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Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Dr Debbie Holley and David Biggins presented a paper, co-authored with Dr Marketa Zezulkova and George Evangelinos, at the 3rd EAI International Conference on e-Learning e-Education and Online Training (eLEOT) in Dublin between 31st August and 2nd September 2016. The paper was entitled Digital Competence and Capability Frameworks in the Context of Learning, Self-Development and… Read more » about Best paper award for CEL
As part of the Fair Access Research project we wanted to share with you news and data that has been making headlines over August. HEFCE published Differences in employment outcomes: Comparison of 2008-09 and 2010-11 first degree graduates. One of the most significant findings related to outcomes differences for black and minority ethnic graduates. The report… Read more » about Fair Access Research – news update
Building on the successful ‘roadshows’ that CEL delivered in the last academic year and thinking ahead to the start of the new academic year, CEL staff are happy to provide input on any of our three themes (innovative pedagogy, assessment and feedback – Anne Quinney; employability – Carly Lamont; and technology-enhanced learning – David Biggins… Read more » about Would you like CEL to provide input into your team or department awaydays?
A report published yesterday by QAA explores the growing threat to UK higher education from custom essay writing services, or ‘essay mills’. It looks at how these services operate, gives examples from their websites, and highlights the claims they make, in particular their guarantees of being ‘plagiarism free’. QAA was commissioned to carry out this… Read more » about Plagiarism in Higher Education – Custom essay writing services: an exploration and next steps for the UK higher education sector – a report from QAA
CEL attended a meeting of the Paramedic team on Monday to give a presentation on the use of Peerwise to support student learning and engagement. Peerwise is a free, online application, written by academics in New Zealand, that allows students to create questions that are answered by their peers. There is more information in the… Read more » about Using Peerwise with the Paramedic team
With the new semester approaching, Library and Learning Support have created an excellent page in the TEL Toolkit which explains the structure of a standard unit and provides links and PDFs of supporting material. This is really useful information to consider when preparing your units for semester 1 delivery. Click here to access the page. The… Read more » about What content can you add to myBU
The project was set up with Dr Jonathan Williams, the Physiotherapy BSc (Hons) Programme lead and Oliver Kohout from Loughborough University. It was designed to establish whether or not a Tibia-mounted accelerometer could detect the impact differences between footwear of varying design and bare foot running to reduce knee joint loading and prevent onset or… Read more » about Co-creation report: Can a tibial mounted accelerometer be used to detect the impact differences across different footwear during running?
‘Share a Coke’: The influences of content marketing on brand loyalty, by Bao Ngo My final year research project “‘Share a Coke’: The influences of content marketing on Brand Loyalty” aims to enrich our knowledge of the roles of content marketing in shaping the brand image of companies to improve the customer loyalty. This research… Read more » about Co-creation report: ‘Share a Coke’
Student satisfaction at Bournemouth University has risen by 3% in the independent 2016 National Student Survey (NSS) to 82% – the highest ever figure that BU has achieved since the NSS survey began in 2005. The national sector average has remained at 86%. The NSS, run by Ipsos MORI, surveys final year students across the… Read more » about BU NSS score rises to 82%
Social media ‘on the go’: An investigation into the generational gap a research project written by Harry Cutler-Smith, and co-authored with Dr Elvira Bolat. The project’s main aim was to explore the influence of mobile social media has on two different age groups, identify the differences and similarities and fill the gap within academic research…. Read more » about Co-creation report: Social media ‘on the go’
