Author: Colette Eaton – Lecturer and Placement Co-ordinator: Health & Social Care As the placement co-ordinator for our Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care, I am always looking for creative ways for our students to record their learning and development through their placement experiences. Up until two years ago, Read more…
Author: Kelly Stewart – Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education Arghh!!! As a positive person who loves working with lots of people, I’m finding working online is really difficult. Add to the ‘enforced happiness at home mix’ three active boys 9, 11 and soon to be 13 and it sounds like a recipe for disaster. My Read more…
Author: Debi Spencer – Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport & Health Sciences at UCLan Engaging students is a challenge we all face as academics today. With the myriad of tools available it can sometimes seem difficult to find the best way to engage students in active teaching and Read more…
Author: Jaqueline Williams – Senior Lecturer (School of Social Work, Care & Community) The concept of visual representation for learning is essentially a simple idea whereby, as educators one provides a visual hook for students to anchor to, as they develop their knowledge and explore their learning across the session. Read more…
Author: Ridwanah Gurjee – Principal Lecturer (School of Social Work, Care and Community) Naturally, research students, particularly on the Masters in Community Leadership programme, are questioning their ability to analyse the data they have collected, such as, what type of data will help me answer my research questions? How will I Read more…
Author: Anne Jarvis – Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport and Health Sciences at UCLan This account details my experience of utilising Teams to develop appropriate transferrable skills in a neuroscience nurse cohort in higher education. Challenge: The main challenges within my working sphere of nurse education were the Read more…
Author: Phil McMillan – TELT The quality of mobile phones and tablet devices has advanced significantly in the last ten years with better screens, improved battery and overall performance and lower costs. These devices have become the ‘do-it-all’ gadget that allow us to complete complex professional work in a small Read more…
Author: Daniel Scott – Nottingham Trent University I joined the DigiLearn Sector Community in 2019 through invitation and delivered the webinar ‘Enabling and empowering academics to create digitally interactive eLearning content with H5P’ back in June. From thereon I was invited to be a co-ordinator for the online community. On Read more…
Author: Chris Melia – TELT Hosted by UCLan, the DigiLearn Sector has become a collaborative hub for the sharing of digital practice across the education sector – with 470 members from over 200 different institutions to date. The community hosts a regular series of informative webinars, as well as on-going Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth – TELT When designing online content, the issue of colour is rarely high on the list of considerations, being left more to the personal preference of the content developer, or at best, driven by some aspect of institutional branding. And yet the use (or misuse) of colour, Read more…