The latest digital learning articles
We have a new digital learning platform – Panopto – making it easier to create audio, video &/or screen recordings and publish them to your Moodle sites. Video recordings are going to play an important role in facilitating blended learning this term. In particular: Pre-recording short presentations / lectures / summaries / explanations as part […]
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, but does the pedagogy? You […]
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 add Collaborate rooms to your […]
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 and Nicholas at the end […]
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 in Darfur, Sudan, to an […]
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 classroom as in a physical […]