Category: Teaching and Learning
The latest teaching and learning articles
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Changemaking through 2020-21
Since the last Changemakers update, our student and graduate Changemakers have been busy codeveloping curricula and promoting awareness of inclusive, anti-racist and decolonial practices across LCC and beyond. Scroll down for more details… In the past academic year, despite the many unexpected setbacks of the pandemic, LCC’s Changemakers have contributed…
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Into the Wild: Climate Action and the Curriculum events programme
Monday 22 February – Friday 26 February 2021 London College of Communication’s Climate Action Group will be hosting Into the Wild: Climate Action and the Curriculum. The week will include talks, workshops and performances. Conversations and debates will consider : How can we work with our students to support them…
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Miro: a new model for studio crits
Constraints are often the last thing you want in a creative project, but they can also inspire us to explore new practices and test our ingenuity. Unable to run their studio crits in person this past year, BA User Experience Design (UXD) decided to try something different. Using Miro, an…
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Pass/Fail Assessment – Implications for Practice
There will be a discussion on pass / fail assessment and implication for practice on the 11th November from 1-1.50 pm. The session will be led by Vikki Hill and Neil Currant from the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange. This session is aimed at UAL colleagues to highlight key considerations…
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Applications open for the Pg Cert / MA in Academic Practice
UAL staff can now apply for a place on the Academic Practice courses PgCert / MA and Standalone units that commence in January 2021. The application deadline is 5pm on Friday 25 September 2020, although we are advising people to apply as soon as possible, as earlier applicants are more…
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Re-navigating the digital doldrums?
Tamed Teams, collaborating with Blackboard brilliantly, Moodle does more than you thought possible?!, but are you heading for the digital doldrums? The initial excitement, trepidation, dubiousness has been managed and steered away from the immediate shock wave and now are you heading to a place where the tech works, mostly,…
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PhD in Isolation: Write Here, Write Now.
Jane Madsen and Helena Walsh (LCC Academic Support) share their reflections on a recent writing away day for PhD students. The day was based on the idea of Mapping, Boundaries, Limits. We started with asking how everyone was going with establishing boundaries while working at home in isolation. We used a…
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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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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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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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