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Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Dr Debbie Holley and David Biggins presented a paper, co-authored with Dr Marketa Zezulkova and George Evangelinos, at the 3rd EAI International Conference on e-Learning e-Education and Online Training (eLEOT) in Dublin between 31st August and 2nd September 2016. The paper was entitled Digital Competence and Capability Frameworks in the Context of Learning, Self-Development and… Read more » about Best paper award for CEL
Our Fair Access Research project explores the potential of learning and working together to transform higher education. We are interested in finding ways to connect different spheres of widening participation work within — and across — different institutions. With this in mind, Maggie Hutchings and Alex Wardrop undertook a second lot of fieldwork with colleagues in the north of England… Read more » about Fieldnotes 2: widening participation and organisational learning
Our Fair Access Research project concentrates on the idea of learning and working together to transform higher education. We are interested in how widening participation works differently in different institutions. With this in mind, Maggie Hutchings and Alex Wardrop have been doing some fieldwork with colleagues in the north of England and would like to share some of their reflections… Read more » about Fieldnotes: widening participation and organisational learning
Today’s Tale from the field is about anonymisation. Contrary to other items in the researcher’s toolkit, such as scale development or thematic analysis, this is an often neglected point that, for some graduate students, only becomes an issue at the point of publication/reporting. I have been reflecting about this topic lately, given that visual data… Read more » about Let’s talk about anonymisation
As part of our Fair Access Research we’ve been doing some filming with SUBU. Our video clips will form part of a resource we are developing to help others find ways to build and sustain partnerships with Students’ Unions for widening participation. Working with Educational Technologist Chris O’Reilly we’ve been compiling useful resources and tips. We interviewed our new full-time officers – President, Daniel… Read more » about Partnerships of Widening Participation: Students’ Unions
In this post, Jacqueline Priego introduces the new blog feature ‘Tales from the field’. One of the main thrusts of CEL is driving pedagogic research, leading up to the next REF submission in Unit of Assessment 25. As part of this effort, I started working here as a research fellow a year ago. In this… Read more » about On audio-recorders…or introducing ‘Tales from the field’
Thank you to everyone who came to the Fair Access Research workshop, Visible Students/Invisible Needs on Monday 11th July. It was really powerful and humbling to hear from students about their experiences of university — the positive and the negative. Working with students and Students’ Unions is so important for those working to transform higher… Read more » about Working Together for Widening Participation
Setting up our ‘stall’ On Sunday, the CEL team braved the elements and set up a Festival of Learning stall in Bournemouth Lower Gardens. We were asking the public to share their stories of inspirational, remarkable, stimulating, motivational learning experiences, people or events to help inform our practices within BU and the wider HE… Read more » about CEL delivers an FoL event in Bournemouth Lower Gardens -Education Matters: share your story
Borrowing from the title of one of my favourite books on qualitative research (Qualitative researching with text, image and sound), next Saturday 25 June I will be hosting a public engagement event on qualitative analysis as part of BU’s Festival of Learning. My drop-in event ‘How do scientists analyse images, sound and text?’ Will introduce… Read more » about How do scientists analyse images, sound and text?
This blog post reports on the progress of the CEL-Fusion Funded project Assessing Undergraduate Research Assistants’ Learning through Participatory Methods (AURAL). The Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) is an institutional programme run by BU’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Office (RKEO), which furnishes academics with the financial means to hire a part-time (spring cohort) or full-time (summer… Read more » about Assessing Undergraduate Research Assistants’ Learning through Participatory Methods
