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Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Debbie Holley, Professor of Learning Innovation, with her ERASMUS partners Dr Mike Hobbs (Anglia Ruskin University) and Prof Enrico Ciavolino (University of Salento), pictured left to right above, delivered a seminar to Doctoral and Masters students at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. The students mapped their own digital footprints and individual communication channels…. Read more » about Create, Manage and Curate: managing your digital real estate From Italy
Apologies for cross posting, and many thanks to Laura Hollinshead for sharing ==== I thought I would share some resources we have created with University of Derby students about Digital Capabilities. Along with an overview video there are a further 6 quick videos, animated by students to cover the elements within the Jisc framework. What… Read more » about Co-creation- University of Derby students and Digital Capabilities
This may interest some staff – to read report you need to join their list and go to the reports section.’ www.juniperresearch.com. ==== New Research – Augmented & Mixed Reality: Innovation, Disruption & Future Prospects 2018-2022 Juniper Research’s new Augmented & Mixed Reality research delivers pivotal use cases, trend analysis and competitive intelligence on this high growth sector…. Read more » about New Research – Augmented & Mixed Reality: Innovation, Disruption & Future Prospects 2018-2022
Apologies for cross posting, but may of interest to us ‘Xerte’ fans: Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK> wrote: Dear all, The Xerte team and project are very pleased to announce the official release of Xerte Online Toolkits version 3.6 available from http://xerte.org.uk. A huge amount of work has gone into this latest release and there are many… Read more » about Xerte Online Toolkits version 3.6 now released
Apologies for cross posting, but a TEF Kindle bargain at 99p! ==from the National Teaching Fellow list==== Dear All, Just wanted to alert you to a book we’ve published : Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Lessons from the TEF. Olwyn and I have worked on this since last July and have analysed about half… Read more » about New Resource from the NTF: Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Lessons from the TEF.
Our sabbatical officers this year (as every year!) have been as amazing. The Faculty of Media and Communications (FMC) has a ‘Heros’ award for staff who make a significant difference, and amongst all of their other activities, our sabbatical students found time to arrange an equality and diversity afternoon. The photo shows them being awarded… Read more » about Our BU sabbatical officers are Faculty of Media and Communications ‘HEROs’
Colleagues, apologies for cross posting, some may be interested in contributing to/attending this event ==== Dear LDHEN, Are you an enthusiast for social media in a learning development context? The sigma Network is hosting an event “Using Social Media . . .” on 27th June in Staffordshire. http://www.sigma-network.ac.uk/using-social-media-for-maths-and-statistics-support-27th-june-2018/ Although the focus is on using social media for maths and… Read more » about Invitation to share maths/stats case studies/ attend a social media event
Panel member Professor Debbie Holley (@debbieholley1) reports on the BU Students Union ‘How to thrive at university and beyond’ event! Details:I was invited to join the panel for an afternoon of inspirational talks from leading industry speakers: 14:00 – Welcome and introduction on behalf of SUBU, Ebony Harding, SU VP Community 14:10 – Avoiding the imposter syndrome by… Read more » about BU Students Union ‘How to thrive at university and beyond’ event!
Juniper is a research company focussing on high-end tech – worth following and tracking their ‘reports’ which summarise contents of full research (full research is only available commercially) ==== Overview Juniper’s Smart Wearables research provides an end-to-end analysis of the trends and ecosystem developments impacting this innovative segment. The research charts key macro trends, player strategies, and is… Read more » about new Research Report on Smart Wearables 2018-20122
At the ALDinHE Conference the affordances of Google’s Teachable Machine were explored in a workshop co-run by Dr Mike Hobbs (Anglia Ruskin University) and Professor Debbie Holley (Bournemouth University) In their future careers students will increasingly encounter machine-learning systems, so it is appropriate to develop a deeper understanding to demystify this technology as the new… Read more » about ALDinHE: report on the ‘teachable machine’ workshop
