TBL 101 – The Introduction to Team-based Learning with Simon Tweddell, Senior Lecturer, University of Bradford 1-3pm on Wednesday 11th October 2017, Lansdowne campus (S218) Lectures (teacher-centred) have been criticised as promoting passivity, poor knowledge retention and potentially even (!) boredom in students. As an alternative, student-centred approaches have been advocated where the teacher is… Read more » about TBL 101 – The Introduction to Team-based Learning with Simon Tweddell
Events and workshops
MA Education Practice Pedagogic courses
Welcome to Autumn and new courses for you! CEL are delighted to announce our new MA Education Practice with a variety of entry and exit points. We are offering four short courses/accredited units for BU staff across the academic year. Colleagues can develop their skills and understanding in areas important to the success of BU2018…. Read more » about MA Education Practice Pedagogic courses
‘Going for Gold’ TEF and subject level TEF with Debbie, Jane & Jacky (Monday 11 September 12-2.00 Talbot Campus)
Going for Gold’ with Debbie, Jane and Jacky Monday 11 September 12-2.00 Talbot Campus BU were delighted to achieve a Silver Award with our recent TEF submission. However, the data to move us up to ‘Gold’ in 2020 starts to be collated now and at the same time the process is starting for ‘subject level’… Read more » about ‘Going for Gold’ TEF and subject level TEF with Debbie, Jane & Jacky (Monday 11 September 12-2.00 Talbot Campus)
Brightspace drop in sessions in August – the next one is on Thursday 10th
We have scheduled 5 sessions in August, the next of which is tomorrow. All the sessions run between 13:00 and 17:00. You are welcome to drop in for as long or as short a time as you wish. The sessions are on: Lansdowne Thursday 10 August. S103 Monday 14 August. S103 Monday 21 August. S102 Talbot… Read more » about Brightspace drop in sessions in August – the next one is on Thursday 10th
How to reinvigorate your routine
‘Very few of us look at our schedules and say, “Wow – that looks like a recipe for joy. Please bring it on”. But it doesn’t take much effort to more proactively include activities that will make the day more delightful. Here is a different way of seeing your daily routine, one that draws on… Read more » about How to reinvigorate your routine
CELebrate 2017: Embedding industry competitions in student assessment
At the recent CELebrate conference, Melanie Gray presented work on embedding industry competitions in student assessment. Industry competitions are an interesting way to build triadic engagement between academics, students and industry aligning closely with our Bournemouth University blended fusion model of research, professional practice and education. Competition and its use within learning can be seen as an… Read more » about CELebrate 2017: Embedding industry competitions in student assessment
CELebrate 2017: Exploring and utilising students’ perspectives on feedback: a mixed method, longitudinal approach
At the recently held CELebrate 2017 conference, Dr. Peter Hills, Kara Peterson, Simon Croker and Dr. Rachel Manning gave a presentation about psychology undergraduate students’ perspectives on assessment feedback. Participants came from all three undergraduate years and spanned a range of academic profiles. The research was longitudinal, from January 2013 to April 2014. A mixed method approach was… Read more » about CELebrate 2017: Exploring and utilising students’ perspectives on feedback: a mixed method, longitudinal approach
Brightspace drop-in schedule for August
In the last week, we have run the first three drop-in sessions for staff. The idea is that staff can come along and work on their Brightspace unit and gain help, if needed, from the on-hand staff from IT Skills, LLS and CEL. We had 7 people at yesterday’s session and one person commented that… Read more » about Brightspace drop-in schedule for August
CELebrate 2017: An Introduction to Team-based Learning
An Introduction to Team-based Learning, Jonny Branney Jonny Branney’s Team-based Learning (TBL) workshop gave delegates the opportunity to experience TBL first-hand and find out how they might implement this strategy to boost student engagement in their own classes. Student-centred active learning approaches are considered to be effective ways for promoting students’ engagement with their learning, but… Read more » about CELebrate 2017: An Introduction to Team-based Learning
CELebrate 2017: Creating sizzling businesses using practitioner feed-forward and authentic assessment
Blended, Flipped and Fried: Creating sizzling businesses using practitioner feed-forward and authentic assessment, Keith Pretty Keith Pretty shared the challenges, solutions and his evolving Blended, Flipped and Fried approach to creating sizzling learning and assessment experiences. His work pertains to the Level 6 Business Development and Enterprise unit which is focused on the creation of businesses… Read more » about CELebrate 2017: Creating sizzling businesses using practitioner feed-forward and authentic assessment
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