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 Read more…
Author: Kelly Stewart – Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education Arghh!!! As a positive person who loves working with lots of people, I’m finding working online is really difficult. Add to the ‘enforced happiness at home mix’ three active boys 9, 11 and soon to be Read more…
Author: Debi Spencer – Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport & Health Sciences at UCLan Engaging students is a challenge we all face as academics today. With the myriad of tools available it can sometimes seem difficult to find Read more…
Author: Jaqueline Williams – Senior Lecturer (School of Social Work, Care & Community) The concept of visual representation for learning is essentially a simple idea whereby, as educators one provides a visual hook for students to anchor to, as they Read more…
Author: Ridwanah Gurjee – Principal Lecturer (School of Social Work, Care and Community) Naturally, research students, particularly on the Masters in Community Leadership programme, are questioning their ability to analyse the data they have collected, such as, what type of data 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 Read more…
Author: Phil McMillan – TELT The quality of mobile phones and tablet devices has advanced significantly in the last ten years with better screens, improved battery and overall performance and lower costs. These devices have become the ‘do-it-all’ gadget that Read more…
Authors: Andrew Sprake, Lecturer & Jess Macbeth, Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport & Health Sciences at UCLan Challenge This blog reflects on two specific examples of how Microsoft Teams helped to address three common challenges in higher education: Developing learner Read more…
Author: Daniel Scott – Nottingham Trent University I joined the DigiLearn Sector Community in 2019 through invitation and delivered the webinar ‘Enabling and empowering academics to create digitally interactive eLearning content with H5P’ back in June. From thereon I was Read more…
Author: Chris Melia – TELT Hosted by UCLan, the DigiLearn Sector has become a collaborative hub for the sharing of digital practice across the education sector – with 470 members from over 200 different institutions to date. The community hosts Read more…