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It’s been a busy year for the FLIE Team! Along with the routine work of supporting staff in using technology enhanced learning tools and Brightspace, the team has also been hard at work introducing new HTML Brightspace templates, supporting the implementation of JISC Learning Analytics, and creating innovative 360° videos aimed at improving empathy for… Read more » about Review of FLIE activity for 2023
LEGO® World Play Day 2023 will take place on Thursday October 12th. The annual event celebrates LEGO! This year’s theme is the Superpower of Play. Here at BU we love LEGO so come and celebrate the superpower of play at the Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence in DG68: 10.00 – What is Lego… Read more » about The Superpower of play – Lego World Play Day 12th Oct
The love of Lego® is reaching far and wide at BU. Every Lego® Serious Play® session is crafted to meet session aims, objectives and intended learning outcomes with reflective questions integrated to get the maximum out of the time windows afforded within the timetabled slots. Working with so many areas across BU is fascinating; from… Read more » about Serious Play, Serious Fun: Speaking Bricks
Last week, the Learning Technology team had the opportunity to get involved in a Lego® Serious Play® workshop with practitioner Dr Holly Henderson from FLIE. In these workshops, Lego is used to model themes and visualise ideas in a safe space which fosters communication where everyone’s voice is heard. In our team building activity, the team… Read more » about LTs get serious with Lego
The Centre for Excellence is committed to inspiring creative approaches to learning and teaching. CEL has several boxes of lego that staff can borrow. Please contact Curie Scott We were delighted to host Professor Alison Smith (Professor of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester) who facilitated two sessions . Here is a summary… Read more » about Building the University of the Future – Lego workshop
Event Date: 14:00 – 15:30, Thurs 7th March 2019 Room: PG30a, Talbot campus Book now on eventbrite Higher education is experiencing an unprecedented period of change in which the future face, shape, identity and purpose of the university are all being challenged. With an uncertain political, social and technological future on… Read more » about 7.3.19 Book now for “Building the University of the Future – Lego Event”
Manne Garon-Buffery, Placement Coordinator to Level 5 Design & Engineering students, shares her experience of using Lego for the first time. CEL has boxes of Lego for short term loan for teaching and training, please contact Curie Scott Level 5 Design & Engineering includes four cohorts totalling 190 students studying Product Design, Industrial Design, Design… Read more » about The use of Lego for an Assessment Centres Workshop
Tauheed Ramjaun, Lecturer In Corporate Communications, FMC attended a Lego workshop run by the Centre of Excellence. CEL has boxes of lego to loan out if you are interested in using it for education. Here is his report of using Lego. During this first week of teaching, I had the opportunity to apply the LEGO®… Read more » about MA Corporate Communication students experience LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
The head who transformed a small Scottish school has a new job description: to counter rote learning with play Ollie Bray: ‘Learning through play is widely accepted in the early years and my job will be to find ways of incorporating it into the curriculum for older children.’ When Ollie Bray arrived as headteacher of… Read more » about From Highlands headteacher to Lego’s global director of play
This year, CEL have facilitated workshops focused on the knowledge-making potential of creative processes. Students, even if they are hesitant at first, appreciate the time to think, process and create something. These approaches can be adapted from short five minute bursts of activity to longer pieces of collaborative work. Examples include the use of collage,… Read more » about CELebrate2018 – Creative approaches in large groups: workshop on photos and collage
