Teaching and Learning

Live captioning with Zoom

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Zoom now has the functionality to provide live captions during a session. There are many reasons that students might want to use this feature; where English is not their first language, where students are situated in a noisy environment, or to help students who may require additional learning support. You can use this feature to… Read more » about Live captioning with Zoom

Support and guidance in August

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Just a reminder that the FLIE team are still here to support you with building and planning your units during August. We will be running online drop in sessions every Friday at 11am so do pop in if you have any questions and a Learning Technologist will do their best to answer them. We also… Read more » about Support and guidance in August

Unit Preparation Know How

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It’s that time of year when our thoughts turn to preparing our units for the next academic year. As you think about populating your units (with the good intention of making an early start and not leaving it too late in the day!) here are five key takeaways to help get you started. 1. Check… Read more » about Unit Preparation Know How

Unit Preparation workshops

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A reminder that FLIE are running a series of workshops on Unit Preparation Basics during July and August to support staff with planning and building their units for the new academic year. All new units are active by default and visible for all semesters, so join one of our sessions to get a better understanding of: the… Read more » about Unit Preparation workshops

Upcoming Faculty sessions

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The revised Digital Pedagogies Framework is now available to support staff in the development and delivery of their units for the new academic year, and FLIE will be running sessions with faculties next week to introduce the newly updated framework. Why should I attend? As well as highlighting some of the changes that have been… Read more » about Upcoming Faculty sessions

Revised Digital Pedagogies Framework

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The Digital Pedagogies Framework was developed as part of an integrated plan for digital and online pedagogies. It aims to support staff at BU in the preparation, development and delivery of online and blended teaching. The current version has now been revised based on the experience of the academic year 2020/2021 and is aligned with… Read more » about Revised Digital Pedagogies Framework

Unit Preparation workshops

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In conjunction with the rollout of the new curricular units on Brightspace in mid July, and to support staff with planning and building their units for the new academic year, FLIE will be running a series of workshops on Unit Preparation Basics. All new units are active by default and visible for all semesters, so… Read more » about Unit Preparation workshops

Assessment & Feedback masterclasses – slides and recordings

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Dr Anne Quinney and Dai Hounsell, Visiting Professor in FLIE, recently delivered a series of masterclasses linked to the theme of Assessment and Feedback. The three sessions focused on: Peer Assessment Effective Feedback and Designing Assessments. If you didn’t manage to make any of the sessions, you can catch up with the recordings from the… Read more » about Assessment & Feedback masterclasses – slides and recordings

Updated Digital Pedagogies Framework

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The Digital Pedagogies Framework is an instrument to support staff in the development and delivery of their online and blended pedagogies. What’s new? The current version has been revised based on the experience of the academic year 2020/2021 and is fully aligned with the Fused Digital Pedagogy model. How do I find out more? FLIE… Read more » about Updated Digital Pedagogies Framework

Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme – Annual Review

The Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme concludes for this academic year and what a year it has been! In 2020-21 the Researcher Development Programme delivered 107 online sessions across 54 different topic areas and have received fantastic feedback throughout. Thank you to all our facilitators and of course PGRs who engaged and were ready to learn and share. Thank you to… Read more » about Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme – Annual Review