Author: Jan Thomson, TELT We are pleased to announce that Blackboard, the University’s Virtual Learning Environment is moving to a managed hosting (SaaS) deployment method over the summer. This will take place between the 11th to the 15th July 2019. Please be aware that this will involve an estimated 2-3 Read more…
Author: Neesha Ridley – Senior Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery) The Royal College of Nursing (2018) recognise the change in the role of the nurse and midwife over recent years. Within health care, data and technology has become central to the work of nurses and midwives, where most students and staff already document Read more…
Author: Chris Melia, TELT It’s been just over two years since the release of Microsoft’s collaborative workspace – Microsoft Teams, so what better time to share some advice and tips around how you can obtain and increase learner engagement with the platform. Organising your Team Appropriately title the Team to Read more…
Author: Bryan Jones – Principal Lecturer (School of Sport and Wellbeing) The landscape of learning is changing, and we are at the centre of a learning revolution. The learner has a very different set of skills, needs, preferences and aspirations to those of students who attended University only 5 years Read more…
Author: Colette Fuller, TELT Colleagues from TELT and specialist technical staff within Learning and Technical Resources will soon be conducting a pilot on micro learning tutorials with students in our science labs. The team have established that students would benefit from a short ‘refresher’ before starting their practical in the Read more…
Author: Val Lawrenson, SFHEA Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching valawreson@uclan.ac.uk Since returning after the summer I had been getting along quite successfully dodging TEAMS. To be honest I thought it was just another intrusion. After all, did we really need another internal communication method? Teams seemed to have a Read more…
Author: Val Lawarenson, SFHEA Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching One of my responsibilities as an Academic Developer in CELT is to facilitate implementation of institutional policy. As Course Leader on a CPD programme for new academics l believe l also have an obligation to introduce technology (where appropriate) to enhance Read more…
Author: Jan Thomson, TELT We are pleased to announce that we will be launching the new responsive design for Blackboard Learn and the Student Portal as part of our 2019 summer upgrade. The new updated theme will deliver a contemporary, streamlined feel and significantly increase the responsiveness of the interface Read more…
Author: Adrian Ibbetson – Head of School (School of Sport and Wellbeing) My name is Adrian Ibbetson and I am Head of School of Sport and Wellbeing. I am a member of the Microsoft Educator Community and have recently achieved Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert status. I am a UCLan DigiLearn Practitioner, which is a University scheme that is being piloted Read more…