Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
A while ago a group of us in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences were tasked with developing an online Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health to complement BU’s well established MSc Public Health course provision. The aim of this development was to offer three units of the course to be studied online part-time. The… Read more » about PG Cert Public Health Online Course Development Team, HSS
Are you a student carer? If you are a student carer – providing unpaid support to someone who could not manage without your help – you are invited to take part in a photo-diary research project entitled ‘Students who bounce back’, led by Dr Jacqueline Priego, from BU’s Centre for Excellence in Learning. The project… Read more » about Students Who Bounce Back Project
The HEA has recently announced that the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme is open again for nominations; the deadline is July 28, 2016 (see below for details and links). CEL will coordinate a workshop for any interested individuals or teams to help prepare high quality nominations- the expectations are very high but we have two NTFs… Read more » about National Teaching Fellowship – Individual and Team Opportunities
On the day that the Higher Education White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy, is released we thought we would share with you our thoughts from the Teaching Excellence Framework workshop we facilitated as part of the CEL away day. This workshop aimed to raise awareness among CEL staff regarding the implications of the Green Paper (Fulfilling… Read more » about Teaching Excellence Framework: a public feelings workshop
Each week we tweet internal events and activities as well as news from the UK and global higher education spaces written by key organisations (eg HEA and Jisc) and established educationalists. In the last week, we have tweeted: In BU: The CEL and PCGE away days, developing your digital skills with the help of students,… Read more » about This week on the CEL Twitter feed
Professor Gail Thomas opened yesterday’s CEL AwayDay with a review of the work on CEL and the leading role and contribution made to Teaching and Learning at BU. Click here to watch the video.
A 5 minute update on work within the Employability theme from Anne Quinney from yesterday’s CEL AwayDay. Click here to view the video.
Image courtesy of Milton Keynes Council Two weeks’ ago our Fair Access Researchers, Clive, Ed, Lizzie and Alex went to Milton Keynes for the Open University’s international widening participation conference, Transforming Lives Through Life-Wide Learning. It was a really stimulating two days of papers, plenaries and workshops. And it was a real privilege to… Read more » about Open University Widening Participation Conference: reflections
Maggie Hutchings gave an engaging presentation yesterday to the CEL AwayDay on the topic of partnerships in learning. Click here to watch the video. 8 minutes 14 seconds.
The Student Development Awards Ceremony was held on 4th May 2016 in the Student Centre. Sonya Harvey (SDA coordinator) worked incredibly hard to ensure the evening was a great success and provided bubbly and canapés for all the attendees. A number of dignitaries were in attendance including The High Sheriff of Dorset – Sir Philip… Read more » about BU Student Development Award Ceremony
