Author: Amy Craig, Centre for Collaborative Learning This week is Student Volunteer Week in the UK, this has made me think about the benefits for volunteering or giving back to your community. At UCLan our Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadership are hosting a student Volunteering fair to inform students Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth, Educational Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning, UCLan It is increasingly evident that alongside the core (‘hard’) skills associated with academic disciplines, what are termed ‘soft skills’ play an important part in giving people a fuller portfolio of abilities that they can use in employment. Soft skills are Read more…
Author: Ian Wilson – Senior Lecturer in Education, York St John University The future is unknown but, as Abraham Lincoln stated – “’The Best way to predict the future is to create it’? As we look to the future from a point within the current situation where the end is hopefully in sight, I have been thinking about whether we are preparing learners for the future and whether, our roles as educators will still be needed or Read more…
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…
Author: Jenny Lamb – Senior Lecturer (School of Social Work, Care & Community) By failing to enthusiastically engage in technology-enhanced learning and teaching, we are doing our students a disservice and harming their employability and opportunity for success. Not having time or being a ‘technophobe’ is no longer acceptable if Read more…
Author: Samantha Pywell – Practice Learning Support Tutor (Faculty of Health and Wellbeing) As a community Occupational Therapist in the NHS, both myself and colleagues would have loved a way to connect more with local universities to contribute knowledge and skills. At the time, I was doing a part time MSc whilst working and loved Read more…