Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
The Centre for Excellence in Learning is pleased to invite applications for its Learning and Teaching Fellowships. The fellowships are for academics who are using BU’s fusion framework to deliver an excellent learning experience and want to do more. Successful applicants will receive £2000 and protected time to dedicate to pedagogic research, developing their innovative practice and sharing examples of best… Read more » about CEL Learning and Teaching Fellowships: Invitation for applications
The Centre for Excellence in Learning is pleased to invite applications for its Innovation Awards. These awards are for teams or individuals who have a creative idea for enhancing the student experience within their curriculum. Proposals should link to one of the following CEL themes: Technology enhanced learning; Employability, work based learning and professional practice; Assessment… Read more » about CEL Innovation Awards – invitation for application and briefing dates
Thanks to Emma Banbury-Whitton; apologies for cross posting The outcome of Lord Stern’s independent review of the REF has been published. You can view the report here. The recommendations from the report are as follows. 1. All research active staff should be returned in the REF (and allocated to a unit of assessment). 2. Outputs should be… Read more » about Lord Stern’s REF Review- the outcome
Colleagues, A fantastic resource! We’ve put together a virtual special issue, guest edited by Paul Ashwin and Didi Griffioen, consisting of a selection of articles related to ‘The scholarship of learning, teaching and organizing in higher education’ which is the central theme of the Higher Education Conference 2016. Articles include: The use… Read more » about ‘The scholarship of learning, teaching and organizing in higher education’
Colleagues, some of you will remember Pete’s amazing keynote for us at CELebrate 2016. ==== LSE has been awarded with the Campus Technology Teaching and Innovation Award (see pg30) for their innovative work on the Constitution UK project which ran in early 2015. Constitution UK was a collaborative project that aimed to crowdsource and hack the UK constitution within… Read more » about Peter Bryants’ team win technology award
Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce that delegate registration is now open for the Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Conference for 2016. Please pass on to non-members of the list. We particularly welcome submissions from students (students pay only a delegate deposit fee- which is refundable on attending). To register please see… Read more » about Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Conference – now open for delegate booking
Colleagues – apologies for cross posting =================== The University of Southampton is very pleased to welcome Professor David Boud of Deakin University, Australia, who will be delivering a keynote on ‘Ensuring assessment has a high impact on learning‘ on Wednesday 7 September, 12.30-13.20. We would be delighted if colleagues involved with learning and teaching within your university would like… Read more » about Invitation: Professor David Boud of Deakin University, Australia, keynote on ‘Ensuring assessment has a high impact on learning’ on Wednesday 7 September, 12.30-13.20.
Apologies for cross-posting Dear Colleagues, I’m delighted to announce that volume 10(1) of the Journal of Information Literacy is now available at jil.lboro.ac.uk. Please find the table of contents below. It has been a great pleasure to work on this issue, and I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I… Read more » about volume 10(1) of the Journal of Information Literacy
LearnHigher Prize Draw opportunity Learnhigher is the repository of learning development resources submitted by those involved in supporting student learning in HE. Topics address a wide variety of areas connected with supporting the student learning journey from time management to critical writing. The site can be viewed at : http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/ Learnhigher always welcomes the… Read more » about Submit your online resources and get entered for a prize draw.
The sigma Network for Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics Support is ending the year with a bang! Four FREE events are being held up and down the country in the coming weeks, which should be of interest to people working in HE math and statistics support, or who have a general interest in the student-centred teaching and… Read more » about Interested in Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics? join the SIGMA network or go to an event….
