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An interesting list of reasons from The Guardian (15 May 2014) of the 10 reasons why face-to-face lectures just don’t work: 1. Babylonian hour We only have hours because of the Babylonian base-60 number system, which first appeared around 3100 BC. But it has nothing to do with the psychology of learning. 2. Passive observers… Read more » about 10 reasons why lectures do not work
1) Global Teaching Excellence Awards The Higher Education Academy has announced its intention to launch the Global Teaching Excellence Awards, a new global award that is exclusively focused on identifying and recognising higher education institutions that are pursuing world-class teaching and learning strategies. Speaking at the Higher Education Academy’s National Teaching Fellowship Awards ceremony on… Read more » about HEA Partnership monthly update
Enhance and develop your own Practice; gain a deeper understanding of Pedagogic Principles; share and develop your knowledge and skills with the CEL CPD opportunities Available for all BU staff, take a series of one or half day workshops (spread out over the semester) to extend your own CPD/ build your promotion profile/ move towards… Read more » about Pedagogic CPD opportunities for BU staff – beginning March 2017
CEL are hosting two TEL Toolkit sessions on 14 & 15 Feb. The purpose of these sessions is to explore how you can use the Toolkit in your teaching practice. There is no set agenda. Instead we respond to what tutors need and explore the options. That said, we try to cover 6-7 tools per… Read more » about TEL Toolkit sessions on 14 & 15 Feb 17
A new section of the IT Services website has recently been developed, which contains information to help staff gain the most from BU’s audio-visual equipment. This includes: ‘Cheat sheet’ user guides for AV setups in Meeting Rooms, Seminar Rooms, Lecture Theatres and Agile/Synergy Spaces User guides for audio-visual hardware (e.g. Document Cameras, Wireless Presentation devices… Read more » about Are you getting the most from our AV equipment?
Today marks the day one year ago when we launched the TEL Toolkit. In the past year, the toolkit has been visited over 6,000 times with more than 23,000 pages viewed. We continue to enhance and develop the TEL Toolkit with new guides, videos and tools so it you have not visited for a while,… Read more » about TEL Toolkit 1st birthday
A virtual classroom is an online environment where staff and students can come together and share audio, video, documents and applications. One of the major benefits is that the session can be recorded and then made available to participants for example through the VLE. It is not only for staff and students but can be… Read more » about Dipping your toe into the virtual classroom
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 What do our students think of TEL?
[From Susanne Clarke, Head of Service Excellence] Paul McGee (The Sumo Guy), who will be at the Service Excellence conference this year, ran an inspiring leadership seminar for Professional Service Staff undertaking new leadership roles in faculties last week – and what a brilliant seminar. One story Paul shared that I found really inspiring focuses… Read more » about Pep talk – reflections on excellence, leadership, values and partnership
The annual Service Excellence conference is being held on 20 April 2017. Free tickets are now available to book. The past years’ conferences have been fantastic and this year is shaping up to be even more awesome. Whether you are academic staff or professional services, there is lots on offer at the Service Excellence conference…. Read more » about Book your tickets for Service Excellence – 20 April 2017
