SURE 2016 site is now accepting abstract submissions for next year’s conference.
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TEL-ve days of Christmas
Join this online course – a tool a day to improve your digital and teaching skills! 10 minutes a day maximum, and the chance to take part in this fun event – count down the 12 days of Christmas!
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion, new report November 2015
A new report suggests that things are much worse for the excluded, those whose benefits have been sanctioned and are in temporary accommodation or have been evicted. Read more in the Joseph Foundation Report
Student and staff co-creation projects
CEL is offering funding for ten student-led projects, co-created with academics. Taking part in a co-created project will help your students develop news skills and confidence, learn how to apply knowledge, inform their career decisions and increase employability. This is open to final year undergraduates and those interested will need identify a topic of relevance… Read more » about Student and staff co-creation projects
What does student engagement mean?
CEL were involved in a debate about the nature of engagement with a department in the Faculty of Management this afternoon. Before being able to tackle the subject of how to improve engagement, we needed to define what we mean by engagement. We looked at engagement from both the lecturer and student perspective and started… Read more » about What does student engagement mean?
Learning and Teaching Fellowship awards
The panel met today to review the applications for the Learning and Teaching Fellows. The decisions made, the results will be publicised soon.
Vision4Learning drop-in sessions next week
The next round of Vision4Learning drop-in sessions are scheduled for next week. 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: Wednesday 2nd December in CEL… Read more » about Vision4Learning drop-in sessions next week
CEL’s visit to Colombia: What’s in there for me?
As outlined in a previous blog post, CEL’s Jacqueline Priego was in Medellin, Colombia during the week commencing 9 November, to present at the VII Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences. While in Colombia, Jacqueline visited Universidad EAFIT, a BU Global partner since 2013. The engagement with EAFIT started with an international task… Read more » about CEL’s visit to Colombia: What’s in there for me?
Reflections on the PAL Leader Conference – November 2015
Having had a very stressful, tiring and trying summer/semester 1, this was the perfect antidote. For me, spending time with other staff members who understand the struggles of PAL regardless of size of the scheme or institution was so refreshing and made me feel optimistic about returning to work on Monday! Whilst overly a Leader… Read more » about Reflections on the PAL Leader Conference – November 2015
What to do about Bloom’s 2 sigma problem?
Benjamin Bloom reported a research result about educational effectiveness in the journal ‘Education researcher’ (1984). Bloom was looking at the performance of students and comparing conventional group tuition with mastery learning tuition and also with one to one tuition. The results broadly showed how mastery learning techniques improved the average performance by 1 standard deviation… Read more » about What to do about Bloom’s 2 sigma problem?
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