Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
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’
Third year adult nursing students were offered the opportunity to join the interview panels for the selection of candidates wishing to gain a place on the adult nursing programme at Bournemouth University. Ten volunteer students were recruited and attended a foundational training programme. Students committed to attending five interview sessions and joined an academic, a… Read more » about Co-creation report: 3rd Year Adult Student Nurses join the Adult Nursing Interview Panels
Bournemouth University Pre-Hospital and Emergency Care Conference 2016 (♯BUPECC2016) was the first of its kind and was held in Bournemouth House on the 18th June. A small committee, consisting of paramedic science students and programme lead Peter Phillips, planned the project. The concept was to hold an educational, student-led conference with the aim of bringing… Read more » about Co-creation report: BU Pre-Hospital and Emergency Care Conference 2016
Silver Clouds, Billy Kruger and Andy Warhol 1966. The Government grants for students from low-income backgrounds to help provide support with living costs while in higher education have been replaced by repayable student loans. Participation rates have been shown to vary according to whether or not a student received free school meals at the age of 15… Read more » about Widening Participation: reaching for hope and solidarity
The 42nd Association for Moral Education Annual Conference will be hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, USA, December 8 through 11, 2016 on the theme Civic engagement: a cultural revolution? Dr Marcellus Mbah of the Centre for Excellence in Learning at Bournemouth University has partly been funded by the organisers to present a paper… Read more » about Civic engagement: a cultural revolution?
