Caroline Carlin

Collaboration

Guest post – DigiLearn: Building relationships in an online setting

Author: Sarah Johnson – Lecturer in Midwifery Imagine the challenge of commencing a professional undergraduate degree online, the same day as the national lockdown; this was the case for the March 2020 midwifery learning community. Learners starting university in the pandemic, missed out on coffee and lunches together, general chit chat, getting to know each other, working together on assignments in the library, drinks at the Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 months3 months ago

Collaboration

Practice Makes Perfect

Author: Kevan Williams – TELT At no other time in our educational history has there been so much pressure to make use of technology to support the way we learn, teach and work, and all of this in a climate of continual global change. What do I really need to know? Who can Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 4 months4 months ago

Content Creation

Guest post – DigiLearn: Fed up of PowerPoint and Prezi? A new presentation tool; Canva

Author: Hannah Tizard – Lecturer in Midwifery As educators we are, more often than not, looking for new ways to engage and inspire the students we are teaching, and Canva is one of the best new spaces to do so! Canva is an amazing, powerful design tool made for non-designers. Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 4 months5 months ago

CPD

Guest post – DigiLearn: Is jumping straight in the best way to learn?

Author: John Hrycak – Student Coach, School of Psychology & Computer Science Most of us in education probably value the art of learning and have engaged with a combination of study and work … and returns to study … and more work. Working from home may have been a more abrupt and forced Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 5 months5 months ago

Collaboration

Guest post – DigiLearn: Using Wakelet to curate session resources

Author: Jill Dobson – Senior Lecturer in Acute Critical and Emergency Care As a course team, we wanted to maintain consistency for our students in the delivery of each session we delivered online. The course leader provided the structure for how each session could be delivered, but the way this Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 5 months5 months ago

Assessment and feedback

Guest post – DigiLearn: Using Vevox to increase engagement in online tutorials.

Author: Dr Megan Argo – Lecturer in Astrophysics For the last three years I have been teaching on AA1051 Introduction to Astronomy. This is a level 4 module which students take as a stand-alone Certificate course, or as part of our distance learning BSc degree in Astronomy. All the students Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 5 months6 months ago

Content Creation

Guest post – DigiLearn: Escape room challenges (creating opportunities to build community in a fun way)

Author: Maria D Iglesias Mora, Lecturer in Hispanic and Foundation Studies At the start of this academic year, with having to deliver many of the activities during Welcome Week online, educators had to reinvent themselves and to find new ways of creating team-building activities and virtual scavenger hunts for the Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 6 months6 months ago

Content Creation

Guest post – DigiLearn: Digital Communication: Beyond mono-cultural education with Microsoft Presentation Translator

Author: Andrew Grice, Lecturer in International Business Communications. I lecture on the BA (Hons) in International Business Communications at the University Central Lancashire. My education philosophy stems from a belief that as educators, we can construct learning environments that can both help and/or hinder student performance. Interest in technology-enabled teaching Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 6 months6 months ago

DigiLearn

Guest post – DigiLearn: Using the Bookings app for online meetings

Author: Amy Edwards-Smith – Lecturer, School of Community Health and Midwifery I have found that with learning switching to being solely online, students are missing out on dropping into the office to chat, which is crucial to developing rapport and creating a supportive learning community. I wanted to make myself Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 6 months6 months ago

DigiLearn

Guest post – DigiLearn: Exploring gamification within nursing education

Author: Mike Smith – Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing I can remember all too well the sinking dread of being a student sat in a large lecture hall, watching a lecturer set up their 96 slides of mostly text for the 2-hour lecture I was about to be subjected to. Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 6 months6 months ago