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Recent articles about teaching and learning at LCC
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Students and Collaborate
Setting-up meeting rooms for students, using Collaborate for tutorials & advice on careful use of the Collaborate Guest Login feature. Student Meeting Rooms Students have lots of places they can meet online but it is good to give them an option to meet in a UAL space too. You can…
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Make the Grade – Fit to Submit
UAL’s new Online Student Engagement Policy for Course Teams recommends ‘having a discussion of assessment criteria and near-completed work as “fit to submit”’ (2020, p. 4). This refers to a practice introduced and subsequently developed as ‘Make the Grade’ by Terry Finnigan, Head of Student Attainment at LCF (more background in this case study). Make the Grade has since been promoted…
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Studying Online: Guidance for your Students
To help students navigate online learning two students from MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography have written a guide sharing their experiences of online learning. Francesco Pennacchio and Nicholas Schwaiger have produced a guide for students on how to learn and collaborate online using a variety of platforms. (Read more about Francesco…
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Academic Support at LCC – How can we help?
Academic Support comprises an array of tailored and responsive support for students to enable them to develop as learners and enhance their studies and creative practices. With the University’s move en masse to distributed and multimodal forms of instruction, Academic Support remains committed to providing high-quality and inclusive learning for all students that is…
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APT for supporting student progress
At the start of the year I wrote a Hub post introducing course teams to the Academic Progression Tool, a digital, collaborative, monitoring and communication aide for prioritising support to Year 1 students. When we went into lock-down I directly contacted course teams to suggest they work with their APT workbooks and the…
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Living, teaching and learning during a pandemic.
By Emily Salines As we are starting to settle into online delivery, reading again this article by Aisha S. Ahmad in the Chronicle of Higher Education (27 March 2020) – ‘Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure’ – reminds us to breathe and pace ourselves. The article reminds us that…
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LCC Student Changemakers
An introduction to the LCC Student Changemakers, a staff – student collaboration initiative. As an academic community, we are more aware now than ever of the persistent racial inequalities in the higher education sector. The latest sector research says that work to address this needs to be in partnership with students and with sufficient focus on race as a stand-alone issue…
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Placement Activity at LCC – latest guidance regarding the coronavirus pandemic
Hannah Breslin – LCC Placements Manager. A recent UAL-wide Task and Finish Group, which focussed on exchanges and placement students, has produced new guidance regarding student placement activity. Below is a quick summary of this guidance so that you can find out, at a glance, how best to respond to…
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Inclusive Remote Teaching
LCC staff can learn more about ensuring safety, equity and inclusion in our new ways of working in a new session on Inclusive Remote Teaching with Lucy Panesar and Emily Salines on Thursday 16 April 11-12.30 or watch a recorded version via Collaborate playback. The safety, equity and inclusion of…
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Quick reference guide to the library’s key gateways.
LCC Librarians Leo Clary and Terry Thompson have put together a quick reference guide to the library’s key gateways where staff can access e-books, e-journals, streaming media and databases. Leo and Terry have also compiled a list of useful article references from online journals which explore online teaching, learning and…
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