Author: Caroline Carlin, TELT On the 20th June our Lynda.com subscription upgraded to the new LinkedIn Learning platform. The upgrade gives us access to all the same great content (now in seven languages), with a fresh new interface and a whole host of additional features. Why have we upgraded? LinkedIn bought Read more…
Author: Leah Kirk – Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery) My name is Leah Kirk and I am a Lecturer in Midwifery. I wanted to write about the use of Microsoft Teams within the midwifery team. As a group of lecturers, we have worked really hard to ensure all Read more…
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: Neil Carroll, TELT We are excited to announce that we will be launching Blackboard Ally as part of the move to managed hosting (SaaS) in August 2019. What is Ally? Ally is a tool integrated within Blackboard to help you make your uploaded documents more accessible. It provides: An Read more…
Author: Ali Melling – Project Manager Volunteering Section (School of Social Work, Care & Community The Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadership (CVCL), based within the Faculty of Health and Well-Being at the University of Central Lancashire, exists to co-create socially just positive change, through peer to peer knowledge exchange. Read more…
Author: Val Lawrenson, SFHEA Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching valawreson@uclan.ac.uk As a person of a certain age I believe I’ve earned the right to say, “I know where you’re coming from”, “I get it”, “me too”. The last 3 decades has seen extraordinary developments in technology. Party line phones have been replaced with watches that have the capacity to monitor activity levels Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin, TELT . Animation: Laura Ridings, TELT The world of work is changing at a rapid pace. Digital innovations such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and augmented/virtual reality are creating new roles, transforming existing ones and making others non-existent. Whilst this shift presents exciting opportunities, it also demands Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth, TELT Contract cheating, where a student either contracts someone to write the submission for them or has the content provided for them by another party, is an issue that’s increasingly troubling the HE sector. The fact that contract cheating can act to undermine academic integrity is compounded Read more…
Author: Kirstie Harrison, School of Nursing Existing Approach or Challenge “We’ve always done it this way” I don’t know about how you feel when you hear this phrase, but I believe that it can really stifle a team’s motivation for change, hinder innovation and really disrupt a team that is 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…