Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
We have all heard the term dementia, but what does it feel like? This is a very complex question, and almost certainly a complex answer. This week, on an initiative led by Dr Michele Board, filming began on an innovative project to increase education and awareness of what it might feel like to have dementia… Read more » about Creating a virtual reality educational film for dementia
I’m delighted to confirm that the following colleagues have recently achieved fellowship from Advance HE after applying through TeachBU: Associate Fellow: Lucky Otame (BUBS), Michael-Sam Vidza (FST) & Rejoice Chipuriro (FHSS) Fellow: Abier Hamidi (FMC), Andrew Morris (FHSS), Elpida Fragkouli (FST), Louise Burgess (FHSS) & Marc Vander Linden (FST) Senior Fellow: Arathy John (FHSS), Alison… Read more » about TeachBU Update – Colleagues Achieving HEA Fellowship
The following FLIE events are now available to book. Workshops will be hybrid so you can choose to attend online or in person. Use the links in the table to book your place via Eventbrite. Theme Date and Time Content Preparing for Artificial Intelligence in Assessment and Feedback design: Revert, outrun, or embrace 12th… Read more » about AI and Assessment and Feedback – upcoming workshops
We’ve been talking to colleagues at BU who are using digital tools in their teaching and have put together some updated guidance to share their good practice. In this blog, we’re focusing on Brightspace Checklists. Our Good Practice guide to using Checklists includes top tips from us on how to set one up in your… Read more » about TEL Good Practice Guides – Checklists
We are delighted to accept presentation abstracts from BU academic and professional service staff for this year’s Fusion Learning Conference which is being held on 5th July 2023. The core themes for this year’s conference are: Student engagement and success: evaluating pedagogical practices and resources as conduits to enhancing student learning. Digital Transformation to enhance student learning: embedding digital… Read more » about Don’t forget to submit your abstract for the Fusion Learning Conference
Learning Technologists from the FLIE team recently ran a session with students in BUBS looking at how immersive technologies are being used with tourism. Immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality are already being used in the industry to create interactive, engaging experiences which elicit emotional responses. We looked at some of the opportunities… Read more » about Immersive technology and tourism
MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB (a programming and numeric computing platform) and Simulink (a block diagram environment used to design and simulate before moving to hardware), are running two webinars to introduce their MATLAB Grader tool. The webinars will demonstrate how to create interactive MATLAB course problems, automatically grade student work, provide immediate customized feedback,… Read more » about MATLAB Grader – upcoming webinars
We’ve been talking to colleagues at BU who are using digital tools in their teaching and have put together some updated guidance to share their good practice. In this blog, we’re focusing on Intelligent Agents. Our Good Practice guide to using Intelligent Agents includes a list of things to consider before setting up Intelligent Agents… Read more » about TEL Good Practice Guides – Intelligent Agents
As part of their commitment to enabling excellence and continuing improving the student experience, the Service Excellence Team at BU has organised four online Humanising Education workshops. They have invited academics from various universities to share their experience and knowledge of embedding a humanised practice with you: Workshop Presenter Date Time Humanising teaching one conversation… Read more » about Attend Our Humanising Education Workshops
We have had an ongoing issue where Turnitin assignment marks are not being displayed on the assignment pages in Brightspace that list student submissions and instead it just shows ‘refreshing…’ This makes it difficult to keep track of what has been marked and what marks have been awarded prior to mark release. This has been raised… Read more » about Viewing ‘Draft’ assignment marks on Brightspace
