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Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
As we move into another period with the focus on online teaching and learning, a reminder of the resources available via the Me@BU link on the Brightspace homepage. A collaboration by staff from various teams across the university, the Online learning@BU section provides advice and resources to support students when studying from home and online…. Read more » about Online learning@BU
Mentimeter will be running two interactive webinars this January aimed at both beginners and more advanced users of Mentimeter. Join us to find out how Mentimeter can help you to bring engagement and interactivity to your online teaching in 2021. Get Started with Mentimeter – Wed 27th Jan 10am-11am During this webinar you will get… Read more » about Beginner and Advanced Mentimeter webinars – Wed 27th and Thu 28th Jan
Already during this academic year, I’m delighted to confirm that the following BU colleagues have been awarded HEA Fellowship via the TeachBU CPD route: Fellow: Catherine Gutmann Roberts – FST Orlanda Harvey – FMC Thomas Stoeckle – FMC Searchmore Muridzo – FMC Shovita Dhakal Adhikari – FHSS Associate Fellow Chloe Casey – FHSS Shaqaieq… Read more » about TeachBU Update – Faculty Colleagues Achieving HEA Fellowship
The FLIE team will be taking a well-earned break over Christmas but there are still lots of resources available to support you if you are looking at your planning 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… Read more » about Christmas Wishes from FLIE
Did you know you can share Mentimeter templates and themes with your colleagues? You might have a presentation template that is used by several members of the teaching team across your department, or you may have created a theme that your colleagues would like to utilise. Mentimeter’s new Groups functionality means you can now create… Read more » about Sharing templates and themes in Mentimeter
Mentimeter is undergoing planned maintenance on Saturday, December 26th from 09:00 – 10:30 am. It will not be possible to access www.mentimeter.com (to create and edit presentations) or www.menti.com (to access live presentations) during this time. Normal service will resume following the downtime. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Did you know that you can create and award badges in Brightspace? There’s a badge for it, too. Some research shows that students like them, and that they can improve student engagement and motivation (Roy and Clarke 2019). Badges can work well in formative assessment, for participation and to some extent for achievement or institutional… Read more » about Badges and awards – why?
If you missed our recent Faculty workshops on Monitoring engagement with Brightspace analytics, you can catch up with all the resources on the Workshops and Drop-ins page of the Brightspace Staff resources area. In the workshops, we demonstrated where you can find analytics reporting within your Brightspace unit and some of the benefits of utilising… Read more » about Brightspace analytic workshop resources
From the Monday 30 November 2020, student progress reports will be available for Academic Advisers in Brightspace to help inform conversations with students on their academic progress and engagement in their studies. The reports cover a student’s usage and engagement in Brightspace for each unit they are enrolled in which includes useful indicators like logins… Read more » about Student progress reporting for Academic Advisers
The PREP (Peer Reflection on Education Practice) process involves identification of a theme as part of your departmental AMER and this can be any aspect of education enhancement such as assessment, feedback, student voice etc. Some may link the PREP theme to their reflection based on results of NSS, MUSE etc. The peer observation process is… Read more » about Peer Reflection on Education Practice (PREP)
