I’m delighted to confirm that the following colleagues have recently achieved fellowship from Advance HE after applying through TeachBU: Associate Fellow: Lucky Otame (BUBS), Michael-Sam Vidza (FST) & Rejoice Chipuriro (FHSS) Fellow: Abier Hamidi (FMC), Andrew Morris (FHSS), Elpida Fragkouli (FST), Louise Burgess (FHSS) & Marc Vander Linden (FST) Senior Fellow: Arathy John (FHSS), Alison… Read more » about TeachBU Update – Colleagues Achieving HEA Fellowship
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AI and Assessment and Feedback – upcoming workshops
The following FLIE events are now available to book. Workshops will be hybrid so you can choose to attend online or in person. Use the links in the table to book your place via Eventbrite. Theme Date and Time Content Preparing for Artificial Intelligence in Assessment and Feedback design: Revert, outrun, or embrace 12th… Read more » about AI and Assessment and Feedback – upcoming workshops
Don’t forget to submit your abstract for the Fusion Learning Conference
We are delighted to accept presentation abstracts from BU academic and professional service staff for this year’s Fusion Learning Conference which is being held on 5th July 2023. The core themes for this year’s conference are: Student engagement and success: evaluating pedagogical practices and resources as conduits to enhancing student learning. Digital Transformation to enhance student learning: embedding digital… Read more » about Don’t forget to submit your abstract for the Fusion Learning Conference
Immersive technology and tourism
Learning Technologists from the FLIE team recently ran a session with students in BUBS looking at how immersive technologies are being used with tourism. Immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality are already being used in the industry to create interactive, engaging experiences which elicit emotional responses. We looked at some of the opportunities… Read more » about Immersive technology and tourism
MATLAB Grader – upcoming webinars
MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB (a programming and numeric computing platform) and Simulink (a block diagram environment used to design and simulate before moving to hardware), are running two webinars to introduce their MATLAB Grader tool. The webinars will demonstrate how to create interactive MATLAB course problems, automatically grade student work, provide immediate customized feedback,… Read more » about MATLAB Grader – upcoming webinars
Attend Our Humanising Education Workshops
As part of their commitment to enabling excellence and continuing improving the student experience, the Service Excellence Team at BU has organised four online Humanising Education workshops. They have invited academics from various universities to share their experience and knowledge of embedding a humanised practice with you: Workshop Presenter Date Time Humanising teaching one conversation… Read more » about Attend Our Humanising Education Workshops
Viewing ‘Draft’ assignment marks on Brightspace
We have had an ongoing issue where Turnitin assignment marks are not being displayed on the assignment pages in Brightspace that list student submissions and instead it just shows ‘refreshing…’ This makes it difficult to keep track of what has been marked and what marks have been awarded prior to mark release. This has been raised… Read more » about Viewing ‘Draft’ assignment marks on Brightspace
Do you want to present at the BU Fusion Learning Conference 2023?
We are delighted to accept presentation abstracts from BU academic and professional service staff for this year’s Fusion Learning Conference which is being held on 5th July 2023. The core themes for this year’s conference are: Student engagement and success: evaluating pedagogical practices and resources as conduits to enhancing student learning. Digital Transformation to enhance student learning: embedding digital… Read more » about Do you want to present at the BU Fusion Learning Conference 2023?
A Ghostwriter in the Machine
Join us for an exciting webinar, ‘A Ghostwriter in the Machine,’ led by Klaus Mundt and Mike Groves, discussing the recent years of Machine Translation (MT) and its emergence as a useful writing tool for students and academics whose first language is not English. However, there are limitations and implications that come with the use… Read more » about A Ghostwriter in the Machine
The Student View of Contract Cheating
The next talk in the Academic Integrity webinar series ‘The Student View of Contract Cheating’. Presented by Deborah Horrocks from Turnitin Join the webinar on Wednesday 10th May 2-3pm, and view the abstract below: “In 2022 Turnitin conducted a student survey asking about their attitudes to essay mills and contract cheating – it showed students… Read more » about The Student View of Contract Cheating
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