Enhancing Teaching & Learning for Digital Lancaster
The Digital Literacy for Academic Purposes Training Suite project worked with staff and students to create an interactive online learning resource to teach students how to use the internet in a smart and responsible way, in particular focusing on finding reliable research sources and highlighting shortcuts to allow more accurate searching. To learn more about […]
The Politics, Philosophy and Religion Department (PPR Department) offer several distance learning modules as part of an on-line MA course. Distance learning students come from diverse backgrounds and differing time-zones which necessitate a flexible learning environment. In the absence of any physical interactions and with time-zone limitations on real-time collaboration, the distance learning modules are […]
Laura Stiefenhöfer has been working with the Linguistics and English Language Department as the Student Digital Ambassador to explore ways to increase interaction and engagement in seminars and lectures through the Personal Response System, TurningPoint. In this video case study, Laura presents an overview of the project and the outcomes, including the essential pedagogical requirements that help […]
Overview Lancaster University Film Production (LUFP) is a student-run society dedicated to the production of short films and providing a platform for students to learn and develop new film-making skills. Our projects incorporate a diverse set of skills, ranging from acting and cinematography to marketing and management. For our project, we created a sitcom web […]
Overview Chemistry undergraduates are not required to have a mathematics qualification above GCSE level, however, large sections of physical chemistry require a familiarity and confidence with maths. While the Chemistry department provides well-structured maths support to support undergraduates, there was an opportunity to develop the of confidence in Maths by taking advantage of the Mathematica […]
This Intercultural Competencies training was developed as part of the University’s first Nine Colleges Global Citizenship Programme by student ambassador Holly Laing and academics Olga Gomez-Cash and Claire Povah. The Global Citizenship programme was held in June 2017 with Lancaster students from 14 nationalities taking part. The two-day programme was designed to support students to develop the […]
Overview This project is part of the Management Schools’ PG LUMSNET DL initiative where over the last 2 years a group of LUMS staff from all the School departments have been involved in an initiative to introduce and learn more about using and integrating digital learning pedagogical ideas, activities and resources into online learning designs […]
by Larissa Webster Finding out staff and student opinions – Questionnaire Despite already having a direction in mind for the implementation of our project – digital aids to the oral/aural part of language-learning in DELC (see our project outline), I decided that it would still be useful, and of interest, to gather student and staff […]
This is the final entry for the “Developing Online Resource for the Family Business Education” project, which has completed in-depth analysis of a number of online learning platforms, course requirements and structures for developing their online resource. In conclusion Choosing the online platform doesn’t end the story of this project. This is just the beginning […]
People and organisations are becoming ever more reliant on technology and the use of technology in the educational environment has increased dramatically. Where once teachers used chalk and blackboards it is now laptops and projectors. Currently in Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) most assessment feedback is done on paper, with students having to come into […]