Debbie Holley went along to the stunning British Academy building in London for a Horizon 2020 briefing day about social science and research. Calls are already well documented, insert link, but keynote speaker Phillippe Keruafran, Deputy Head of Unit Research and Innovation, traveling from Brussels to give his talk, encouraged social scientists to look… Read more » about Horizon2020
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Fair Access Regulation and Fair Access Research
In a follow-up post to her thoughts about student loans, Hannah Arendt, and the limits of life, Dr Alex Wardrop discusses why an independent fair access regulator can help us tell stories about widening participation differently. “If we keep continue to speak the same language to each other, we will reproduce the same story. Begin… Read more » about Fair Access Regulation and Fair Access Research
Suggestions for the TEL/IT seminars in Semester 2?
CEL is scheduling at least 8 seminars/workshops in semester 2 on issues related to technology enhanced learning and IT in teaching and learning. We are looking to include topics such as social media, student engagement using Peerwise, use of the new presentation equipment and lecture video capture using panopto to mention but a few. If… Read more » about Suggestions for the TEL/IT seminars in Semester 2?
More Vision4Learning sessions scheduled
For the Vision4Learning project, we have scheduled additional sessions to allow staff more opportunity for involvement. The purpose of these sessions is to review the TEL Toolkit and we welcome as much feedback as possible to suggest enhancements before the site is built. The next drop in sessions are between 8am and 11am on: Monday… Read more » about More Vision4Learning sessions scheduled
CELebrating our students’ achievements
Graduation Ceremonies have been taking place all week CELebrating the fantastic achievements of our students. In particular, one student from the Faculty of Management was selected to participate in the 2015 series of The Apprentice. Jenny Garbis, a BA (Hons) Business Studies with Finance student, not only achieved a First in her degree but was… Read more » about CELebrating our students’ achievements
Call to academics to participate in flipped classroom resource bid
How often do you hear students saying ‘oh that was really boring’ about various lecture content, even though we, as lecturers, thought that was our best ever explanation of a challenging topic? The flipped classroom is one method of addressing undergraduate apathy towards lectures and traditional methods of teaching. The optimal two-way relationship is often… Read more » about Call to academics to participate in flipped classroom resource bid
A digital challenge for November!
Dear All, Colleagues from Hybrid Pedagogy have organised November as Gigi-writing month – and we are all invited to join in: http://www.digitalwritingmonth.com/home/ Here’s the invite: How Does One DigiWriMo? 1. There are no secrets to doing DigiWriMo, no right way and no wrong way to do it. Some people may write a novel using their… Read more » about A digital challenge for November!
Free data workshop: Los Angeles – some funding available – see below
Debbie Holley has been thinking about data this week, and shares a tip for keeping up-to-date with data issues, events, publications and lots more … Interested in data? The UKdataservice have an excellent JISCMAIL list – free to join, and there are are range of interesting opportunites, both in the UK and abroad. This caught… Read more » about Free data workshop: Los Angeles – some funding available – see below
Vision4Learning Drop In Sessions
The V4L drop in sessions over the next couple of months will focus on the plans for the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Toolkit and we are really keen to hear your views on how the toolkit is currently developing and feed in to how we can develop it further to support your needs. Please come… Read more » about Vision4Learning Drop In Sessions
Warm invitation to Women’s Academic Network (WAN) event
Women’s academic careers and motherhood Mutually exclusive? Mutually compatible? Lunchtime speaker panel discussion with refreshments Friday 20 November 12:00-14:00 TAG 22 We very much hope to see many of our WAN colleagues there – and being a family friendly outfit, please feel free to bring children or other relatives too if you are on care duties at that time…. Read more » about Warm invitation to Women’s Academic Network (WAN) event
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