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Due to unforeseen circumstances, the workshops scheduled for April have been cancelled. The speakers will upload materials on the topic to FLIEflix and they will be available after Easter. Pedagogical practices for fully online programmes – Wed 6th Apr (12:00 to 13:00) *CANCELLED Aligned Curriculum Design (Using LEAP approach) – Wed 13th April (12:00 to 13:00) *CANCELLED To… Read more » about *UPDATE * FLIE Education Enhancement Workshops – April
Effective assessment and feedback is underpinned by sound curriculum design. Some programme teams may have participated in LEAP (Learning Excellence Acceleration Programme) workshops on curriculum design led by staff from the Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL), the forerunner of FLIE and will be familiar with some of the pedagogic building blocks of curriculum design… Read more » about Preparing for Curriculum Design
Virtual Reality started its fascinating take-over of healthcare for the greatest pleasure of patients and doctors alike. Here are five great examples of medical VR transforming patient lives and how doctors work. Did you know that it is possible to swim with whales in the ocean while lying in a hospital bed? Have you imagined… Read more » about 5 Ways Medical Virtual Reality Is Already Changing Healthcare
We held a Learning Excellence (LEAP) session with twelve colleagues from the programme team in the current Department of Events and Leisure last week. The goal was to work on new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes starting in Sept 2019. Unit teaching teams worked with new Intended Learning Outcomes and their knowledge from current units to… Read more » about Mapping Learning Excellence with colleagues from Events and Leisure
Anne Quinney, Ann Luce and Debbie Holley presented the BU Assessment and Feedback Toolkit to a national audience in a workshop at the ALDinHE conference last week. Alongside their work, two keynotes set the tone for different aspects of life in Higher Education today. The link to the programme is here, and all slides, presentations… Read more » about The BU Assessment and Feedback Toolkit: leading the way at ALDinHE
Colleagues – some interesting articles here: This is our 10th anniversary year and the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) has a number of exciting developments to report: Firstly, Issue 14 is now live online: http://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/index The contents of this edition are as follows: Editorial PDF Papers Making use of students’ digital habits in higher education: What they… Read more » about 10th anniversary year and the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE)
For those interested in Academic Literacies and English for Academic Purposes Information on the event (212 November 2018) https://www.baleap.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Programme-Academic-Literacies-and-EAP-UoE-November-24-2018.pdf and for the online resources click through from here: Conference Resources pages Academic Literacies and EAP: Same or different? The theme of the first event organised jointly by ALDinHE and BALEAP was Academic Literacies and EAP: Same or different? The… Read more » about Presentations from international conference: Academic Literacies and EAP
What do Professors do in the summer? This summer I was delighted to be invited to give a keynote at Liverpool Hope University;and was keen to get onto the interactive part of the session, where we would be trying out various augmented reality tools. So how to get across the policy background? The answer was… Read more » about Using Twitter to engage your conference audience
On Monday 16th July, Professor Debbie Holley will be giving a keynote at the 5th Blended Learning Symposium run by Liverpool Hope University. The keynote and all the other events can be followed on twitter #BLHope or we will be tweeting from @CEL_BU Below is the abstract for her talk, Developing and Mapping Student Digital literacy and… Read more » about Follow the 5th Liverpool Hope Blended Learning Symposium #BLHope: Prof Debbie Holley giving a keynote
It was fantastic to witness the marvellous reactions from members of the public who attended our Augmented/Virtual reality (AR/VR) for Education event. Children were amazed to see a Gorilla come to life when scanning an AR trigger point using HP Reveal. Some of the best reactions of the day were from the little… Read more » about Amazed participants at BUFOL18 CEL event- AR/VR for Education