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Staff Training @ Homerton University Hospital: How to Identify and Support Students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs)

Welcome to Homerton Hospital

We are Neil Goldwasser and Emma Allsopp, Dyslexia Support Tutors within Learning Success @ LEaD. We recently visited Homerton University Hospital, in response to a training request from the Nursing Education Facilitator. The attendees were mentors for student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. Our aims were to develop their awareness and strategies in order…Continue Reading Staff Training @ Homerton University Hospital: How to Identify and Support Students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs)

Using Moodle’s lesson activity

The Lesson activity in Moodle is not widely used but has a lot of potential for creating engaging learning content such as instructional exercises and branching scenarios. Lesson allows you to present your content as a series of web pages to students. These pages can contain text, images and video. Students can follow a linear…Continue Reading Using Moodle’s lesson activity

Introducing the Multimedia theme of LEaD

At City we are seeing more and more people using multimedia to create revision presentations, online lectures for use in approaches such as the flipped classroom, demonstrations of clinical or experimental procedures, and simulations of professional practice. We’ve seen staff present their work at events such as the Learning at City conference, Health’s Got Talent,…Continue Reading Introducing the Multimedia theme of LEaD