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Recent articles about teaching and learning at LCC
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Digital Learning Champions: How online lectures can be made more engaging.
Kanika Kalra What did I do Having completed my undergraduate education pre-pandemic, my MA at LCC is the first time I experienced online lectures. I had attended endless work meetings online during the pandemic, but this was the first time I experienced a virtual lecture environment and noticed that almost…
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Digital Learning Champion: AI’s Impact student learning, teaching, and assessment in Arts and Design higher education
Slavi Kaloferov What is your Project? My fascination with cutting-edge technology, combined with my love for the university environment and my passion and specialization in (improving) user experiences, drew me towards the role of Digital Learning Champion. During conversations with my mentor, Lee Leewis, the concept of exploring ChatGPT in…
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Digital Learning Champion: Improve collaboration with students across different across courses in LCC
Hazel Yeo What is your Project? I was inspired to start this project as whenever I walk around LCC, there are many flyers on the bulletin board, of students asking for collaboration for their projects. This is a digital learning project where I am trying to use online learning to…
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LCC Teaching and Learning Resources
This is just a reminder to everyone that you can find resources to support teaching and learning on the LCC Teaching Hub. These resources include: LCC Tutor Handbook LCC Staff Guide to: Unit Guides LCC Staff Gide to: Unit Assignments and Project Briefs Student Guide to Assessment. We will shortly…
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Create accessible documents using Apple Pages and Keynote.
What is digital accessibility? Digital accessibility means removing barriers to access and understand digital documents, activities and platforms by people who have a range of neuro-divergent needs and learning disabilities. For example, people with dyslexia often rely on clear headings, high contrast colours, and uncluttered backgrounds to help them navigate…
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Different ways to record your presentations
You’ve completed your PowerPoint, you’ve run your accessibility checks, and you’re about to save and upload it to Moodle, but have you considered saving it as a video? Educational videos have been shown to increase retention and engagement, particularly instructional videos. PowerPoint has some powerful options to add video and…
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UAL / LCC Staff Development Calendar
The central UAL Staff Development Team have created a series of sessions that can support your personal and professional development. For the full calendar please follow the link. https://canvas.arts.ac.uk/sites/explore/SitePage/58570/staff-development-event-list-page The next LCC staff development weeks will run from the 20th to the 31st of March and we hope to advertise…
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Achieve a 90% accessibility score this term
LCC has set an ambitious target of 90% accessibility for all it’s Moodle sites. The score is gathered by Ally, a plug-in that assesses the accessibility of documents, text, images, and videos on Moodle. The college’s goal is to reach this 90% before the end of the spring term. The…
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Celebrate our colleagues.
Tomorrow at Chelsea Banqueting Hall (4.30 – 6.30) the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange will be welcoming colleagues to an event celebrating those who are recent recipients of AFHEA, FHEA and SFHEA fellowships, and PG Cert and MA graduates. This is the first of an annual event to to celebrate…
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Accessibility: The Moodle Text Editor (Atto)
Ally, UAL’s digital accessibility checker, automatically checks your documents on Moodle for accessibility improvements, but did you know it also checks the text on your Moodle page? Approximately 30% of all accessibility issues on LCC Moodle sites are caused by the text we add through Moodle’s text editor tool, Atto…
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