Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence

Importance and awareness of NSS improvement initiatives: A case study of final year undergraduate students

Posted June 6, 2016. Filed under Case Studies: In BU, Co-creation.

Prof. Ven Tauringana, Dr. Marcellus Mbah and Dr. Phyllis Alexander report on a project supported by the CEL Fusion Fund in the academic year 2015/2016. The project centred on a case study which investigated the importance and awareness of national student survey (NSS) improvement initiatives in one university department. The project was motivated by an observation that despite many initiatives that the… Read more » about Importance and awareness of NSS improvement initiatives: A case study of final year undergraduate students

Legal Skills development: the transformative mooting learning journey

Posted June 1, 2016. Filed under Case Studies: In BU, Co-creation.

Dr Max Lowenstein provides update on his project – “Legal Skills development: the transformative mooting learning journey“. This project, supported by the CEL Fusion Fund in the academic year 2015/15 has successfully developed 1st year law students as they prepared and delivered ‘advanced’ mooting skills via workshops and participated with non-law students across BU via show trials. Mooting is… Read more » about Legal Skills development: the transformative mooting learning journey

Fair Access Briefing: Published

Posted May 26, 2016. Filed under Co-creation, Fair access, Public Engagement, Resource, Widening participation.

The Fair Access Research programme is pleased to announce the publication of our first Fair Access Briefing! In this first briefing you get to meet the team and we share with you some of the background to the project. We share a case study of a student co-creation project exploring perceptions of disability during the admissions process and find… Read more » about Fair Access Briefing: Published

Engage Competition 2016: open for entries!

Posted May 10, 2016. Filed under Co-creation, Public Engagement, Sustainability.

The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement‘s award competition, Engage 2016, is open for entries! The closing date is Monday 18th July 2016 at 12 noon. The competition recognises and celebrates the excellent work that it is being done to share and develop research with the public. Applications are welcome from projects of all sizes and cost… Read more » about Engage Competition 2016: open for entries!

The meta Teaching and Learning project! share your CELebrate resources

Posted May 4, 2016. Filed under Case Studies Outside BU, Co-creation, Digital skills, Resource.

Colleagues, MetaT&L aims to relate a massive resource reflecting the good practice of innovative university teachers. They will publish your updated presentations about innovative teaching and learning alongside presentations from peers accepted for their own institution’s teaching and learning conference. You can submit: Papers – evidence-informed short papers Presentations of innovative practice Workshop materials –… Read more » about The meta Teaching and Learning project! share your CELebrate resources

Team-work on Team-based Learning Project : My experience as a URA

Posted April 21, 2016. Filed under Co-creation.

Blog post by Jade Offer, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Innovative Pedagogy)I applied to become an Undergraduate Research Assistant (URA) as I believed it would help me develop and learn new skills, and it did! As an accounting student, I enjoy working with numbers and that is why I initially applied. The field I choose was unrelated… Read more » about Team-work on Team-based Learning Project : My experience as a URA

Public Engagement: why it matters for research

Posted April 12, 2016. Filed under Co-creation, Fair access, Public Engagement.

Our Research and Knowledge Exchange team just held a public engagement training session led by Steve Dorney. Steve heads up the University of Southampton’s Public Engagement with Research Unit. In the session Steve his expertise to support a mix of BU academics and research students from a whole host of disciplines to know more about public engagement… Read more » about Public Engagement: why it matters for research

Festival of Learning 2016: grassroots responses to educational disadvantage

Posted April 11, 2016. Filed under Co-creation, Fair access, Sustainability, Widening participation.

GRASSROOTS RESPONSES TO REGIONAL EDUCATION CHALLENGES: a workshop As part of BU’s Festival of Learning, our Fair Access Researchers will be facilitating a workshop exploring educational disadvantage in the region. The event will be held on Monday 27 June 2016 between 14:00-16:00 in the new FUSION BUILDING, TALBOT CAMPUS [F107]. Bournemouth, Poole and surrounding region face significant challenges when it comes… Read more » about Festival of Learning 2016: grassroots responses to educational disadvantage

Upcoming Tablet Talk: ‘Mobile Video for Learning, Teaching, and Fusion’

Posted April 5, 2016. Filed under Co-creation, Events and workshops, News, TEL.

Following on from some of the ideas discussed in a previous post – 5 Different Things to Do With Panopto – there will be a Tablet Talk session on Friday 6th May that will explore some of the potential uses of mobile video through Panopto. The session will cover: A brief overview of Panopto for those not familiar… Read more » about Upcoming Tablet Talk: ‘Mobile Video for Learning, Teaching, and Fusion’

Panopto – Now available on all staff PCs

Posted April 1, 2016. Filed under Blended learning, Co-creation, Flipped classroom, News, TEL.

IT Services recently rolled out the Panopto Recorder software to all staff PCs and learning spaces, including the presenter PCs in seminar rooms. It is also available in all Lecture Theatres. You can use Panopto to record live lectures, or to pre-record lectures and similar activities in advance from your own desktop. You can also use… Read more » about Panopto – Now available on all staff PCs

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