TELID

Investigating Eye Tracking Technology

Posted by & filed under Creativity, Education, Equality and Diversity, FLIE, Innovation, TEL, TELID.

The Technology Enhanced Learning Innovation and Design (TELID) Team have recently taken possession of a Pupil Invisible eye tracking system from Pupil Labs. This consists of a pair of glasses with built in cameras and sensors which connects and records to a mobile phone. This system allows the user to be fully mobile while capturing… Read more »

New Brightspace Feature Pilot – Activity Feed

Posted by & filed under Co-creation, Creativity, Education, FLIE, Teaching and Learning, TEL, TELID, VLE.

As a part our ongoing evaluation of updates to Brightspace, for Semester 2, we will be piloting a new widget called ‘Activity Feed’ which replaces the current ‘Announcements’ tool on your unit Homepage. The Activity Feed allows linked content and activities to be more easily embedded in posts and brings a new approach to the… Read more »

VR Meditation: The Path To Next-Gen Health & Happiness

Posted by & filed under Creativity, Education, Equality and Diversity, HE Students, Innovation, Mental Health, Reflective practice, Student, Study Support, Teaching and Learning, TELID, Virtual reality.

Stress has been dubbed the “health epidemic of the 21st century” by the World Health Organization and technology is often cited as one of the major contributors to the stressors of modern life. But, at the same time, tech is becoming part of the solution. In this article Sol Rogers of Consumer Tech from Forbes,… Read more »

Women in Tech: International Women’s Day at BU

Posted by & filed under International Women's Day, Resource, Teaching and Learning, TEL, TELID, Women's Academic Network.

Women's Academic Network

  To celebrate International Women’s Day 2019, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and the BU Women’s Academic Network co-produced a ‘Women in technology’ and ‘Uncelebrated Women’ event, offered to staff and students across BU. The first workshop, Coding and Learning was led by the inspirational Dr Carina Buckley, Instructional Design Manager at Solent Learning… Read more »

Qlone App for iPads and iPhones

Posted by & filed under Augmented Reality, Blended learning, Co-creation, Creative Methods, Creativity, Education, Gamification, Innovation, Resource, TEL, TELID, Visual learning, Visual thinking.

Qlone scan dome

After seeing a demonstration of this App at the BETT in January, I thought this would warrant further investigation. The Qlone (pronounced Clone) App for iPads and iPhones from EyeCue turns the device’s camera into a 3D scanner. The App is free to download and use but has in App purchases for some formats when… Read more »

BETT 2019 Day One

Posted by & filed under Assessment and feedback, Augmented Reality, Blended learning, CEL Staff, Conference Report, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Education, Equality and Diversity, Events and workshops, Gamification, Innovation, Mobile learning, News, Reflective practice, Social Media, TELID, Virtual reality, Visual learning.

Held over four days at the Excel Centre in London,  BETT showcases the education, technology landscape with 800 +leading companies, 103 Ed tech startups and over 34,000 attendees. In other words, it’s big and it’s busy. Day One was attended by John Moran, Jenna Giles-Bodilly and David Hunt from CEL. Although there are a wide… Read more »

Innovating Pedagogy 2019 – OU Report

Posted by & filed under AdvanceHE, AI, Augmented Reality, Blended learning, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Education, Gamification, Innovation, TEL, TELID, Virtual reality.

The Open University has released its Innovating Pedagogy 2019 report which covers the following themes. Playful learning Learning with robots Decolonising learning Drone-based learning Learning through wonder Action learning Virtual studios Place-based learning Making thinking visible Roots of Empathy Themes from previous reports Read and download the report here. http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/

Windows 10 browser compatibility – Brightspace update

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As you will no doubt be aware, there has been a programme of updates for BU teaching spaces where new hardware has been installed and PCs have been upgraded to Windows 10.  Find out which browsers are recommended for overall best compatibility with most websites, including Brightspace and other BU TEL systems.