TEL champion, Ashley Spriggs, explains how she used Prezi in her teaching practice in this short, 2 minute video.
One staff member’s experience of Prezi
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Self-assessing your digital skills
It has almost been a year since the Digital Skills Self-Assessment was launched. To date, some 60% of academic staff have completed the questionnaire. For academic staff, completing the questionnaire gives you valuable insights into your range of skills and also identifies areas where you may want to develop in the future. From a CEL… Read more » about Self-assessing your digital skills
Try something different in 2017
Over the last semester, CEL has been supporting staff across the university to ‘try something different‘ to enhance their teaching and professional practice. One of the initiatives within this campaign is a BU-wide scheme called ‘iInnovate‘ where academic staff are encouraged to adopt one new innovation in their teaching. With the agreement of all Faculties,… Read more » about Try something different in 2017
Higher Education Academy Update – 10 January 2017
HEA student experience and engagement surveys 2017 We currently have more than one hundred confirmed participants in the postgraduate PTES and PRES surveys and a 60% increase in participants in the undergraduate UKES. If you want to find out more about participation and the support we can offer you in running the surveys, please get… Read more » about Higher Education Academy Update – 10 January 2017
Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in HE – PESTLHE – JOURNAL OUT NOW – January 2017
Apologies for cross posting – but the excellent PESTLHE journal now out: ===== This year we have two special issues coming out – one on Threshold Concepts and one from the ELSTIS16 Conference. We will have two standard issues in May 2017 and November 2017. Vol 12, No 1 (2017) Table of Contents Editorial January… Read more » about Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in HE – PESTLHE – JOURNAL OUT NOW – January 2017
Want to try a ‘mini’ online course? Try the SEDA ‘Online Introduction to Educational Change’
Colleagues, this may be of interest to some…Debbie ============== Dear SEDA Colleagues Bookings are now open for Online Introduction to Educational Change. This 4-week online workshop will run from 20th February until 17th March 2017. This workshop has recently been re-designed to follow an ‘inquiry-based learning’ approach. Using the SEDA Values as a guiding framework,… Read more » about Want to try a ‘mini’ online course? Try the SEDA ‘Online Introduction to Educational Change’
Prof Mick Healey – links to his fabulous resources and ‘students as partners’ conference in May
Apologies for cross-posting For details on the first International Summer Institute on ‘Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education’ in May 2016 see: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute/. The next Summer Institute will be held from 8-11 May, 2017 For four free publications each 20-40,000 words see: (2013) Developing and enhancing undergraduate final-year projects and dissertations… Read more » about Prof Mick Healey – links to his fabulous resources and ‘students as partners’ conference in May
Leading Innovation Seminars: Professor John Traxler talks on Tuesday 24th January
What is the nature of the innovation required from education for our mobile and connected society? First in the ‘Leading Innovation’ series of seminars, Professor John Traxler, Professor of Digital Learning at the University of Wolverhampton, will visit BU on Tuesday 24 January to present ‘What is the nature of the innovation required from education for… Read more » about Leading Innovation Seminars: Professor John Traxler talks on Tuesday 24th January
Erasmus Funds to support staff mobility
Erasmus staff mobility – including training and teaching – brings huge value to BU and our students, whilst offering invaluable personal career experience. We are pleased to announce that staff can apply for funds to support these activities through Erasmus under the revised Staff Mobility scheme. Erasmus funds are a great way to build networks… Read more » about Erasmus Funds to support staff mobility
HE Policy update w/e 13th January 2017
HE and Research Bill – the Bill was debated in the House of Lords on Monday and Wednesday with a lively debate on both days. Monday’s was marginally more exciting because the House voted on one amendment (248 to 221) and the government was defeated, but this is likely to turn out to have been… Read more » about HE Policy update w/e 13th January 2017
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