Digital skills

Sharing practice: the instructional design team at Solent

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In January I visited Dr Carina Buckley and her Instructional Design team at Southampton Solent University.  It was a great chance to see how a similar team to our own was approaching TEL in HE and if there was any best practice we could share. Their ‘SOL Baseline’ to guide their academics in the philosophy… Read more » about Sharing practice: the instructional design team at Solent

18th March Animation, Simulation and Visualisation: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Posted by & filed under Augmented Reality, Blended learning, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Education, Events and workshops, Teaching and Learning, Visual learning, Visual thinking.

Date:     18th March 2019 Timings 10-1pm room:  Student Hall, Talbot campus The CEL/TEL team at Bournemouth University are investigating Augmented and Virtual Reality and how that might be used to enhance learning. Come and join us for an introduction to Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR). We will showcase examples of how work… Read more » about 18th March Animation, Simulation and Visualisation: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Data Science: a short briefing from Dr Mike Hobbs, Visiting Researcher in CEL

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Dr Mike Hobbs, Visiting Researcher in CEL and an expert in data, AI and AR/VR shares the first is  series of short postings: These days, if we are involved in research, policy or just trying to find evidence for good practice we need data science.       https://www.datasciencecentral.com Data Science Central is a site… Read more » about Data Science: a short briefing from Dr Mike Hobbs, Visiting Researcher in CEL

Cafe Scientifique Tues 5th Feb 7.30-9pm – A ‘wicked challenge’: supporting our students’ learning with new technologies

Posted by & filed under Augmented Reality, Blended learning, CEL Staff, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Education, Events and workshops, Flipped classroom, Gamification, HE Students, Innovation, Mobile learning, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, UoA23, UoA23 Impact, Virtual Avebury, Virtual reality, Visual learning, Visual thinking, Widening participation.

The CEL team are presenting @ Café Scientifique Bournemouth  Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, you can explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Enjoy listening to a short talk before engaging in debate and discussion around that topic. Join us on… Read more » about Cafe Scientifique Tues 5th Feb 7.30-9pm – A ‘wicked challenge’: supporting our students’ learning with new technologies

Call: Conference for Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE)

Posted by & filed under conference call, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Drawing, Education, employability, Equality and Diversity, Events and workshops, HE Students, Innovation.

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The annual conference for Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) is being held at Newcastle University, UK 4-5th September 2019 The call for contributions is now live and we ask for your proposals by 16th February, 2019. We celebrate 10 years of RAISE this year! There will be keynotes from Bruce Macfarlane, Cathy Bovill and Colin Bryson. The conference… Read more » about Call: Conference for Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE)

BETT 2019 Day One

Posted by & filed under Assessment and feedback, Augmented Reality, Blended learning, CEL Staff, Conference Report, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Education, Equality and Diversity, Events and workshops, Gamification, Innovation, Mobile learning, News, Reflective practice, Social Media, TELID, Virtual reality, Visual learning.

Held over four days at the Excel Centre in London,  BETT showcases the education, technology landscape with 800 +leading companies, 103 Ed tech startups and over 34,000 attendees. In other words, it’s big and it’s busy. Day One was attended by John Moran, Jenna Giles-Bodilly and David Hunt from CEL. Although there are a wide… Read more » about BETT 2019 Day One

Hot off the press: The Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Posted by & filed under Co-creation, Creative Methods, Digital skills, Drawing, Education, HE Students, Learning analytics.

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Colleagues Please see below – our own PGCERT external examiner, Dr Jenny Marie has an article on the consderations of the challenges, conflicts and competitions when expanding staff-student partnerships across three instituions and a timely and interesting read on the potential challanges and pitfalls of using learner analytics as a tool for supporting student wellbeing… Read more » about Hot off the press: The Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

#SocMedHE18 – running 9th January if anyone interested in following on twitter…

Posted by & filed under Case Studies Outside BU, Co-creation, conference call, Creativity, Digital skills, Events and workshops.

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Dear All You are warmly invited to attend the Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference hosted at Nottingham Trent University on the 9th January 2019   #SocMedHE18 is nudged into the New Year and is the fourth SocMedHE Conference. The event will provide open spaces to share, discuss and develop notions about how… Read more » about #SocMedHE18 – running 9th January if anyone interested in following on twitter…

Open online seminar series: new for 2019

Posted by & filed under Blended learning, Case Studies Outside BU, Creative Commons, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Education, Events and workshops, HE Students, OER, Webinar.

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Apologies for cross posting, but teams thinking about curriculum development may find these of interest. These are faciliatated by top TEL researchers and digital ‘do-ers!’ ====== Link to original blog post: http://teachcom.myblog.arts.ac.uk Information: This open online seminar series from UAL …The series is exploring open and creative approaches to teaching and learning. It’s an ultra-low… Read more » about Open online seminar series: new for 2019

The rise of the digital: Linkedin highlights its role in talent development

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Staying relevant in the age of automation is what respondents said to the Linkedin workplace research that offers the backdrop to this years report on workplace learning. 68% of those surveyed preferred to learn at work when developing their digital skills, and expect their employers to create the space for this to happen. And ensuring… Read more » about The rise of the digital: Linkedin highlights its role in talent development