Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Learn how to use the new Audio Visual equipment on Thursday 23 June. The Fusion Building has been a significant investment for BU and the design, functionality and features can be used in different learning scenarios to deliver innovative teaching and learning. A crucial part of this is the Audio Visual equipment that has been… Read more » about Using AV Equipment in The Fusion Building – 23 June
This afternoon we held the MOOC workshop with Blackboard’s Anne Cross and Ashley Wright. According to Russell et at (2013), MOOCs are changing education. For example MIT’s computing courses can attract over 100,000 students (Chandler 2014). MOOCs demonstrate one way of opening up education to a much wider, global audience, many of whom would otherwise… Read more » about A review of today’s MOOC workshop
For the digital skills self-assessment questionnaire, we currently have 174 responses. A big thank you to all those people who have completed the online questionnaire since it was launched in February. We would ideally like all academic staff to complete the survey so can you spare 15 minutes to help us please? Completing the questionnaire… Read more » about Have you completed the digital skills self-assessment?
At the start of May, we asked what you would want from an audience or student response system. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to Sue Callard. We are in the process of collating the information received and deciding which of the many potential solutions to this requirement we can include in the review. … Read more » about Audience response systems – an update
Congratulations to Ashley Spriggs, who won an iPad for her innovative use of the presentation software Prezi. Ashley was awarded the prize by BU’s Vice-Chancellor John Vinney for her winning entry in a competition led by the team behind the TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) Toolkit – BU’s online self-help guide to technology in teaching. The… Read more » about Ashley Spriggs wins the ‘How do you use yours?’ competition
The Fusion project, Students as Trainers, will very shortly be delivering help and support to staff who have requested assistance with digital skills, for example social media, graphics, using PCs, Macs and tablets. If you are interested in participating in this pilot project that ends in July, you can sign up here. We will report… Read more » about Students as trainers – about to start delivering support for staff
For the session on MOOCs next Wednesday, we are planning to use the new Collaborate application to allow people to access the session live from their own computers, wherever you are (so long as you have an internet connection and Chrome!). This is the first time we will try using Collaborate in this way. If… Read more » about Can’t attend the MOOC session in person? Join us online
A MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) is a model for delivering online learning material to anyone who wants to sign up for the course. Usually, there is no limit on the number of people who can sign up for a MOOC. Figures suggest that 25 million people have signed up for MOOCs in the last… Read more » about MOOCs – an introduction
A 4 minutes update on work within the TEL theme from David Biggins from yesterday’s CEL AwayDay. Click here to view the video.
Audience Response Systems such as TurningPoint and Mentimeter are being used across the University in the Faculties for teaching and learning and in Professional Services to capture electronic feedback. We are undertaking a review of audience response systems in the next 3 months to determine an appropriate solution for BU. In order to help us… Read more » about What do you need from an audience response system?
