Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
The new curricular units for 21/22 will be available on Brightspace to staff from 12th July. To help staff prepare for the coming academic year FLIE will be supporting Faculties with online sessions throughout July and September. More details to follow. Student access Students will have access to units for Semester 1/2/3 one week prior… Read more » about New curricular units on Brightspace
Provisional TeachBU submission dates are now available for the next academic year. Click here for details. Dr Martyn Polkinghorne Chair of the TeachBU Assessment Panel for HEA Applications
Join this webinar, run by LinkedIn Learning, which looks at how Covid-19 has disrupted higher education and how blended learning, social distancing, and lockdowns will effect student outcomes. Academic Success with LinkedIn 9th June 2021, 1-2pm The webinar will look at the successful strategies universities can adopt to ensure that students receive a high quality… Read more » about Academic success with LinkedIn – webinar
We have extended our deadline for the submission of posters to the Fusion Learning Conference: Innovation and Excellence in the pandemic. We want to showcase as many examples as we can of the innovative and excellent learning and teaching practices that took place during the pandemic, from both academic and professional service colleagues. The final deadline… Read more » about Fusion Learning Conference – extended deadline for posters
I’m delighted to confirm that the following colleagues in the Faculties have recently achieved HEA Fellowship from Advance HE after applying through TeachBU: Associate Fellow: Estella Pochin (BUBS) Hamed Hamzeh (FST) Fellow: Sara Sayer (FHSS) Senior Fellow: Dalia Elsheikh Diogo Montalvao (FST) Duncan Light (BUBS) Heidi Singleton (FHSS) Congratulations!!! Dr Martyn Polkinghorne Chair… Read more » about TeachBU Update – Colleagues Achieving HEA Fellowship
Our Learning Technologist drop-ins are continuing throughout June. We will be online every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11am to help answer any of your Brightspace and TEL-related queries and support you in the delivery of your online and blended pedagogies.. There’s no need to book, simply click on the link in the timetable on… Read more » about LT Drop-ins this June
Did you miss our recent workshops on uGrade? 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… Read more » about Self and Peer Assessment with uGrade – workshop resources
A reminder that you are invited to submit a poster to showcase your innovative and excellent learning and teaching practices during the pandemic for our Fusion Learning Conference: Innovation and Excellence in the pandemic. Please confirm your intention to submit a poster by w/c 31st May. The final deadline for poster submission is Monday 14th June. You… Read more » about Fusion Learning conference – call for Posters
If you are applying for HEA Fellowship this academic year via our TeachBU programme, then the final submission date has been revised and is now the 7th June 2021. Details about how to apply can be accessed here. Applications to TeachBU can be in the categories of Associate Fellow, Fellow or Senior Fellow. TeachBU will… Read more » about Are you Applying for HEA Fellowship?
Join Anne Quinney and Dai Hounsell, Visiting Professor in FLIE, as they continue their masterclasses linked to the theme of Assessment and Feedback. The next masterclass will focus on effective feedback. Join them online next week to find out more, share your own experiences and ask any questions. Effective Feedback – Wednesday 26th May 1-2pm Are… Read more » about Effective Feedback masterclass 26th May
