lancashire) What? The playful rebellion is made up of an interdisciplinary group of academics on a mission to transform higher education. Whilst we understand that more traditional methods of teaching and learning have 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: 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: 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…
Authors: Sam Pywell – Digital Development Coach, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, and Principal Lecturer: Social Prescribing Unit Coordinator at the University of Central Lancashire Andrew Sprake – Digital Development Coach, and Lecturer in Sport and Physical Education at the University of Central Lancashire Potential exists to learn, attend and engage Read more…
Author: Mike Summersall (@MJSummersall) – Senior Lecturer in Business and Management at the University of Central Lancashire I’d been wrestling with the idea about how we get students communicating more for years, I then discovered FlipGrid. I had wanted to find a tool that reflected outside life (70% of TikTok users 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 Adult learners are experts in understanding how their life situation, challenges and disabilities impact their learning. So, when an adult learner requests to ‘dial in’ to Read more…