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Successful Re-Accreditation for TeachBU: Update on HEA Fellowships

BU’s TeachBU programme has been successfully re-accredited for the next 4 years. This means that BU will be able to continue to offer Associate Fellow, Fellow and Senior Fellow awards based upon CPD applications received. There will be some changes in the new programme including modified forms, guidance and process, and more details on these… Read more » about Successful Re-Accreditation for TeachBU: Update on HEA Fellowships

TeachBU Update – Faculty and Professional Service Colleagues Achieving HEA Fellowship

I’m delighted to confirm that the following colleagues in the Faculties and Professional Services have recently achieved HEA Fellowship via the TeachBU CPD route: Associate Fellow: Giulia Levi Lara Christ Fellow: Alexandra Alberda Dayle Childs Gillian Glasgow James Palfreman-Kay Jason Hallett Luke Nwibo Eda Maddy Greville-Harris Miriam Bray Peter Bloomer Reena Vijayakumaran Rosslyn Dray Sarah Buchan… Read more » about TeachBU Update – Faculty and Professional Service Colleagues Achieving HEA Fellowship

FLIE Summer School

FLIE Summer School unit on Brightspace

The Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence (FLIE) is here to support you in the design, delivery and evaluation of excellent and innovative education practice across BU. As part of our ongoing support, we have designed a unit on Brightspace to assist academic staff over the summer with building their units for the 20/21… Read more » about FLIE Summer School

Unit preparation and quicklinks in Brightspace

As a part of some of the improved features that have been applied to taught units in Brightspace, which include the new Updates widget and Unit overview widget, we have needed to remove the quicklinks widget to keep the unit homepages from becoming too busy. The quicklinks widget provided links and guidance for adding staff… Read more » about Unit preparation and quicklinks in Brightspace

LT online drop ins during August

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Further to our usual day-to-day support, Learning Technologists will continue to be online at 11am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in August. These sessions will be run via Zoom so make sure you are accessing via your Bournemouth University Zoom account. (Contact IT Services directly if you there are any issues with your Zoom account). Simply… Read more » about LT online drop ins during August

New curricular units now available on Brightspace

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The new curricular units for 2020/21 are now available on Brightspace for staff. Students will access the 2020/21 units one week prior to the start of semester one, for the majority of programmes this will be 14 September. To help staff prepare for the coming academic year FLIE will be supporting Faculties with online sessions… Read more » about New curricular units now available on Brightspace

New curricular units and updates to Brightspace

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The new curricular units for 20/21 will be available on Brightspace to staff from 13th July. Students will access units one week prior to the start of Semester 1, for the majority of programmes this will be 14th September*. To help staff prepare for the coming academic year FLIE will be supporting Faculties with online… Read more » about New curricular units and updates to Brightspace

LT online drop ins during July

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Further to our usual day-to-day support, Learning Technologists will continue to be online at 11am every weekday in July. We’re here to help colleagues with any enquiries around the use of Brightspace and other TEL tools. Simply click on the link in the table below between 11-11.30am to speak ‘face-to-face’ with an LT and we’ll… Read more » about LT online drop ins during July

Opportunity to shape the future development of the Brightspace assessment tools

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As part of the product development process at D2L, they regularly consult with clients to inform their product decisions. With enhancements to the assessment tools scheduled for the next wave of development, D2L are currently looking for staff who would be interested in participating in structured research sessions to help shape the platform going forward…. Read more » about Opportunity to shape the future development of the Brightspace assessment tools

CEMP Workshop: Doing Education On Screen

Learning from Research Time: Jun 17, 2020 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM This online event led by the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) will share findings and best practice from research into learning in virtual spaces. It is open to all BU staff and will offer a supportive space for discussing how we… Read more » about CEMP Workshop: Doing Education On Screen