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 Read more…
Author: Jane Fitzgerald – Lecturer (School of Health Sciences) On the 17th April UCLan hosted Microsoft’s Digital Transformation at Scale conference. From keynote speakers to individual workshops, the day was pure inspiration from start to finish. I learned that digital 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
Author: Megan Blease – Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery) I wanted to reflect on my journey so far within the DigiLearn Recognition Programme. I was added to the Teams space whilst returning to do some keep in touch Read more…
Author: Jan Thomson, TELT MEDIAL is a new mashup tool within Blackboard Learn that facilitates the ability to embed audio and video content directly within a Blackboard space without the need to copy and paste any HTML coding or logging 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 Read more…