Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Annie East, lecturer in the Department of Media Production has been shortlisted for a national teaching and learning award for her sustainability work: Greening the screen; facing the challenge of embedding education for sustainable development into higher education media production courses An extract from the EAUC Press release shows the significance of this achievement: This… Read more » about Bournemouth’s Annie East shortlisted for National Green Gown award
“…If the college don’t push it forward, how are people going to get to know each other, you just don’t…” Helen Pokorny (University of Westminster, Debbie Holley, Bournemouth University and Suzanne Kane, Salford University “…If the college don’t push it forward, how are people going to get to know each other, you just don’t…” from… Read more » about Generation TEF: Teaching in spotlight – presentation on BME students, their travels and thoughts for HEI policy
Ellie Harrison reports on her co-creation project ‘Be on topic, be on brand, be on time: Exploring whether the content is king in driving user engagement in the context of television brands’ with Elvira Bolat as her academic partner: When you think of a dissertation, the first thing that comes to mind is “how am I… Read more » about Report on a student led co-creation project: An exploration into whether the content is king in driving user engagement in the context of television brands
Zoe Furness reports on her co-creation project ‘Libertad’ with Natasha Jones and Susan Sloan as student and academic partners respectively: The Research Last summer I attended the Communication Summer Academy at Universidad de Las Americas in Ecuador with a group of students from Bournemouth University. An opportunity where students can meet with internationally renowned lecturers, study… Read more » about Report on a student led co-creation project: ‘Libertad’ – a Native Quechua Oral Story from Ecuador
Megan Mayers reports on her co-creation project ‘BU Student Law Review’ with Professor Dinusha Mendis as academic partner: This report will provide a brief outline of the progress made in the above project. It will highlight an overview of the aims and how we looked to achieve these. It will also unveil the hurdles faced along… Read more » about Report on a student led co-creation project: BU Law Review
Photo (L-R): Neil Bottomley (Principal .NET Developer, IT Services) and Tom Ormerod (IT Project Manager, Vision4Learning) Preparation for the September 2017 launch of BU’s new virtual learning environment, Brightspace, continues to steam ahead from both a technical and training perspective. Over 350 academic and administrative staff have now received Brightspace training, with further sessions for… Read more » about Building Brightspace: an update from behind-the-scenes
Louis Moore reports on his co-creation project ‘Understanding Suicide: What role does social media play?’ with Dr Ann Luce as academic partner: At the beginning of this project, I wondered how I might go about researching into suicide. As my project was looking into whether social media has a role to play in suicide, I thought… Read more » about Understanding Suicide: What role does social media play? – Report from a student led co-creation project
Chelsea Ifunanya Nwasike reports on her co-creation project ‘Genetics for the public’ with Dr. Kevin McGhee as academic partner: Very early on during the creation of the project, On the 21st and 22nd of February, I filmed the workshop organised by Jehannine Austin, Kevin McGhee and team for genetic counsellors, willing to learn and expand their… Read more » about A student led co-creation project report: Genetics for the public
Felix Marrington-Reeve reports on his co-creation project ‘Splash Dance’ with Quentin Corker-Marin and Dr. Reza Yousefzadeh as student and academic partners respectively: Aims ● To produce relatively high quality motion capture ● To add a sense of “human” presence to the piece through the camera, as if it had been “shot” by a production team ● To create… Read more » about A report from a student led co-creation project: Splash Dance
Joshua Thomas-Houlker reports on his co-creation Pond Simulator project with Edina Morris and Will Malkin as student partners and Vicky Isley and Valery Adzhiev as academic partners: At the start of this project I conducted primary and secondary research. I went online and researched games similar to Water Edge and came across 3 different games that stood… Read more » about A report from a student led co-creation project: Pond Simulator
