Colleagues, some of you will remember Pete’s amazing keynote for us at CELebrate 2016. ==== LSE has been awarded with the Campus Technology Teaching and Innovation Award (see pg30) for their innovative work on the Constitution UK project which ran in early 2015. Constitution UK was a collaborative project that aimed to crowdsource and hack the UK constitution within… Read more » about Peter Bryants’ team win technology award
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A visit to the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Cape Town
I was fortunate yesterday to be able to spend a morning in the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CILT – with a soft C as in CEL) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). UCT is one of Africa’s premier universities with a global reputation. UCT have some 27,000 students so are 50%… Read more » about A visit to the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Cape Town
Competition winners announced for embedding sustainable development within the curriculum at BU
The role of universities in contributing to a sustainable future has been quite clear since Agenda 21 – our shared prosperity is at risk if we do not find more sustainable ways of living and working. Universities have an important role to play through research, developing a greener campus, in the community and through the… Read more » about Competition winners announced for embedding sustainable development within the curriculum at BU
Working Together for Widening Participation
Thank you to everyone who came to the Fair Access Research workshop, Visible Students/Invisible Needs on Monday 11th July. It was really powerful and humbling to hear from students about their experiences of university — the positive and the negative. Working with students and Students’ Unions is so important for those working to transform higher… Read more » about Working Together for Widening Participation
New publication by Dr. James Gavin: Placement Experience in Higher Education
New publication by Dr. James Gavin: Placement Experience in Higher Education Dr James Gavin is an Early-Career Academic in Exercise Science, has just published a paper on: ‘Placement experience and learning motivations in higher education: A comparison between practical- and study-based programmes’ in the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education. James said, “Based upon… Read more » about New publication by Dr. James Gavin: Placement Experience in Higher Education
Organisational Learning and Widening Participation
The core ethos of BU’s Fair Access Research programme is that by working and learning together for widening participation we , as an institution and a sector, can better support marginalised people to access and succeed in higher education. We want to find out more about how widening participation is being learnt in the different institutions… Read more » about Organisational Learning and Widening Participation
This week on the CEL Twitter feed
CEL’s Twitter account is called cel_bu It has been a busy week on Twitter, especially since that result was announced on Friday. Some of the stories you may have missed on Twitter: CEL’s presence in the Bournemouth Gardens for the Festival of Learning on Sunday Showcasing research with undergraduate Research Assistants Widening participation insights at… Read more » about This week on the CEL Twitter feed
Call for Workshop Presentations: ‘Making the links: New directions for social researchers’
Call for Workshop Presentations, Social Research Association 2016 Annual Conference The holiday season is upon us and with just over 5 weeks until the deadline, we’re looking forward to receiving your submissions for the SRA Annual conference: ‘Making the links: New directions for social researchers’ Now more than ever, social researchers need to build strong… Read more » about Call for Workshop Presentations: ‘Making the links: New directions for social researchers’
International students’ guide to assessment and feedback methods, procedures and practice
Dr Milena Bobeva and her team provide an update on a project titled “International students’ guide to assessment and feedback methods, procedures and practice”. The project which was supported by the CEL Fusion Investment Fund explores the experiences of international students with assessment and feedback procedures at Bournemouth University. The research team behind this project consists of students and… Read more » about International students’ guide to assessment and feedback methods, procedures and practice
Aerial shots of FB1
The Fusion Building has landed! Local company Evoque Creative Video filming with a drone inside the brand new FB1 building this morning. Keep an eye out on the CEL blog to see the end results…
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