Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Congratulations to Ashley Spriggs, who won an iPad for her innovative use of the presentation software Prezi. Ashley was awarded the prize by BU’s Vice-Chancellor John Vinney for her winning entry in a competition led by the team behind the TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) Toolkit – BU’s online self-help guide to technology in teaching. The… Read more » about Ashley Spriggs wins the ‘How do you use yours?’ competition
The Fusion project, Students as Trainers, will very shortly be delivering help and support to staff who have requested assistance with digital skills, for example social media, graphics, using PCs, Macs and tablets. If you are interested in participating in this pilot project that ends in July, you can sign up here. We will report… Read more » about Students as trainers – about to start delivering support for staff
For the session on MOOCs next Wednesday, we are planning to use the new Collaborate application to allow people to access the session live from their own computers, wherever you are (so long as you have an internet connection and Chrome!). This is the first time we will try using Collaborate in this way. If… Read more » about Can’t attend the MOOC session in person? Join us online
Source: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/higher-education-white-paper-key-points-glance The government’s higher education White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy, was published on 16 May. Key proposals in the document include: Teaching Creating an Office for Students, merging the Office for Fair Access with the learning and teaching functions of the Higher Education Funding Council for England Retaining the proposed link between… Read more » about Higher education White Paper: key points at a glance
A while ago a group of us in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences were tasked with developing an online Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health to complement BU’s well established MSc Public Health course provision. The aim of this development was to offer three units of the course to be studied online part-time. The… Read more » about PG Cert Public Health Online Course Development Team, HSS
The HEA has recently announced that the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme is open again for nominations; the deadline is July 28, 2016 (see below for details and links). CEL will coordinate a workshop for any interested individuals or teams to help prepare high quality nominations- the expectations are very high but we have two NTFs… Read more » about National Teaching Fellowship – Individual and Team Opportunities
A MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) is a model for delivering online learning material to anyone who wants to sign up for the course. Usually, there is no limit on the number of people who can sign up for a MOOC. Figures suggest that 25 million people have signed up for MOOCs in the last… Read more » about MOOCs – an introduction
It was a real pleasure to attend the PAL award ceremony on Monday evening. The ceremony marks the end or many students’ engagement with PAL before recruitment starts next week for the new cohort. Graham Beards presented the certificates. It was an excellent opportunity to celebrate the commitment and achievement of the PAL leaders and… Read more » about The PAL award ceremony
Each week we tweet internal events and activities as well as news from the UK and global higher education spaces written by key organisations (eg HEA and Jisc) and established educationalists. In the last week, we have tweeted: In BU: The CEL and PCGE away days, developing your digital skills with the help of students,… Read more » about This week on the CEL Twitter feed
Professor Gail Thomas opened yesterday’s CEL AwayDay with a review of the work on CEL and the leading role and contribution made to Teaching and Learning at BU. Click here to watch the video.
