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During today’s Social Sciences Curriculum Development Day we held a LEAP workshop. This was prompted by several drivers including the departmental revalidation exercise and new programmes/units scheduled for 2020, the more immediate need to consider how the new assessment policy, 6C, can be embedded ready for 2019 and the impetus for change generated from our… Read more » about LEAP workshop with Social Sciences – 27 Jul 18
The annual digital skills self-assessment (DSSA) for 17-18 closes at the end of July. In August, we will assess the results and use this information to determine how best to use the resources in CEL to support and develop staff. If you have not already done so for this academic year, could I ask if… Read more » about Last chance for participate in this year’s digital skills self-assessment
Quizzes are a great way to engage students, find out where students need further support and provide an effective mechanism to provide feedback and feedforward to students. In addition, with the focus in the new assessment policy, 6C, on more formative assessment for students, quizzes could be a really useful tool. Brightspace has an excellent… Read more » about Learn more about quizzes in Brightspace
The last week has been a busy time for BU’s Learning Excellence Acceleration Programme, LEAP with a drop-in session and workshops for the History Department and Wiltshire College. One member of staff used the drop-in session to work on a unit for which she is the unit lead. This involved setting out the structure of… Read more » about What staff are saying about the curriculum design process – LEAP
We would like to welcome everybody interested in research to our next Open Research day. There will be drinks and cake! When: 3rd of July Where: BG11 – 9am-12pm – presentation from 10am to 11am FG04 – 1pm-4pm – presentation from 2pm to 3pm Staff from RKEO and the library will be on hand to… Read more » about What it means to be Open? – Open Research day, 3rd of July
What is LEAP? LEAP is BU’s process for unit development. It consists of a 2-3 hour workshop, typically undertaken with staff from the same department, during which visualisations of units are created. Each visualisation shows how the learning activities are arranged in the unit, how they link to the ILOs, how many different learning types… Read more » about Come and find out more about LEAP on 4 July, 9-11:30 in F112
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. More information on R is available here. I started using R recently as an alternative to both SPSS and Excel. I am finding that the tasks for which I used SPSS can be carried out in R and the presentation of information is superior… Read more » about Do you use R in your teaching practice?
BU’s unit and programme visualisation process, LEAP, passed a recent milestone with the 100th member of staff attending one of CEL’s sessions. The response from staff has been very positive. You can read about the previous sessions and peruse the feedback here. If you would like to find out more or discuss how the LEAP… Read more » about LEAP at 100
I was able to lead part of a session at yesterday’s CELebrate Conference on the topic of large group teaching. The source of my material on how staff are pushing their boundaries was the data collected by staff who participated in this year’s PREP activity, iVLE. From this rich source of information on how staff… Read more » about CELebrate 2018: Pushing the boundaries on large group teaching
This afternoon we held a LEAP session with 30 colleagues in Journalism, English & Communication (JEC). The session commenced with an introduction to the LEAP process, explaining the layered approach to building up the unit visualisation and how the process can help in blending, unit re-design and vertical and lateral integration to create balanced and… Read more » about LEAP session with JEC
