Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Say hello to hybrid! Wednesday 16 March 13:00-14:00 This webinar from LinkedIn Learning looks at how institutions across Europe, Middle East and Africa are leveraging LinkedIn Learning to adapt to new hybrid models of delivery or shift from remote back to in-person learning, for both students and staff. It will discuss strategy, promotion and best… Read more » about LinkedIn Learning academic webinar
Looking for case studies ideas for your Advance HE Fellowship application? The lunchtime Education Enhancement workshops are a low stake investment in your professional development. Wednesday 9th March 12:00-13:00. Education Enhancement Workshop. Previous sessions on the Higher Education: Inclusion, Equity and Social Justice introduced the Equity Compass and in particular how approaches to learning can… Read more » about This week – Education Enhancement Workshops
We are expanding the pool of TeachBU Mentors and TeachBU Assessors. We are therefore seeking Expressions of Interest from interested and eligible staff. To be eligible you must be currently employed at BU, and be a Senior HEA Fellow gained through our TeachBU programme. Eligible staff may be from Faculties or from the Professional Services…. Read more » about TeachBU Mentors & TeachBU Assessors
Learning on Screen, the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council are adding to their digital television archive. From this January 2022 the resources on Box of Broadcasts (BOB), the on demand TV and Radio service for education, are being updated with television transmissions from the BBC going back to the post-war period. These… Read more » about Box of Broadcasts Television Archives
BU’s Race Equality Charter (REC) Self-Assessment team have launched a survey for all staff and students to understand how they perceive and experience equality, diversity and inclusion. The survey only takes a few minutes to complete and the data is imperative to inform our institutional self-evaluation process and forms part of our REC application. You… Read more » about Help in our commitment to inclusivity and diversity
Colleagues, The University of Kent run a nationally influential Digital Education Webinar series, and its founder, Dr Phil Anthony of the University’s E-Learning Team was awarded the title of Learning Technologist of the Year 2021 by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). This prestigious international prize, judged by an expert panel including leading scholars in digital education, recognises excellent practice and… Read more » about FLIE staff present at ‘Pedagogy and Practice when teaching and learning online’ national webinar
uGrade is BU’s name for our online peer and self-assessment system called WebPA, a product of Loughborough University and the University of Hull. uGrade is open source, locally hosted and integrated with Brightspace. It allows groups of students to mark each other’s (and their own) participation in group work against set criteria. uGrade uses an algorithm to… Read more » about Updated guidance for uGrade
Long ago and far away (well 1989*) the notion of academic tribes entered the discourse around what universities are for, what academics do and what counts as teaching and learning in Higher Education. There is evidence that some territories (aka disciplines and fields) have a less active pedagogical research tradition and less emphasis on publishing… Read more » about What do we have in common? Education research and discipline-based signature pedagogies research.
Mindscape Commons virtual reality and interactive video content for supporting mental health teaching is now available to HE institutions via a Jisc agreement. The resources allows future counsellors, social workers, and psychologists to explore a variety of mental health experiences and to help students build empathy and develop critical clinical skills in a safe and… Read more » about Mindscape Commons virtual reality (VR) resource for teaching mental health
Mentimeter presentations can be easily shared directly with participants via the browser, by simply sharing the Mentimeter screen as and when you want to run your interactive activity. There are also a few options for integrating Mentimeter presentations with your slides, for example by: creating your presentation entirely in Mentimeter by using the Content slides… Read more » about New Mentimeter Add-in for PowerPoint
