Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
As some of you know, CEL staff run writing bootcamps for PGR students interested in applying for Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy through TeachBU. This is part of CEL’s training provision for PhD students who engage in teaching during their doctoral studies, following up from the Introduction to Education Practice course. We run… Read more » about Lecture streaming using Panopto: three tips for your sessions
The 11th annual Mike Warne Lecture sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and organised by students from the BA (Hons) Marketing Communications programme was held on 1st March 2017 in the Fusion building. This year’s theme was Immersive Technology – The Future of Marketing, introduced by Chris Daly – Chief Executive of CIM,… Read more » about 11th annual Mike Warne Lecture at BU – 1 Mar 17
This afternoon we held the first of the sessions on the PG Diploma in TEL. The session was attended by 11 members of staff from across the faculties and professional services. The session began by explaining the structure and content of this module which is being offered as CPD to staff ahead of its validation. … Read more » about PG Diploma CPD unit in TEL commences
Xerte is an elearning development environment that has been used in BU for some time. If you have knowledge of using Xerte, could you please contact Caspian Dugdale of BU please? Caspian is seeking information on this development environment.
Tim Galling has been working on the help and support available to staff using the audio, video and presentation recording application, Panopto. The expanded guidance includes new notes on usage and screen shots of how Panopto looks while you are recording and when viewing the material. The information available about Panopto is now extensive and… Read more » about Panopto support materials expanded
Sonya Harvey, a digital innovator and Student Development Award Co-ordinator, has created an excellent presentation to introduce the TEL Toolkit. Click here to view the presentation. In addition to being a structured and comprehensive introduction to the TEL Toolkit, the presentation is also a very good example of how Prezi can be used to create… Read more » about An introduction to the TEL Toolkit using Prezi
Technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools have a wide-ranging influence on our students be it via the VLE, recorded lectures, audience response systems or using WePresent to project from their own devices. CEL is seeking to collate videos of students’ experience of using any of our TEL tools. These videos will be added to the TEL… Read more » about Can you help to support the TEL Toolkit?
[A report from Iain Darby, Lecturer in Paramedic Science] David Biggins came to the Paramedic Science team away day during the summer to talk to us about Peerwise. Peerwise is a website that allows students to compose questions for their course peers and answer questions that their peers have written. Following this session we decided… Read more » about Use of multiple choice questions by the Paramedic team
CEL are hosting TEL Toolkit sessions on 14 & 15 February. The purpose of these sessions is to explore how you can use the Toolkit in your teaching practice. There is no set agenda. Instead we respond to what tutors need and explore the options. That said, we try to cover 6-7 tools per session… Read more » about TEL Toolkit sessions on both campuses next week
The company supplying the new VLE, D2L, recently visited BU to provide demonstrations of their Brightspace platform to all four Faculties and Professional Services. The demonstrations were very well received and generated a good deal of excitement around the capabilities of our new VLE. For those who were unable to attend the sessions, please follow… Read more » about Video presentations to BU of the new VLE, Brightspace
