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Dear colleagues, We’re currently taking applications for our next PAL Placement Student – a 13-month placement opportunity working with the Central PAL Team.The details are below including benefits, testimonials from our previous PAL Placement Students and more info on the role including job description, main responsibilities and how to apply. It would be great if… Read more » about PAL Placement Student opportunity – please share!
Next Monday we’re continuing with the webinar series on AcademicIntegrity after a long pause due to the industrial strike action. Led by Lynn Cliplef, Mitchell Hengen, Caitlin Munn and Josh Seeland, the talk will offer an engaging insight into working examples of how to build a culture of Academic Integrity at your institution. This is… Read more » about Slow & Steady: Establishing an Institutional Culture of Academic Integrity
Urgent maintenance needs to be completed for the JISC Learning Analytics service on Wednesday 08/03/23 from 16:30 to 16:55. During this time the service will be unavailable, this will impact the following activities: Access to the platform to view reports Access to generate the Checkin code to take attendance Student attendance Checkin The timing of this… Read more » about JISC Learning Analytics – System unavailable Wednesday 8 March 16:30-16:55
Are you a current PGR supervisor, or possibly interested in becoming one? Did you know in addition to supporting PGRs, the Doctoral College also have an institutional wide remit for supervisor development and support? As part of the ongoing suite of training and development, offered in conjunction with the Faculties, which includes new supervisor training,… Read more » about BRAND NEW: The SnapShot!
Mentimeter Advanced Features for Educators webinar Mentimeter are running a new series of webinars aimed specifically at their campus community. Look out for these webinars which will run regularly at the beginning and mid-way point of each semester. The first webinar in the series is on Thursday 30th March 14.00 (BST). Learn from fellow educators… Read more » about Mentimeter webinar for Educators – 30th March
Our Academic Integrity webinar series brought to you by FLIE and the FMC Learning Development Team in association with ALDinHE continues this March. All sessions are running online via Zoom. Sign up via the FLIE Eventbrite page or using the links below. Alternatively, BU staff can simply join on the day and time by clicking on… Read more » about Academic Integrity webinars this March
We’ve recently added a series of template slides to Mentimeter to help you easily incorporate Mentimeter polls and questions into your teaching, and add an interactive element to your sessions. You can choose to add the template, then amend or edit the slides so they suit your own purposes. What templates are available? Ice breaker… Read more » about Template slides for your Mentimeter presentations
A common concern of students working on group assessments is being assigned one mark for all members, regardless of the individual levels of contribution. By using uGrade, students can peer assess each member of the group’s contribution to the group work and then each student receives an adjusted mark which reflects that contribution rating. What… Read more » about uGrade for student self and peer assessment
If you are thinking about applying for HEA fellowship in the Associate Fellow, Fellow or Senior Fellow categories, then you may wish to be added to the TeachBU mailing list so that you can hear about training events, changes to applications dates, etc. If so, then please email TeachBU@bournemouth.ac.uk to let us know. Dr Martyn… Read more » about Thinking About Applying for HEA Fellowship?
Brightspace’s quiz functionality is a really useful tool for running regular formative quizzes on your unit, helping to reinforce key learning points and aiding students in checking their understanding. The quiz tool also lends itself to promoting learning through retrieval learning or retrieval practice. What is retrieval practice? Research shows that learning occurs not just… Read more » about Formative quizzes and retrieval practice
