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Would you like to develop your digital skills? Over the next 5 months, CEL is piloting a project in which our own Generation Y students help BU staff to develop their digital skills, knowledge and confidence. Our pilot follows similar, successful projects at other HEIs. In terms of what help and support will be available,… Read more » about Digital skills help for Baby Boomers and Generation Xers
This year’s co-creation awards were handed out to 15 outstanding students from different faculties of BU. The event took place on the 1st of March on the 5th floor of the iconic Student Centre. In line with BU’s commitment of encouraging staff and students to work together to co-create and co-produce knowledge and research, this year’s award aims to… Read more » about BU Presents Co-Creation Awards to Outstanding Students
CEL are coming back to Bournemouth House next week where we challenge you to challenge us! If you have a TEL or teaching and learning issue, please share it with us and we will do our very best to help. If you would like to come along, please register here. If you didn’t have time… Read more » about Challenge CEL – Tue 8 March in B126a at 2pm
Last night on the 5th floor of the Student Centre, Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Tim MacIntyre-Bhatty and Head of CEL, Professor Gail Thomas hosted an awards evening for student winners of the co-creation competition. Of the 15 winners who all received a certificate and cheque for £500 to further their research, 14 were able to… Read more » about Last night’s co-creation award presentations
The Centre for Excellence in Learning will be running two events at the next Festival of Learning 2016. The first event captioned“Education Matters: share your story” will run from 11am – 4pm on Sunday 26 June 2016 and will consist of series of stalls in the community (potentially in the Bournemouth Lower Gardens). As an inclusive, participative and informal event,… Read more » about CEL events at Festival of Learning 2016
With many students engaging with social media, this session, aimed at academic staff, provides an introduction and description of some of the tools available: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Whatsapp and Periscope. Click here to book your place.
CEL are hosting the second seminar in semester 2 and the topic is the use of social media in teaching and learning. This event will be held on Thursday 18 Feb 16 between 14:00-16:00 in PG30a. With many students engaging with social media, this session provides an introduction and description of some of the tools… Read more » about CEL Seminar: Using social media in teaching and learning on 18 Feb 16
Do you have a teaching and learning issue and want to discuss it with someone? CEL are hosting two sessions in semester 2 which we are calling ‘Challenge CEL’. Please some along and share your issue with and we will do our very best to help. This is the first of the two session and… Read more » about Challenge CEL – 24 Feb 16, 12-1 in Bournemouth House B325
Would you like to attend the launch of CEL’s Technology Enhanced Learning Toolkit but cannot make it to Poole House? Join us for a live stream of the event via Periscope @cel_bu on Tuesday 2 February. We will be live streaming from 11am – see you then!
Webinar: What is Hadoop? 23 February 2016 Online, 15.00 – 16.00 Have you heard of Hadoop but don’t know what it is or what it does? Or do you know that Hadoop is used to store very large datasets but you don’t know what it can do or why it might be relevant to… Read more » about Big data webinars Hadoop and Spark
