Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
It has been a busy couple of days on Twitter. Here are 10 of the education stories you may have missed: 6 ideologies that influence educator’s decisions How jobs will differ in the next 5 years The unemployment rate for graduates is less than half that of non-graduates Information on BU’s Global Talent Programme 7… Read more » about Items you might have missed in the last 2 days on the CEL Twitter feed
The Centre for Excellence in Learning is pleased to invite applications for its Student-Led Co-creation Projects. The co-creation project funds student-led, collaborative projects delivering co-created outputs between an academic and a student. Whether that’s a paper, presentation or product, the output is important. Projects don’t have to form part of a particular unit of a curriculum and it… Read more » about Call for student-led co-creation project proposals – 25 Nov 16
Dr James Gavin from the Department of Sport and Physical Activity will be delivering an interactive CEL workshop on Wednesday 5th October in PG30a at 13:00. Dr Gavin’s research suggests motivation is critical for academic learning and achievement, and particularly student engagement in the first year at university. Based upon his recent paper, this workshop… Read more » about Interactive Employability Workshop – 5th October in PG30a 13:00 – 14:30 Placement Experience and Learning Motivations in HE
Colleagues, Whther you are scheduled to teach in the new Fusion building or just want to find out more about using the technology in there for open days, seminars or events you may be running in future, these drop-in sessions are for you! Please come along and find out more! AV Tutorial sessions in FB1… Read more » about Find out about our new Fusion Building presentation equipment – drop in sessions for interested staff 7th October
Many apologies for cross posting but this may be of interest to some colleagues: Over the past few years the Faculty of Media and Communication has been working with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s top HEI. We are co-organising the Cross cultural Communication Conference to be hosted in Bangkok Jan 2017. It would be great if a number… Read more » about Cross-Cultural Communication Conference 2017
Jo Ingold and Mark Monaghan at LSE have researched the complex relationship between evidence and policy development. The authors seek to move the conversation about evidence-based policymaking towards a more nuanced understand that sees policy development “as fluid, dynamic and continually re-constituting, rather than a linear or rational ‘transfer’ process”. What emerges from their research is an… Read more » about Translating evidence into policy: LSE Research
At this time in the academic year, you can have many units listed in myBU and it can be more difficult to find the unit you are looking for. It is very easy to display your units in blocks by academic years as in this example: It takes 10 seconds to do this. To learn… Read more » about Viewing your units in myBU by academic year
The GTP is about helping students to develop and evidence the attributes they need to succeed in today’s global workplace. The GTP brings together BU’s central extra-curricular employability offer under one banner subsuming the Student Development Award and Post-Graduate Development Award. On this page you will find out a bit more about the programme, what… Read more » about New for 2016/17, the Global Talent Programme (GTP)
With a new building and a new semester, it is a great opportunity to reflect on our teaching practice. CEL is supporting staff across the university to ‘try something different‘ this year to enhance their teaching and professional practice. One of the initiatives within this campaign is a BU-wide scheme called ‘iInnovate‘ where academic staff… Read more » about Schedule of CEL’s ‘iInnovate’ workshops in semester 1
For the last few weeks we have be trialling a virtual classroom environment which uses software provided by Blackboard. The application is called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual, online spaces to which you can invite up to 100 students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PDFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. … Read more » about The virtual classroom trial
