The latest teaching and learning articles
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 PowerPoint but deliberately didn’t have […]
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 […]
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 (NUS & Universities UK, 2019). LCC has been following […]
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 student engagement. Library Search – https://libsearch.arts.ac.uk/ Library […]
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 […]