During 2016-2017 academic year, I was fortunate enough to be awarded a BU Teaching and Learning Fellowship via the Centre for Excellence in Learning for the work I was doing around social and mobile journalism on my first-year unit, Features and Online 1 on BA Multi-Media Journalism. In that class, I worked with our fabulous… Read more » about Teaching and Learning Fellowship helps disseminate best practice in the classroom
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Audience response systems – a further update
A brief update on last week’s post on audience response systems. The proposal to upgrade our TurningPoint5 solution to TurningPoint8 which can be used by all staff and all students (using their own devices and/or our remaining clickers) was approved by the TEL Steering Forum last week. The next step is for the proposal to… Read more » about Audience response systems – a further update
University of Greenwich: Call for Papers: Special Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) edition
We are pleased to announce a special technology enhanced learning edition of Compass, Journal of Learning and Teaching. This special issue connects central topics to technology enhanced learning to practice and we invite papers from a wide range of areas that focus on practice, including, but not limited to innovative teaching and assessment, learning design,… Read more » about University of Greenwich: Call for Papers: Special Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) edition
BU Festival of learning: CEL Innovation Showcase
A wonderful day was had by all at the BU Festival of Learning family day, Saturday 8th July. Our showcase included augmented reality, virtual reality, using the OCULUS RIFT, co-creating content for Google cardboard using 360 degree cameras and lots more. Families dropped in for the whole day, and explored the technologies of the future…. and were… Read more » about BU Festival of learning: CEL Innovation Showcase
Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference 2017
In pursuit of excellence: inspiring achievement through transformative pedagogy. Professor Debbie Holley, David Hunt and Stephen Pyne attended and delivered sessions at the Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference at Southampton Solent University on Friday 23rd June 2017. The aim of the conference was to promote excellence in learning and teaching by providing a forum… Read more » about Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference 2017
If I can do it then so can you
A post from Jenny Hall This week I was privileged to be selected to present at the triennial International Confederation of midwives Congress taking place in Toronto, Canada, as part of a symposium with a colleague from Scotland and another from Canada. We were discussing Spirituality and childbirth (and able to mention our edited book… Read more » about If I can do it then so can you
CEL journal article on TEL Toolkits just published
We are very pleased to announce that an article written by David Biggins, Debbie Holley and Marketa Zezulkova was published yesterday in the journal, EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning. The paper compares the EU’s 2013 and 2016 digital competence (DigComp) framework with the UK education’s 2009 and 2015 digital capabilities (DigCap) framework. The similarities are… Read more » about CEL journal article on TEL Toolkits just published
Using Padlet in your work
During the recent Brightspace training we used Padlet to capture feedback from staff. In the post-training feedback, many staff noted how they planned to try out Padlet in their own work. Given the popularity of Padlet, is it worth bringing it to a wider attention. Padlet is like an electronic flip chart. The flipchart paper… Read more » about Using Padlet in your work
Do you know all the facets of Google search?
You’ve seen the marketing blurb before – ‘How Product X changed my life’. I had such a revelatory experience when visiting a site hosted by the University of Southampton and containing a set of open resources to help staff and students gain the most from using technology. https://www.lexdis.org.uk/ As an example, the home page contains… Read more » about Do you know all the facets of Google search?
Developing Staff Further: The additional benefits of a TEL Toolkit
Colleagues, delighted to report that our abstract for the prestigious Association of Learning Technologists has been accepted – there has been significant interest in the BU work in this area, led by David Biggins, previously a CEL theme leader and now one of our Academic Learning Advisors working on Brightspace, our new VLE ==== Developing… Read more » about Developing Staff Further: The additional benefits of a TEL Toolkit
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