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Do you have a new member of staff in your team who is unfamiliar with Brightspace? or would you like a refresher on some of Brightspace’s functionality? Brightspace is BU’s Virtual Learning Environment and it’s the key platform for students to access learning materials and online activities to support their study. Navigating and understanding Brightspace… Read more » about Brightspace videos for new starters
As everyone takes a well-earned break over Christmas, just a reminder of the resources available to support you as you plan for Semester 2. If you’re looking for ideas and inspiration, have a look at our Good Practice area. You’ll find good practice tips and examples on all areas of teaching and learning from FLIE and… Read more » about Happy Holidays from FLIE
Tales of the Unexpected: Traps and Pitfalls in Academic Integrity This series of online seminars led by experts from around the world and hosted by Bournemouth University continues in the new year. An increase in academic misconduct has been evidenced across the global HE sector and more recently in UK HE. The pandemic has exacerbated… Read more » about Academic Integrity webinars continue in 2023
From doorbells to diagnostics the use of 360° cameras, panoramic and omnidirectional footage has become commonplace for most people in 2022. Even before students embark on their educational journey at here at Bournemouth university, they may be using 360° tools and apps such as Google Maps simply to navigate to Bournemouth itself or by exploring… Read more » about 360° Capture in Education
I’m delighted to confirm that the following colleagues have recently achieved HEA Fellowship from Advance HE after applying through TeachBU: Associate Fellow: Joanna Wells; Yutaka Matsubayashi. Fellow: Agata Wezyk; Joseph McMullen; Lauren Peter; Matthew Armstrong; Shayan Bahadori; Ying Liu. Senior Fellow: Pramod Raj Regmi; Phil Wilkinson. Congratulations!!! Dr Martyn Polkinghorne Chair of the TeachBU Assessment… Read more » about TeachBU Update – Colleagues Achieving HEA Fellowship
Louise Oliver and her team have been working on a series of gamified learning experiences, with assistance from some of the Learning Technologists, so we took the opportunity to ask her about some of her work in this area of innovative pedagogy. The latest concept was an immersive murder mystery learning scenario where each character… Read more » about In conversation with Louise Oliver
FLIE is offering a series of workshops and drop-ins to better enable you to prepare for your delivery and assessment in Semester 2. If you’re teaching in Semester 2, please take the opportunity to come together as a teaching team, or even at programme level or department level, to align your ideas for promoting consistency across your… Read more » about Unit preparation for Semester 2
We hope you’ve been enjoying the speakers so far in our ‘Tales of the Unexpected: Traps and Pitfalls in Academic Integrity’ webinar series. This programme of online seminars is led by experts from around the world and hosted by Bournemouth University. If you registered for a session you’ll receive a copy of the slides and… Read more » about Academic Integrity webinar series – recordings and slides
Closing part 1 of the Academic Integrity webinar series is Dr Irene Glendinning with an overview of the current and future threats to academic integrity and asking how we adapt policies and procedures? Join the webinar on Wednesday 14th December 12-1pm, and view the abstract below. “No educational institution anywhere in the world has yet… Read more » about Threats to Academic Integrity & How to Address Them
Dr Guy Curtis, recently interviewed by ABC News24 about student cheating (watch the interview), leads the next talk in the online webinar series on Academic Integrity. Taking place on Wednesday 13th December 12-1pm, he explores the psychological impacts of the possibility of reward against a sense of threat in the realm of academic misconduct. Read… Read more » about Psychological Perspectives on Academic Misconduct
