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A big thank you to all our bloggers and subscribers in 2018 – we really valued all your efforts in growing our reach. We will continue to share the news from CEL and good practice from across both BU and wider sector, and in 2019 the ‘awesome blogger of the month’ will continue, please do… Read more » about Happy Christmas – and our blog returns Thursday 3 January
Top 12 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Impact Healthcare Artificial intelligence is poised to become a transformational force in healthcare. How will providers and patients benefit from the impact of AI-driven tools? AI offers a number of advantages over traditional analytics and clinical decision-making techniques. Learning algorithms can become more precise and accurate as they interact… Read more » about 12 Days of AI Healthcare impact innovations
Come and see and interact with the CEL touchscreen in the staff zone! Solve and view video puzzles, work through slide shows and play games.
During December come to the staff zone on Talbot Campus to interact with the CEL Touchscreen, for useful tips and guides for Brightspace, the Assessment and feedback toolkit, and more via video puzzles and interactive slide shows. The content will change though each of the weeks leading up to Christmas, so come and have a… Read more » about 12 Days of Christmas – CEL Touchscreen Showcase
Turnitin are working with a handful of Universities to develop software that may help to identify potentially suspect assignment submissions using forensic linguistics. Read the full BBC article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46530639
This week I visited Goldsmiths University of London to share some of Bournemouth University’s best practice in problem-based learning. It focused on action-based research and relied heavily on co-creation. Students were introduced to a form of scenario planning which utilises expert opinion to create plausible scenarios. The students were taking the MA in Event and… Read more » about ‘Tis the season for sharing … BU best practice
Come and see and interact with the CEL touchscreen in the staff zone! Solve and view video puzzles, work through slide shows and play games.
Manne Garon-Buffery, Placement Coordinator to Level 5 Design & Engineering students, shares her experience of using Lego for the first time. CEL has boxes of Lego for short term loan for teaching and training, please contact Curie Scott Level 5 Design & Engineering includes four cohorts totalling 190 students studying Product Design, Industrial Design, Design… Read more » about The use of Lego for an Assessment Centres Workshop
As part of the Service Excellence conference December 2018, the Innovation and Technology team would like to know what new or emerging technologies you are excited about using for teaching, learning and student engagement. Please put your suggestions and ideas in the comments section below.
Futurist Bernard Marr is predicting more hype around AI in 2019 as businesses and society increasingly realise its benefits and look to adopt it. AI will become more pervasive as it becomes a more trusted technology and will initially create more jobs than it replaces. Read the full article here.
