Global staff mobility, including training and teaching, leads to professional development and networking and brings great value to BU and our students, whilst offering invaluable international experience. We are pleased to announce that staff, both academic and professional support, can now apply for funds to support these activities through Erasmus+. Erasmus+ funds are a great… Read more » about Funds now available to support Global Staff Mobility: Erasmus+
News
Colleagues Please find below the link to an article ‘hot off the press’ published last week in Education Technology Insights Magazine: Special Edition on EdTech. This magazine is a comprehensive news platform that lobbies and seeks to influence educational institutions in terms of articulating, through ‘learning -from-peers’ the benefits of speeding up technological take-up for teaching and… Read more » about
12 Apps of Christmas
The Digital Education Unit at the University of Glasgow has pulled together 12 apps that are useful in teaching and learning for online and distance education. Starting on the 9th of December 2019 they will reveal one app per day for 12 consecutive working days. They’ve added some festive cheer by creating a different short… Read more » about 12 Apps of Christmas
Journal: Studies in Higher Education
Along with my colleagues Dr Geli Roushan (FLIE/MSI) and Helen O’Sullivan (MSI), and Dr Julia Taylor (Doctoral College), I am delighted to have our paper entitled “An Innovative Framework for Higher Education to Evaluate Learning Gain: A Case Study Based Upon the Discipline of Marketing” accepted for publication in the 3 Star journal “Studies… Read more » about Journal: Studies in Higher Education
Assessment and Feedback Toolkit
Have you seen the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit? FLIE’s Assessment and Feedback Toolkit provides resources for academic staff along with tools and strategies to align assessment and feedback practices with the BU Principles of Assessment Design Policy (6c). At BU we support the Higher Education Academy’s principle that teaching and learning in Higher Education can… Read more » about Assessment and Feedback Toolkit
Brightspace tools : Intelligent Agents
At the end of November, Sophie McGown Customer Success Manager at D2L, ran some sessions with BU staff providing a more detailed look at one of Brightspace’s most powerful tools; Intelligent Agents. Sophie shared some best practice and top tips before assisting staff in building and scheduling Intelligent Agents to run on their units. What… Read more » about Brightspace tools : Intelligent Agents
Winner of the CMC Best Paper Award for papers published in 2018: Student Cocreation
The winner of the CMC Best Paper Award for papers published in 2018 as been announced. The paper was based on a student dissertation. Denegri-Knott, J., Nixon, E., & Abraham, K. (2018). Politicising the study of sustainable living practices. Consumption Markets & Culture, 21(6), 554-573. There was a group of strong papers nominated for the… Read more » about Winner of the CMC Best Paper Award for papers published in 2018: Student Cocreation
An Introduction to Applying for HEA Fellowship
Key Information Aimed at: Colleagues who are interetsed in applying for Fellowship of the HEA Indicative Frequency: Twice per academic year Facilitated by: Dr Martyn Polkinghorne, TeachBU Cross-Faculty Lead Your Time Commitments: 1 hour workshop If you’re not sure where to start, or have questions around applying then attending an ‘Introductory’ session will be of benefit… Read more » about An Introduction to Applying for HEA Fellowship
Green screen – an easy way to create an impression…
At our recent research day, ‘Nurses today, tomorrow and the future’, our librarian Jose Lopez Blanco and I decided to give a future ‘feel’ to the day. Working with FLIE LTs Tracey Webb and Stephen Pyne, we used chroma keying (where a block of colour is replaced by an image or video) using a piece… Read more » about Green screen – an easy way to create an impression…
ALDinHE 2020: The Learning Development Conference
I’d like to introduce myself as the new co-chair of the Conference Working Group, and to invite you to submit a proposal for our 2020 conference in North Hampton. ALDinHE 2020: The Learning Development Conference University of Northampton 6th-8th April 2020 Join us in Northampton for three days of stimulating discussion and inspiring sessions! This… Read more » about ALDinHE 2020: The Learning Development Conference
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