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Pedagogy: Blended learning

This post supports and is aligned to the TEL Toolkit pedagogy. Its purpose is to be a focus point for comments, suggestions, case studies, research and ultimately a community of practice for staff who have an interest in this area. We welcome your feedback and comments on this pedagogy in teaching and learning.

Hurry –Erasmus funds available for staff mobility for a limited time only!

 This is a reminder that there are 3 weeks left to make your application for Erasmus Staff Mobility Funding! You may recall the blogpost released last week which outlined that we have funding left for training and teaching at other European institutions and organisations. If you are thinking about submitting an application but you aren’t… Read more » about Hurry –Erasmus funds available for staff mobility for a limited time only!

CEL Education Research Report – January 2016

The CEL Education Research Report highlights research activities occurring in CEL. It contains updates from members of staff who are doing education related research and producing outputs which can feature under UoA25. Our intention is to continue the production of this periodic report to highlight milestones and celebrate research outputs within CEL. In order to be included… Read more » about CEL Education Research Report – January 2016

TEL Toolkit launch yesterday and events on 4th & 5th Feb

We were delighted to launch the TEL Toolkit yesterday in the Atrium at Poole House.  We welcomed about 50 members of staff to the stand over the two hour period. The reaction of those who saw the Toolkit was very positive. Susanne Clarke, one of our early adopters. We have two more launch events in… Read more » about TEL Toolkit launch yesterday and events on 4th & 5th Feb

Follow CEL on Twitter

Did you know that CEL tweets news on learning and teaching relevant to BU staff?  Internal events and activities as well as news from the higher education sphere. Follow us at www.twitter.com/cel_bu If you tweet on teaching and leaning, don’t forget to include cel_bu in your message.

The BU TEL vision video and toolkit launch next week

Click on the image to view the BU TEL Vision video We are delighted to announce the launch of BU’s TEL Toolkit. The toolkit – created by BU staff, for BU staff – has been developed to support you in the application of TEL, including information on ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘who’ to approach for more… Read more » about The BU TEL vision video and toolkit launch next week

Business Emotional Intelligence

Business Emotional Intelligence: The way to perform better and achieve more Paul Miller from The Mental Muscle Company delivered an upbeat and engaging talk to a local CIPD meeting last Thursday evening at the EBC. Paul discussed the benefits of using the power of Emotional Intelligence (EI) to enable organisations to gain competitive advantage by… Read more » about Business Emotional Intelligence

Education for Sustainable Development – and could you consider Fairtrade?

In the next few weeks, Professor Chris Shiel will be sending out a call for case studies (it’s going to be a competition with prizes) to gather case studies of approaches used at BU to develop the knowledge, skills and competences to address the need for sustainable development. Chris will be asking staff to illustrate… Read more » about Education for Sustainable Development – and could you consider Fairtrade?