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 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 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. 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 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 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 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…