Education

The use of Lego for an Assessment Centres Workshop

Posted . Filed under Co-creation, Creative Methods, Creativity, Education, Lego, Lego serious play, News, Reflective practice, Study Skills, Teaching and Learning, Visual learning, Visual thinking.

Manne Garon-Buffery, Placement Coordinator to Level 5 Design & Engineering students, shares her experience of using Lego for the first time. CEL has boxes of Lego for short term loan for teaching and training, please contact Curie Scott  Level 5 Design & Engineering includes four cohorts totalling 190 students studying Product Design, Industrial Design, Design… Read more » about The use of Lego for an Assessment Centres Workshop

Open online seminar series: new for 2019

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

Word cloud to depict series of emotions re online learning

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

Getting to Know Alexa

Posted . Filed under AI, BIG DATA, Blended learning, Brightspace, CEL Staff, Co-creation, Communities of Practice, Education, Flipped classroom, Innovation, TeachBU.

Following on from my discussion of domestic virtual assistants, I wanted to know more about how they worked in practice. I already have the Google Mini home and it is currently quite limited. It is linked to the Google Home Assistant which is basically your Google account, so it should link to all your Google… Read more » about Getting to Know Alexa

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

Posted . Filed under Case Studies Outside BU, Digital skills, Education, employability, Resource.

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

BU staff member to be on prestigious national judging panel

Posted . Filed under Education, Equality and Diversity, Events and workshops, HE Students, News.

group of 3 students sitting round table

Colleagues, the eagle eyed amongst you may have spotted that Michelle Morgan, Associate Dean for the Student Experience in FMC is on the national Guardian University Awards judging panel for 2019– well done Michelle! Michelle was asked to be a judge because of her national and international reputation in the field of the student experience… Read more » about BU staff member to be on prestigious national judging panel

Wonkfest18: what are the key messages?

Posted . Filed under Conference Report, Education, HE Students.

The ultimate chic location of Ravensbourne University down by the Millennium Dome was the location of this years  @wonkfest18 –  500 academics, policy makers and industry shakers came together to discuss, debate and future spot Higher Education trends. Policy: Sir Michael Barber, head of the Office for Students emphasised its regulatory responsibilities, and challenged Universities… Read more » about Wonkfest18: what are the key messages?

‘Hologram’ lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London

Posted . Filed under Education, Teaching and Learning.

University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like apparitions beamed in from afar. Imperial College London will show off the technology at a special event later on Thursday before deploying it more widely. It believes it will be the first academic body to do so regularly. A… Read more » about ‘Hologram’ lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London

The European Digital Action Plan

Posted . Filed under Case Studies Outside BU, Digital skills, Education, employability, Equality and Diversity, EU, HE Students.

A short summary: Through the European cooperation between EU Member States, the exchange of good practices and  peer learning, the EU work on a Digital Action Plan started in January 2018. Set against a backdrop of desire to  reduce of the socio-economic inequalities, the action plan will be a comprehensive plan seeking to improve key… Read more » about The European Digital Action Plan