Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
The 11th annual Mike Warne Lecture sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and organised by students from the BA (Hons) Marketing Communications programme was held on 1st March 2017 in the Fusion building. This year’s theme was Immersive Technology – The Future of Marketing, introduced by Chris Daly – Chief Executive of CIM,… Read more » about 11th annual Mike Warne Lecture at BU – 1 Mar 17
This workshop is being advertised on the Research Blog.
This blog is asking for information from anyone who has tried the concept of Working out Loud and can help me learn more about this. I realise from the research into the concept that it begins with harnessing your networks and generously sharing and learning from each other. Watching the Ted Talks the benefits to… Read more » about Working Out Loud – a 21st Century Skill
This afternoon we held the first of the sessions on the PG Diploma in TEL. The session was attended by 11 members of staff from across the faculties and professional services. The session began by explaining the structure and content of this module which is being offered as CPD to staff ahead of its validation. … Read more » about PG Diploma CPD unit in TEL commences
Xerte is an elearning development environment that has been used in BU for some time. If you have knowledge of using Xerte, could you please contact Caspian Dugdale of BU please? Caspian is seeking information on this development environment.
Tim Galling has been working on the help and support available to staff using the audio, video and presentation recording application, Panopto. The expanded guidance includes new notes on usage and screen shots of how Panopto looks while you are recording and when viewing the material. The information available about Panopto is now extensive and… Read more » about Panopto support materials expanded
Sonya Harvey, a digital innovator and Student Development Award Co-ordinator, has created an excellent presentation to introduce the TEL Toolkit. Click here to view the presentation. In addition to being a structured and comprehensive introduction to the TEL Toolkit, the presentation is also a very good example of how Prezi can be used to create… Read more » about An introduction to the TEL Toolkit using Prezi
LinkedIn is used by employers across world to identify the best future employees and is an easy way for students to demonstrate all they have done in addition to their core degree study that makes them highly employable. These videos on using LinkedIn and self-quiz to identify good areas for up-skilling have been co-created by… Read more » about Making more use of LinkedIn
From an article in The Telegraph yesterday on the potential for students to face fines or a criminal record for using essay mills. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/21/university-students-could-fined-handedcriminal-records-plagiarised/
Technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools have a wide-ranging influence on our students be it via the VLE, recorded lectures, audience response systems or using WePresent to project from their own devices. CEL is seeking to collate videos of students’ experience of using any of our TEL tools. These videos will be added to the TEL… Read more » about Can you help to support the TEL Toolkit?
