Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
The love of Lego® is reaching far and wide at BU. Every Lego® Serious Play® session is crafted to meet session aims, objectives and intended learning outcomes with reflective questions integrated to get the maximum out of the time windows afforded within the timetabled slots. Working with so many areas across BU is fascinating; from… Read more » about Serious Play, Serious Fun: Speaking Bricks
If you are thinking about applying for Advance HE Fellowship in the Associate Fellow, Fellow or Senior Fellow categories, then I’m running workshops this week to help you with your application. Thursday 30th March @ 12:00 in FG04– this is a session for Staff. Thursday 30th March @ 13:00 in FG04 – this is a… Read more » about Applying for Advance HE Fellowship
Did you know HSS have a Faculty Simulation Interest group? Led by Dr Ursula Rolfe and reporting into the Executive team, they work to share and enhance best practice, and contribute to the faculty Simulation Strategy. Meetings alternate between online and face-to-face, and in the February meeting Dr Vikram Mohan shared his initial overview of… Read more » about HSS Faculty SIM meeting: HOLOLENS
We had a brilliant series of psychological testing activities around personality traits and team roles during seminars last week with L4 students on the Organisational Behaviour and Responsible Management unit. Students were asked to assess their personality traits using Big Five Personality Model and Belbin Team roles. These tests allowed them to reflect on their… Read more » about Psychological tests week for BABAM Level 4 OBRM students
Mentimeter have recently added this online course to their Mentimeter Academy. This self-paced course looks at how you can foster a sense of belonging among your students, by guiding you through the theory of inclusive teaching with practical strategies. Topics covered include: Sense of belonging Fighting biases Transformative reflection The course includes some theory with… Read more » about Inclusive teaching: strategies for engaging all students
Have you used the Intelligent Agent tool in Brightspace? Intelligent Agents in Brightspace can assist you by sending an automated email monitoring/tracking when certain criteria are met in your unit, such as: a) when a student hasn’t logged into your unit for x amount of time b) when a student hasn’t submitted an assignment or… Read more » about Brightspace Intelligent Agents – lunchtime drop-in session
Overview Zoom is BU’s recommended platform for online delivery of live lectures, seminar sessions and meetings, available within all Brightspace units from the Communication menu. Zoom provides a number of benefits including a 300 participant limit, up to 50 breakout rooms, unlimited session lengths and the ability to stream video to your attendees. Any recordings… Read more » about Finding Zoom recordings scheduled outside of Brightspace
Dear colleagues, We’re currently taking applications for our next PAL Placement Student – a 13-month placement opportunity working with the Central PAL Team.The details are below including benefits, testimonials from our previous PAL Placement Students and more info on the role including job description, main responsibilities and how to apply. It would be great if… Read more » about PAL Placement Student opportunity – please share!
Next Monday we’re continuing with the webinar series on AcademicIntegrity after a long pause due to the industrial strike action. Led by Lynn Cliplef, Mitchell Hengen, Caitlin Munn and Josh Seeland, the talk will offer an engaging insight into working examples of how to build a culture of Academic Integrity at your institution. This is… Read more » about Slow & Steady: Establishing an Institutional Culture of Academic Integrity
Urgent maintenance needs to be completed for the JISC Learning Analytics service on Wednesday 08/03/23 from 16:30 to 16:55. During this time the service will be unavailable, this will impact the following activities: Access to the platform to view reports Access to generate the Checkin code to take attendance Student attendance Checkin The timing of this… Read more » about JISC Learning Analytics – System unavailable Wednesday 8 March 16:30-16:55
