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Immigration, International Students and Brexit The government have commissioned a series of assessments and reviews of the impact of immigration policy and Brexit via the Migration Advisory Committee: Call for evidence and briefing note: EEA-workers in the UK labour market – we will be responding on the HE questions via UCEA and UUK and we… Read more » about HE Policy Update w/e 25th August 2017
A wonderful day was had by all at the BU Festival of Learning family day, Saturday 8th July. Our showcase included augmented reality, virtual reality, using the OCULUS RIFT, co-creating content for Google cardboard using 360 degree cameras and lots more. Families dropped in for the whole day, and explored the technologies of the future…. and were… Read more » about BU Festival of learning: CEL Innovation Showcase
It’s not often that I get excited by training. However, the training provided by the Brightspace team has sparked all sorts of internal conversations. The training was beautifully designed: I had my own ‘sandbox’ to play in and live support from the team. This was a sophisticated lesson to an educationalist about learning by doing… Read more » about Excited about Brightspace
We wanted to alert you to this masterclass. This masterclass will provide participants with an overview of innovative techniques on benchmarking your students’ digital experience. Participants will have opportunities to consider the use of these tools to inform their own institutional practice and have a better understanding of how to gather students’ expectations and experiences… Read more » about Benchmarking your students’ digital experience – a Jisc-hosted session on 23rd May
Since the Digital Skills Self-Assessment was launched, there have been 435 responses to the questionnaire. This has been very helpful to CEL in understanding the range and depth of digital skills across the organisation. In addition, academic staff who have completed the questionnaire report that it gives valuable insights into their skills and identifies areas… Read more » about Understanding where we are before we start the Brightspace training
LinkedIn is used by employers across world to identify the best future employees and is an easy way for students to demonstrate all they have done in addition to their core degree study that makes them highly employable. These videos on using LinkedIn and self-quiz to identify good areas for up-skilling have been co-created by… Read more » about Making more use of LinkedIn
Colleagues, The NMC Horizons Report is perhaps the premier global report about what is coming next for us as educators. The preview has an overview thought piece ‘Rethinking the Roles of Educators’ as well as identifying key technology trends: Short term: Blended Learning Designs; Collaborative approaches Medium term: Focus on measuring learning; Redesigning learning spaces Long term:… Read more » about The awesome New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report 2017 out now!
A new section of the IT Services website has recently been developed, which contains information to help staff gain the most from BU’s audio-visual equipment. This includes: ‘Cheat sheet’ user guides for AV setups in Meeting Rooms, Seminar Rooms, Lecture Theatres and Agile/Synergy Spaces User guides for audio-visual hardware (e.g. Document Cameras, Wireless Presentation devices… Read more » about Are you getting the most from our AV equipment?
A virtual classroom is an online environment where staff and students can come together and share audio, video, documents and applications. One of the major benefits is that the session can be recorded and then made available to participants for example through the VLE. It is not only for staff and students but can be… Read more » about Dipping your toe into the virtual classroom
Industrial Strategy Green Paper The Government launched the Industrial Strategy Green Paper and consultation this week. The paper focuses on improving Britain’s innovation and productivity in key areas alongside upskilling the workforce to become world leading. The government suggest a number of areas of industry specialism that should be supported: clean energy robotics healthcare space… Read more » about HE policy updated 27th January 2017
