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Recent articles about teaching and learning at LCC
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Universal Design for Learning: Moodle
This month we continue our Universal Design for Learning series by taking a look at how you can use three Moodle activities. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework that aims to make learning accessible, inclusive, and challenging for all learners. To do this, UDL encourages you to…
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Universal Design for Learning: Using Miro
Accessibility, All Articles, Digital Learning, Innovative Technology, Learning Design, Miro, Spotlight PostWelcome back to LCC’s Digital Learning team’s series on using digital learning platforms to help implement Universal Design for Learning principles in your teaching practice. In this post, our second in the series, we are focusing on using Miro. If you missed our first post on using Padlet, you can…
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Universal Design For Learning: Using Padlet
Welcome to LCC’s Digital Learning team series on using digital learning platforms to promote and embed Universal Design for Learning principles. In this post the focus is on using Padlet. If you don’t have a UAL Padlet account, then please check out our guide to signing up and an introduction…
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AI within UAL Supported Platforms.
AI capabilities are embedded in a number of UAL supported platforms and applications. Here is a guide to those AI tools, which includes: Copilot Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant that functions in a similar manner to ChatGPT. There are two ways you can access co-pilot. You’ll need to login using…
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Learning Design Principles: Spotlight on Universal Design for Learning
Accessibility, All Articles, Digital Learning, Learning Design, Spotlight Post, Teaching and LearningHow can we create a learning environment that challenges and engages everyone? In this blog post, we’re going to take a closer look at the learning design principle of Universal Design for Learning, consider how this might help us in the areas of inclusivity and accessibility, and reflect on possible take-aways…
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UG Course Design Handbook
The UG Course Design Handbook has been completely revised for the 2024-25 academic year. It is a resource offering guidance for courses undergoing reapproval, for new course validations and for those modifying aspects of the course handbook. Part I of the handbook sets out the parameters regarding the structure and…
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Organising your Moodle page: Avoiding the “Scroll of Death”
It’s very easy to upload a large chunks of content into Moodle, without giving too much thought about what it’s like to navigate. Too much content can lead to the “Scroll of Death” and making content overwhelming and difficult to find. In this blog post, we’ll look at ways you…
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Connecting Teams to Panopto
You can now connect your Teams account to Panopto, so that any recordings that you make automatically get copied across. The advantage of this, is that whilst Teams only keeps recordings for six months on Stream, Panopto stores them for 13 months (if the video is not viewed during this…
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Educational Videos: Recap and Overview
Video content is a vital tool for learners and part of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The UDL framework, first defined by David H. Rose, Ed.D. of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in the 1990s, calls for creating a curriculum from the outset…
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Academic Year 24-25: Digital Learning Things to know.
1 – Importing The digital learning team and the Course Support Administrators have completed the importing of content for course and unit sites. Those left blank are either new units or a unit with a change of name. Please contact us if you need support with importing or setting up…
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