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Dr Martyn Polkinghorne made his first contribution to the FLIE@BU LinkedIn Page with an article on The Changing Face of Doctoral Studies. The number of doctoral students in the UK, and the variety of types of doctorates, have grown enormously. With now over 100,000 new doctoral students starting their research degree in the UK each year,… Read more » about The Changing Face of Doctoral Studies
FLIE@BU changed its LinkedIn cover and profile image to celebrate the upcoming International Women’s Day. Follow us to access insightful content on female contributions to Higher Education, the gender gap in online learning, events hosted or supported by BU and more! The FLIE Team
FLIE is keeping up with the Education Enhancement Workshops. The schedule for March and April is available here. Each event is an opportunity to join conversations and debates with Dr Uma Patel, Anne Quinney and Dr Mark Readman. These workshops are also a great chance to network and connect with fellow professionals. Registrations must be… Read more » about New FLIE Education Enhancement Workshops
This week a FLIE Educational Enhancement workshop, led by Anne Quinney, focussed on using the generic assessment criteria. John Moran, Learning Technologist, contributed to the session and encouraged people to use the electronic rubric and to use the QuickMarks facility. The session covered how to use the Generic Assessment Criteria; where they are located in… Read more » about Lively debate in the FLIE Generic Assessment Criteria Workshop
The Faculty of Health Sciences and Health Education England ran an inter-faculty Simulation Research Day in January, an exciting event that was rolled out with the support of FLIE staff and had 4 clear goals: To build awareness and showcase Faculty HEE simulation projects To develop external networks with key partners To run a bespoke… Read more » about FHSS/HEE Inter-faculty Simulation Research Day Supported by FLIE
FLIE’s Principal Lecturer Anne Quinney delivered an Education Excellence workshop on Assessment for Learning. The workshop focussed on the 6 dimensions of Sambell’s model (below) and provided opportunities to discover how to use these in unit design and in designing assessment. Sambell’s model underpins the BU Assessment Design policy (6c) and the BU Generic Assessment… Read more » about Assessment for Learning: Education Excellence workshop
AdvanceHE run this prestigious national scheme for excellent educators. The National Teaching Fellowships Scheme (NTFS) is open to all Higher Education Providers (HEPs) across the four nations of the UK, including Further Education Colleges and independent ‘alternative’ providers. Each UK HEP is invited to nominate up to three individual members of staff who can clearly… Read more » about The National Teaching Fellow Scheme at Bournemouth University (2)
The FLIEflix portal signposts you to a range of help and guidance offered by FLIE using a boxset format which brings together our online support under recognisable themes. It’s a resource you can return to time and time again and we’ve recently added some updates. Education Enhancement Workshop resources You’ll now find a summary of… Read more » about Updated resources on FLIEflix
Registrations are open for FLIE’s upcoming Education Enhancement Workshops. You can register for the March events via the Brighspace Staff Resources page. The March calendar is also available for download To see the content from some of our previous workshops head over to FLIEFlix. Looking forward to seeing you there! FLIE Team
Many lecturers at BU teach classes with 60-120+ students. These are large cohorts! In the last workshop on this topic, it was clear that the specificity of discipline/field and teaching context are critical. The workshop in January draws on case studies and will make space for audience experience and group thinking. As I said in… Read more » about Teaching Large Cohorts – Education Enhancement Workshop Summary
