Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
As a major player in the cloud infrastructure market, Microsoft is keen on figuring out better ways to store and power its machinery. To that end, it’s now deployed a data center on the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The idea is part of Project Natick, an initiative to identify environmentally sustainable ways of running large-scale… Read more » about Microsoft just dropped 864 servers into the sea to run an underwater data center
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrate2018-symposium-teaching-technology-and-the-tef-tickets-45558049352 In this year’s CELebrate symposium, we are convening a range of different opportunities to work with staff in thinking about approaches to large group teaching, learning and assessment. Our Keynote is from Sarah Knight (Jisc Digital Futures directorate) speaking on “How are students’ expectations and experiences of their digital environment changing?” We will be… Read more » about CELebrate: June 13th! Sign up now!!
Start your summer by unleashing your creativity. Join us for two ‘creative classroom’ events with an award winning author and a multi-award winning singer/song writer. Leadership, Strategy and Organisations may not be the obvious department to promote creativity, but we recognise the role of creativity in a modern workplace. There is a growing belief that… Read more » about Creative Classroom Events
A Scottish colleague forwarded me this report from a conference – and I spotted BUs own Michelle Morgan featured talking about enhancing the student experience. The full post is here: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/advance-he-scotland-and-uws-retention-symposium-april-2018 == extract from Advance HE blog site: Michelle Morgan, Associate Dean for Student Experience at Bournemouth University, opened the event with a keynote titled… Read more » about Advance HE Scotland and UWS – Retention Symposium April 2018
On May 17th Dr Jenny Hall from CEL and the Centre for Qualitative Research presented a keynote at the joint 6th European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and health and 5th International Conference of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality. The conference brought together clinicians, theologians, researchers and healthcare chaplains together from as far… Read more » about Keynote presentation at European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and health
The 2017-18 PGCert cohort has completed, apply here to join the 2108-19 cohort! Our PGCert finale day was a delight on many levels. We started the day off with pastries and coffee (always a good way!) and party poppers. Prof Debbie Holley shared how an increasingly mobile student population benefit from short videos in teaching practice. In… Read more » about PGCert finale!
Applying for HEA Fellowship – Writing Retreat These half day sessions are for colleagues who have already considered which level of Fellowship they want to apply for and are either ready to start writing their application or need some dedicated time to continue or finalise it ready for submission. A TeachBU mentor will be on… Read more » about Applying for HEA Fellowship: Writing Retreat
A day early this week! Brexit In the PM’s speech this week referred to below, she mentioned the implications of Brexit for research: …. since 2010 the number of overseas students coming to study at UK universities has increased by almost a quarter. The UK will always be open to the brightest and the best… Read more » about HE Policy update for the w/e 15th May
Today we held a LEAP session for the Midwifery team comprising 16 members of staff. The session was well-timed because the team is preparing new units so we were able to map out the ‘to be’ unit structure, content and assessment. It was so useful to have all the team in one room because there… Read more » about LEAPing into Midwifery
Summit on BME Leadership in HE This event was hosted by AdvanceHE, the new agency that was formed recently to include the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, the Higher Education Academy and the Equality Challenge Unit. Wonkhe have pointed out that: “So far only 45 out of 167 higher education institutions have signed the Advance… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 18th May 2018
