Category: Teaching and Learning
The latest teaching and learning articles
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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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A Student’s Online Learning Survival Guide
Advice for teaching and learning online, from the current students of MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online). The participants on the online Masters in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at LCC are dispersed throughout the world. They have ranged from veteran full time Reuters and AP photographers, to UN photographers based…
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An Online Teaching Survival Guide
This guide is intended to give new online teachers a sense of some of the possibilities and the challenges that this environment brings. Online teaching is not the same as face to face teaching, but it also isn’t radically different. Some things work almost exactly the same in a virtual…
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