Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Over the years this has been a popular request in the Brightspace user community and now ‘pinning announcements to the top’ is finally available on the platform. So whether it is an important message that you want to prioritise permanently, or just have a prominent welcome message for the first few weeks, you can now… Read more » about Pin announcements ‘to top’ in Brightspace
Are you new to Mentimeter? Would you like some help getting started with your first presentation? Mentimeter is an online polling tool which can add an interactive element to your teaching sessions. Question types include Multiple Choice, Ranking, Scales, Word Cloud, Open Ended, and many more. Mentimeter are running an interactive webinar on Wednesday 6th… Read more » about Introducing Mentimeter to Increase Student Engagement – Wed 6th Sep
Brightspace units for 2023/24 became available to staff on 6th July. Students will have access to units for Semester 1/2/3 one week prior to the start of Semester 1, for the majority of programmes this will be 11th September. For the coming academic year we are moving to the Lessons (v1) content layout for all new units, to… Read more » about Brightspace Lessons content experience workshops
This summer FLIE were delighted to host our third Fusion Learning Conference and we’ve now pulled together all the conference resources from the past three years into one place. So you can check out the recordings of our keynote speakers, revisit their presentation slides, watch colleagues present their PechaKuchas, and browse all the poster submissions…. Read more » about Fusion Learning Conference – resources site
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 3 webinars on modelling and simulating with Simulink, introducing AI as it relates to MATLAB and virtual labs for teaching and engineering. Start time… Read more » about Teaching Computation Made Easy, with MATLAB – upcoming webinars
Have you thought about using Linkedin Learning for your own professional development? Adam Wright, Demonstrator in Electronics in the Faculty of Science and Technology shares his experience on how using LinkedIn Learning in his teaching practice has been a game-changer for him. Watch here as Adam describes how LIL content can enhance curriculum teaching and… Read more » about Using Linkedin Learning for your professional development
At the recent Fusion Learning Conference, FLIE got the chance to prototype our digital escape room. Our goal was to showcase the various tools and technologies available to staff at BU, inspiring them to create their own escape rooms or immersive learning scenarios. The aim was to demonstrate the capabilities of the tools while keeping… Read more » about Escape Room – Fusion Learning Conference
Brightspace units for 2023/24 became available to staff on 6th July. Students will have access to units for Semester 1/2/3 one week prior to the start of Semester 1, for the majority of programmes this will be 11th September. For the coming academic year we are moving to the Lessons (v1) content layout for all new units, to… Read more » about Building your units for AY 23/24
I’m delighted to confirm that the following colleagues at BU have recently achieved fellowship from Advance HE after applying through TeachBU: Associate: Mike Scott Fellow: Abigail Emelonye Daniela Mela Hande Turkoglu Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Melissa Toups Serkan Aktay Suelen Carls Yasser Abuali Senior Fellow: Debora Almeida Jonny Branney Melanie Stockton-Brown Sharon Waight Sue Baron… Read more » about TeachBU Update – Colleagues Achieving Fellowship
Thank you to everyone who contributed to make our Fusion Learning Conference such a success last week! We had 66 submissions from BU academics, professional staff, students and SUBU. There were 25 posters on display and 41 Pecha Kucha style presentations. ‘the Pecha Kuchas were brilliant and great to see how all of the presenters… Read more » about It’s a wrap! Fusion Learning Conference 2023
