Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
An introduction to the Teaching Excellence Framework and the implications for learning at BU by Dr Marcellus Mbah, Dr Jacqueline Priego and Dr Alex Waldrop from yesterday’s CEL AwayDay. Click here to watch the 21 minute video.
A 5 minute update on work within the Employability theme from Anne Quinney from yesterday’s CEL AwayDay. Click here to view the video.
An 8 minute update on work within the Employability theme from Carly Lamont from yesterday’s CEL AwayDay. Click here to view the video.
A 4 minutes update on work within the TEL theme from David Biggins from yesterday’s CEL AwayDay. Click here to view the video.
Maggie Hutchings gave an engaging presentation yesterday to the CEL AwayDay on the topic of partnerships in learning. Click here to watch the video. 8 minutes 14 seconds.
Audience Response Systems such as TurningPoint and Mentimeter are being used across the University in the Faculties for teaching and learning and in Professional Services to capture electronic feedback. We are undertaking a review of audience response systems in the next 3 months to determine an appropriate solution for BU. In order to help us… Read more » about What do you need from an audience response system?
Education for Sustainable Development – what are you doing? The role of universities in contributing to a sustainable future has been quite clear since Agenda 21 – our shared prosperity is at risk if we do not find more sustainable ways of living and working. Universities have an important role to play through research, developing… Read more » about CEL – ESD Case study Competition – submission Date extended to 30th May
Last week saw the commencement of a trial of the virtual classroom application from Blackboard called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual spaces to which you can invite students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PSFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. If you use the Chrome browser to access Collaborate, you can… Read more » about Trialling the virtual classroom
Mentimeter is an internet-based audience response tool that you may have seen in the TEL Toolkit. It is similar to TurningPoint in that questions are prepared in advance and then answered by students in lectures and seminars. Where Mentimeter differs from the current version of TurningPoint that BU uses is in the device used by… Read more » about Seeking 5 testers for Mentimeter
At yesterday’s TEL Strategy Forum, the 12 submissions were reviewed and judged by the Forum members. The winning entry was decided upon but only after a great deal of debate and discussion. An iPad will be awarded to the winner at the forthcoming ceremony. The entries covered many of the tools in the TEL Toolkit… Read more » about Judging of the ‘How do you use yours’ competition
