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Aims of Future The general aim of the wider project is to provide a platform for exploring, discussing and sharing effective practice and to provide free tools and resources to support you and your colleagues including the opportunity to participate and contribute directly as part of a more formal cohort of participants. Link to… Read more » about Future Teacher 3.0 talks and archive – monthly webinar series
Colleagues, Please do share.. === We are delighted to let you know that the 5th issue of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) is available from https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/issue/view/349 In this issue we have a special section dedicated to Students as Partners in the Third Space. This consists of 6 articles and an editorial. At 200pp Issue 3.1 is our largest to… Read more » about International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) 5th issue now available!
Professor Debbie Holley and Dr. Ann Luce recently visited University of Salento, in Lecce, in the Puglia region of Italy as part of the BU ERASMUS exchange programme. This is a follow on from a pedagogy/ technology and statistical exchange that started a number of years ago with Prof. Holley’s previous institution. A part of… Read more » about Podcasts, Creativity and Collaboration with University of Salento, Italy
The sigma Network is delighted to announce a FREE event for anyone with an interest in mathematics and statistics support in Higher Education: Online Maths Support for Remote Learners Wednesday 3rd July 2019, 10.00am – 4.00pm Staffordshire University The scene will be set with presentations from Dr Sue Pawley and Dr Tim Lowe from the Open University, who… Read more » about Free online webinar: Online Maths Support for Remote Learners Wednesday 3rd July 2019, 10.00am – 4.00pm
International Women’s Day Networking Event Celebrating International Women’s day – a WAN and CEL co-production! International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights, and has it origins from 1910 International Socialist Women’s Conference who suggested a Women’s day to be held annually. Here… Read more » about International Women’s Day Networking Event: a CEL and Women’s Academic Network co-production
This report is split into two sections. The first section focuses on summarising the major strategic challenges the sector is facing, analysing the current state of the most relevant emerging technologies and then mapping where the emerging technologies could help with the strategic challenges. The second section consists of a horizon scan of mental health and wellbeing. In… Read more » about JISC – Horizons report – emerging technologies and the mental health challenge
What is Padlet? Padlet is a web-based whiteboard or bulletin board where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share text, images, video and links in a secure online location. Padlet allows users to create a hidden wall with a custom URL, that you can then embed into Brightspace if you want to, and as the… Read more » about Have you tried Padlet yet? Rebecca Hindley
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2019, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and the BU Women’s Academic Network co-produced a ‘Women in technology’ and ‘Uncelebrated Women’ event, offered to staff and students across BU. The first workshop, Coding and Learning was led by the inspirational Dr Carina Buckley, Instructional Design Manager at Solent Learning… Read more » about Women in Tech: International Women’s Day at BU
Dr Mike Hobbs, Visiting Researcher in CEL and an expert in data, AI and AR/VR shares the first is series of short postings: These days, if we are involved in research, policy or just trying to find evidence for good practice we need data science. https://www.datasciencecentral.com Data Science Central is a site… Read more » about Data Science: a short briefing from Dr Mike Hobbs, Visiting Researcher in CEL
Please note and share this excellent news widely… ++++ Greetings Open Education Friends: Good news! Creative Commons worked with the Cleveland Museum of Art to dedicate 30,000 high resolution images into the public domain using CC0. Site: http://www.clevelandart.org/open-access Article: https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/01/fe82a74cbf1054/cleveland-museum-of-art-launches-nextgeneration-open-access-to-artworks-and-data-online-.html Blog: https://creativecommons.org/2019/01/23/cleveland-museum/ Tweets: https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1088079123963088896 https://twitter.com/ClevelandArt/status/1088081616059228161 Enjoy, Cable — Cable Green, PhD Director of Open Education… Read more » about Open Education: sharing 30,000 high resolution images using CCO…
