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Bournemouth staff attend the annual Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference 2019

Posted . Filed under Assessment and feedback, Blended learning, Brightspace, Case Studies: In BU, CEL Staff, Co-creation, Conference Report, CPD, Creative Methods, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Drawing, Education, HE Students, Innovation, Leadership, Research, Visual learning.

Solent University run an annual Learning and Teaching Community Conference in their inspiring ‘SPARK’ building. This year, Bournemouth University staff from HSS, FMC and Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence collaborated  and presented two research papers and a workshop. , Find out more on twitter: #SLTCC2019 The full programme with speakers is available from here: https://www.solent.ac.uk/staff/learning-and-teaching/community-conferences/sltcc-programme… Read more » about Bournemouth staff attend the annual Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference 2019

The Future of Edtech Conference 2019

Posted . Filed under Case Studies Outside BU, Conference Report, Digital skills, HE Students, Innovation, Leadership, Policy.

What is new and happening in Edtech? The Future of Edtech Conference runs annually as part of London Tech Week, and this year the topic was Transforming Higher Education, with their strapline of “Uniting University Leaders and Transformational Technology to Support Innovation Across the 21st Century University”. I was invited to contribute to a panel,… Read more » about The Future of Edtech Conference 2019

Journal of Information Literacy – June version free to download

Posted . Filed under Case Studies Outside BU, Communities of Practice, Creativity, Digital skills, Education, HE Students, Library, OER.

Pile of books

We are delighted to announce that the June issue of the Journal of Information Literacy has been published and is free to read and download at https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/. This issue includes peer-reviewed articles on the use of the Philosophy for Children method in library programming in ‘Shaking up story time’; research into ‘What academics really think about… Read more » about Journal of Information Literacy – June version free to download

Changing practices: why culture matters

Posted . Filed under Augmented Reality, Communities of Practice, Conference Report, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Education, EU, HE Students, Innovation, TEL, Virtual Avebury, Virtual reality.

A report from Debbie Holley, Professor of Learning Innovation, HSS The Instytut Pedagogiki (Institute of Pedagogy), part  of Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, is a centre of excellent practice in teaching and developing trainee teachers based in Lublin, Poland. Students undertake a three year undergraduate programme of study, followed by a two year Masters specialisation. The Scientific… Read more » about Changing practices: why culture matters

New website launched as part of Erasmus Exchange

Posted . Filed under Augmented Reality, Digital skills, Education, Erasmus, EU, HE Students, Innovation, News, Podcast, Teaching and Learning, TEL.

Prof. Debbie Holley, HSS, on an Erasmus exchange with FMC, Principal Academic, Dr. Ann Luce, led a Technology Enhanced Learning workshop and the University of Salento in Italy. As part of her contribution to the workshop, Prof. Holley focused specifically on augmented reality and launched a new website, co-developed with Dr. Mike Hobbs, a visiting… Read more » about New website launched as part of Erasmus Exchange

Free online webinar: Online Maths Support for Remote Learners Wednesday 3rd July 2019,  10.00am – 4.00pm

Posted . Filed under Curriculum design, Events and workshops, HE Students, Resource.

The sigma Network is delighted to announce a FREE event for anyone with an interest in mathematics and statistics support in Higher Education: Online Maths Support for Remote Learners Wednesday 3rd July 2019,  10.00am – 4.00pm Staffordshire University The scene will be set with presentations from Dr Sue Pawley and Dr Tim Lowe from the Open University, who… Read more » about Free online webinar: Online Maths Support for Remote Learners Wednesday 3rd July 2019,  10.00am – 4.00pm

CAN 2019 – Change agents’ network conference programme

Posted . Filed under Case Studies Outside BU, conference call, HE Students, JISC.

Apologies for cross posting, this may of interest. === We very much hope you and your students can join us for this celebration of student staff partnerships and how they are driving forward innovation in digital. The 7th annual conference is being hosted by The Open University on their Milton Keynes campus on the 29-30 May…. Read more » about CAN 2019 – Change agents’ network conference programme

The BU Assessment and Feedback Toolkit: leading the way at ALDinHE

Posted . Filed under ALDinHE, Assessment and feedback, Case Studies: In BU, CEL Staff, Creative Methods, Curriculum design, Education, Events and workshops, HE Students, Innovation, News.

Image of Prof Holley presenting

Anne Quinney, Ann Luce and Debbie Holley presented the BU Assessment and Feedback Toolkit to a national audience in a workshop at the ALDinHE conference last week. Alongside their work, two keynotes set the tone for different aspects of life in Higher Education today. The link to the programme is here, and all slides, presentations… Read more » about The BU Assessment and Feedback Toolkit: leading the way at ALDinHE