Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Learning Technologists will be running our online drop-in sessions with a reduced timetable during December. Bring your Brightspace and TEL-related questions and we will do our best to answer them. The sessions are run via Zoom so simply click on the link in the table below between 11.00-11.30am on the day to join. Or you… Read more » about LT support in December
LinkedIn Learning’s Annual Academic seminar will be running on Wednesday 17 November 13:00-14:00. During the seminar you will hear from LinkedIn Learning’s senior leadership on the future of Higher Education as well as other University partners exploring how they’ve successfully embedded LinkedIn Learning into staff development, academic delivery and supporting students in discovering the skills needed… Read more » about Linkedin Learning Annual Academic Seminar – 17 November 2021
During November, FLIE will be running a series of workshops focusing on Unit Analytics and Intelligent Agents. In the workshops, we will demonstrate where you can find analytics reporting within your Brightspace units and some of the benefits of utilising these statistics to better understand student engagement with learning materials. We’ll also look at how… Read more » about Unit Analytics and Intelligent Agents
A reminder of our two FLIE workshops running online next week. Teaching Large Cohorts – Wednesday 27 October We are usually so busy that the experience of teaching and learning large cohorts is taken as a part of the job. However, the quality of the student experience, as well as our sense of worth and… Read more » about FLIE workshops next week
Have you registered for the BU Staff Employability conference yet? Universities are key to ensuring their graduates are equipped with the experiences, skills, and attributes to allow them to obtain employment in their chosen fields, and indeed, to adapt and change with the labour market in the future. The BU Staff Employability Conference 2021, part… Read more » about BU Staff Employability Conference – 26 October 2021
As part of our Brightspace online training we’ve recently added a module for new starters. This module is aimed at new teaching staff to help them get familiar with navigating Brightspace and to understand some of the basics, including: where to go for help and support the different types of units the different content experiences… Read more » about Introduction to Brightspace for new starters
What is FLIEflix? Most of us are now quite familiar with accessing boxsets on Netflix and other similar platforms. Taking this concept, we have created boxsets of some of the most popular support being offered by the Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence (FLIE). These boxsets each have a theme, and the episodes within… Read more » about Welcome to FLIEflix
A new paper exploring HE staff’s attitudes and expectations about their role in induction activities has been published by Dr Camila Devis-Rozental and Susanne Clarke in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education and is available via open access. The paper which sought the views of 58 participants, both academic and professional members of… Read more » about HE staff’s attitudes and expectations about their role in induction activities
“Learning technologists are people who are actively involved in managing, researching, supporting or enabling learning with the use of learning technology” – The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) The Learning Technologists at BU are based in the Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence (FLIE). There is a Faculty Learning Technologist dedicated to each of… Read more » about What is a Learning Technologist?
As the new semester gets into full swing, we will be continuing to offer workshops for staff around some of our key TEL tools with suggested pedagogical approaches. All workshops will be delivered in a hybrid fashion, so you can join us in the room or online via Zoom – whatever suits you best. You… Read more » about FLIE Workshop resources
