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
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
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
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
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
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?
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 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
A potentially controversial topic in the discourse of our Academic Integrity webinar series, ‘Toward a Continuum of Academic Misconduct’ is led by Professor Bruce Macfarlane, introducing the ways in which the attitude toward academic integrity has blurred lines in the debate on what constitutes misconduct. Join the webinar on Wednesday 2nd May 12-1pm, and view… Read more » about Towards a Continuum of Academic Misconduct
MathWorks is 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). BU has a campus-wide licence for these tools making them available to all staff and students. MathWorks is hosting a Teaching with Virtual Labs in Simulink webinar for… Read more » about MathWorks webinar 10th May 2pm
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