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Enhance and develop your own Practice; gain a deeper understanding of Pedagogic Principles; share and develop your knowledge and skills with the CEL CPD opportunities Available for all BU staff, take a series of one or half day workshops (spread out over the semester) to extend your own CPD/ build your promotion profile/ move towards… Read more » about Pedagogic CPD opportunities for BU staff – beginning March 2017
CEL are hosting two TEL Toolkit sessions on 14 & 15 Feb. The purpose of these sessions is to explore how you can use the Toolkit in your teaching practice. There is no set agenda. Instead we respond to what tutors need and explore the options. That said, we try to cover 6-7 tools per… Read more » about TEL Toolkit sessions on 14 & 15 Feb 17
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
HEA student experience and engagement surveys 2017 We currently have more than one hundred confirmed participants in the postgraduate PTES and PRES surveys and a 60% increase in participants in the undergraduate UKES. If you want to find out more about participation and the support we can offer you in running the surveys, please get… Read more » about Higher Education Academy Update – 10 January 2017
Colleagues, this may be of interest to some…Debbie ============== Dear SEDA Colleagues Bookings are now open for Online Introduction to Educational Change. This 4-week online workshop will run from 20th February until 17th March 2017. This workshop has recently been re-designed to follow an ‘inquiry-based learning’ approach. Using the SEDA Values as a guiding framework,… Read more » about Want to try a ‘mini’ online course? Try the SEDA ‘Online Introduction to Educational Change’
Apologies for cross-posting For details on the first International Summer Institute on ‘Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education’ in May 2016 see: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute/. The next Summer Institute will be held from 8-11 May, 2017 For four free publications each 20-40,000 words see: (2013) Developing and enhancing undergraduate final-year projects and dissertations… Read more » about Prof Mick Healey – links to his fabulous resources and ‘students as partners’ conference in May
What is the nature of the innovation required from education for our mobile and connected society? First in the ‘Leading Innovation’ series of seminars, Professor John Traxler, Professor of Digital Learning at the University of Wolverhampton, will visit BU on Tuesday 24 January to present ‘What is the nature of the innovation required from education for… Read more » about Leading Innovation Seminars: Professor John Traxler talks on Tuesday 24th January
The next session of our ‘Introduction to Education Practice‘ course will run from the 27th to the 29th of March. This is a research-driven, practice-based course, aimed at doctoral students who are or will be supporting teaching activities. The course has four main aims: To introduce students to theoretical and practical knowledge on adult learning,… Read more » about Introduction to Education Practice: A Programme for Research Students
Apologies for cross-posting ======== Take a look at the range of free online training webinars we have for 2017. The UK Data Service has released its 2017 programme of regular introductory webinars, which will be held throughout the year. These will introduce different aspects of the Service and explain our key datasets. The webinars are… Read more » about UK Data Service – free online training webinars
This is how one attendee at today’s LEGO Serious Play workshop described the session, hosted by CEL and run by Tim Gale and Louise Fazakarley. PG30a was packed for this introduction to how LEGO can be used in teaching and learning. Infact, the session was so popular that we will need to run more sessions… Read more » about Brick-tastic!
