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Assessment and Feedback Toolkit

Posted by & filed under Assessment and feedback, FLIE, News.

Have you seen the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit? FLIE’s Assessment and Feedback Toolkit provides resources for academic staff along with tools and strategies to align assessment and feedback practices with the BU Principles of Assessment Design Policy (6c). At BU we support the Higher Education Academy’s principle that teaching and learning in Higher Education can… Read more »

New Brightspace Feature Pilot – Activity Feed

Posted by & filed under Co-creation, Creativity, Education, FLIE, Teaching and Learning, TEL, TELID, VLE.

As a part our ongoing evaluation of updates to Brightspace, for Semester 2, we will be piloting a new widget called ‘Activity Feed’ which replaces the current ‘Announcements’ tool on your unit Homepage. The Activity Feed allows linked content and activities to be more easily embedded in posts and brings a new approach to the… Read more »

Posted by & filed under Co-creation, Coaching/ Mentoring, Communities of Practice, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Education, FLIE, Flipped classroom, HE Students, Innovation, MA Education, Reflective practice, Teaching and Learning, Visual learning, Visual thinking.

At FLIE, we promote working with creative methods with HE students to encourage divergent thinking. We showcased work previously using collage, images, lego and origami Working with creative methods assists active learning in both small and large groups through reflection, personalisation and social learning, Rebecca Hindley, Lecturer & Faculty of Management Peer Assisted Learning (PAL)… Read more »

Immersive Technology Articles

Posted by & filed under Education, FLIE, Gamification, Health, Innovation, Mental Health, Virtual reality, Visual learning.

Here are three articles from this week, which you may find interesting. 1. First major trial of VR therapy for serious mental health conditions launches. The first large-scale trial of virtual reality therapy for serious mental health conditions has been launched in the U.K. Healthtech startup Oxford VR has teamed up with gameChange, a £4… Read more »

BU Learning Technologists run Tech Futures workshop for the SCHOMS conference 2019

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SCHOMS Annual Conference 2019 SCHOMS is the professional body for Senior Managers working within UK and Republic of Ireland Higher Education and its members lead and manage a diverse set of educational, technological, media and institutional development and support services. They give strategic direction to support technological trends and promote excellence in teaching and learning practices and their environments. This year… Read more »