apologies for cross posting, but some colleagues may be interested The Blended Learning Consortium is a growing partnership of 61 Colleges who pay in £5K per annum for development of over 700 hours of high quality interactive learning objects “for the sector by the sector” At the conference you will have the opportunity… Read more » about An invitation to the first Blended Learning Consortium Conference. “Creativity, Collaboration, Community and Co-development” June 30th in Bromsgrove.
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National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) – Preparation Workshop
Professor Stephen Tee, Dean of HSS and a National Teaching Fellow, will be leading a workshop for colleagues interested in applying for individual or team NTF status, this year or in the future. The session will be held on Wednesday June 1st at 3.00 pm in R704, Royal London house. All welcome.
13th PASCAL International Conference – Glasgow 2016
In 2012, while still doing my PhD, I attended my first international conference and this was on The role of HE in local and regional social and economic development. The conference took place in Brest, France from 29 – 31 October. I seems to have been one of very few students to have attended the… Read more » about 13th PASCAL International Conference – Glasgow 2016
Teach@BU
Obtaining a higher educational teaching qualification is an opportunity for both personal and organisational growth. It enables staff and the organisation to reflect back on their professional practice. Additionally, one of the BU 2018 KPIs is that 100% of academic staff should have either a recognised teaching qualification and/or a Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship status…. Read more » about Teach@BU
Festival of Learning: Working Together for Widening Participation
27th June 2016 14:00-16:00 Talbot Campus In the week that sees the publication of the White Paper and the Queen’s speech, issues of widening participation and education equity seem even more topical than ever. BU’s programme of Fair Access Research seeks to create a culture of widening participation through working and learning together. As part of BU’s Festival of… Read more » about Festival of Learning: Working Together for Widening Participation
Higher education White Paper: key points at a glance
Source: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/higher-education-white-paper-key-points-glance The government’s higher education White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy, was published on 16 May. Key proposals in the document include: Teaching Creating an Office for Students, merging the Office for Fair Access with the learning and teaching functions of the Higher Education Funding Council for England Retaining the proposed link between… Read more » about Higher education White Paper: key points at a glance
PG Cert Public Health Online Course Development Team, HSS
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
Students Who Bounce Back Project
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
National Teaching Fellowship – Individual and Team Opportunities
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
Teaching Excellence Framework: a public feelings workshop
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