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
Digital skills
Benchmarking your students’ digital experience – a Jisc-hosted session on 23rd May
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
Understanding where we are before we start the Brightspace training
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
Making more use of LinkedIn
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
The awesome New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report 2017 out now!
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!
Are you getting the most from our AV equipment?
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?
Dipping your toe into the virtual classroom
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
HE policy updated 27th January 2017
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
HE policy update w/e 20th January 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill – the Bill continues its committee stage in the Lords, with long and lively debates. Only government amendments have been approved so far, apart from last week’s amendment to clause 1. The list of amendments has continued to grow in the meantime, there is a genuine risk that they may… Read more » about HE policy update w/e 20th January 2017
Self-assessing your digital skills
It has almost been a year since the Digital Skills Self-Assessment was launched. To date, some 60% of academic staff have completed the questionnaire. For academic staff, completing the questionnaire gives you valuable insights into your range of skills and also identifies areas where you may want to develop in the future. From a CEL… Read more » about Self-assessing your digital skills
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