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…
Author: Rachel Imms, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy One of the modules that I lead includes anatomy and physiology for occupational therapy students. Teaching this has varied challenges, and arguably one of the most significant, is the huge amount of content that needs to be covered. The students have a variety of background knowledge, Read more…
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: 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: Deborah Spencer – Senior Lecturer (School of Health Sciences) For this blog I want to talk about how I have used Flipgrid in my digital teaching and learning strategy. Students on Post Registration study can sometimes feel daunted using technology in their programmes. I deliver a module on Transcultural Read more…
Author: Jan Thomson (TELT) We are pleased to announce that Blackboard is now running as a cloud hosted (SaaS) service. All existing courses and data, as of the morning of the 11th July 2019, have now been fully migrated to the new service. Benefits of managed hosting (SaaS) include: A 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: 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: 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: Simon Hawkesworth, TELT Turnitin’s GradeMark tool allows tutors to add a range of feedback formats to student papers. Staff can include short text comments, larger general comments, audio clips and grading schemes. One of the most widely used options is QuickMarks. Here tutor create and apply pre-set text comments Read more…