In 2009, Professor Francis Biley in HSS launched a project to capture the voices and stories of a little heard group, those of elderly, retired nurses. A group of interested academics started to carry out interviews in 2009-10, mainly taking place at the Retired Nurses National Home (RNNH) in Bournemouth. When Fran sadly passed away,… Read more » about Memories of Nursing
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Teach@BU
Obtaining a higher educational teaching qualification is an opportunity for both personal and organisational growth. It enables staff and the organisation to reflect back on their professional practice. Additionally, one of the BU 2018 KPIs is that 100% of academic staff should have either a recognised teaching qualification and/or a Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship status…. Read more » about Teach@BU
Funding opportunities relevant to the discipline of Education
Dear colleagues, find below some funding opportunities relevant to the field of Education: 1. ESRC-DFID: Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme 2016 Pre-call announcement has been released. The focus of the 2016 call will be on the dynamic of accountability, asking questions about how this dynamic interacts with contextual… Read more » about Funding opportunities relevant to the discipline of Education
OCULUS RIFT – BU Research student Đỗ Thị Tuyết Ngân present her research at Service Excellence Conference
post by Đỗ Thị Tuyết Ngân, Mobile Game Developer and Research student at Bournemouth University, UK, and Dr Debbie Holley, Deputy Head, CEL As part of an augmented reality/ virtual world ‘Gallery of Excellence’ at the BU Service Excellence Conference, NU Research student showcased her innovative work. below is her report. Recently, the term “Virtual… Read more » about OCULUS RIFT – BU Research student Đỗ Thị Tuyết Ngân present her research at Service Excellence Conference
INTED 2016 – (Valencia) a conference report
INTED 2016 (see #INTED2016 or @debbieholley1 for twitter feed) Summary: 800 delegates, 70 countries, education and technology as a theme, . In Barcelona in July 2017 full papers only The little girl pictured looking after her families goats is worth less to them than the goat, explained Safeena Husain, the Founder and Executive Director… Read more » about INTED 2016 – (Valencia) a conference report
Virtual Worlds, Drones and Mars landing – INTED2016 conference
Virtual Worlds Virtual worlds are back! Lots of great projects coming out of SMARTLab in Dublin (http://www.ucd.ie/smartlab/ ). They have a large budget for doctoral students and post docs, and nine fully funded places on offer. Interesting work including simulations of living on Mars; some early material used to train up the space station astronauts,… Read more » about Virtual Worlds, Drones and Mars landing – INTED2016 conference
CEL events at Festival of Learning 2016
The Centre for Excellence in Learning will be running two events at the next Festival of Learning 2016. The first event captioned“Education Matters: share your story” will run from 11am – 4pm on Sunday 26 June 2016 and will consist of series of stalls in the community (potentially in the Bournemouth Lower Gardens). As an inclusive, participative and informal event,… Read more » about CEL events at Festival of Learning 2016
CEL Education Research Report – January 2016
The CEL Education Research Report highlights research activities occurring in CEL. It contains updates from members of staff who are doing education related research and producing outputs which can feature under UoA25. Our intention is to continue the production of this periodic report to highlight milestones and celebrate research outputs within CEL. In order to be included… Read more » about CEL Education Research Report – January 2016
TEL toolkit launch on Periscope
Would you like to attend the launch of CEL’s Technology Enhanced Learning Toolkit but cannot make it to Poole House? Join us for a live stream of the event via Periscope @cel_bu on Tuesday 2 February. We will be live streaming from 11am – see you then!
“Capturing the voice of the child: a co-design approach to developing calmer classrooms” research report
On 23 January, Bournemouth University hosted an international conference aiming to improve how students use technology and interact online. Called the Digital Citizenship Summit UK (DigCitSummitUK), it is a unique conference geared towards safe, savvy, and ethical use of social media and tech. “Digital Citizenship” is an umbrella term used to describe the expectations of… Read more » about “Capturing the voice of the child: a co-design approach to developing calmer classrooms” research report
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