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
A virtual classroom is an online environment where staff and students can come together and share audio, video, documents and applications. One of the major benefits is that the session can be recorded and then made available to participants for example through the VLE. It is not only for staff and students but can be… Read more » about Dipping your toe into the virtual classroom
The virtual classroom functionality which uses Blackboard’s Collaborate software has been added to the TEL Toolkit. Please click here for information on Collaborate. We are still in the testing phase of Collaborate and the testing will run until the end of December. After that time, we will review the situation and may continue the trial…. Read more » about Blackboard Collaborate added to the TEL Toolkit
Over the last we months, a number of academic and support staff at BU have been trialling the Blackboard Collaborate application to create virtual classrooms where students and/or colleagues can come together online and share video, voice, chat text, documents and computer screens. Click here for more information on Collaborate. One of the units I… Read more » about Living in the virtual classroom
For the last few weeks we have be trialling a virtual classroom environment which uses software provided by Blackboard. The application is called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual, online spaces to which you can invite up to 100 students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PDFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. … Read more » about The virtual classroom trial
For the last few weeks we have be trialling a virtual classroom environment which uses software provided by Blackboard. The application is called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual, online spaces to which you can invite up to 100 students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PDFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. … Read more » about Working in an online classroom
For the last few weeks we have be trialling a virtual classroom environment which used software provided by Blackboard. The application is called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual spaces to which you can invite up to 100 students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PDFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. If… Read more » about Working in a virtual classroom
In response to requests for help in completing the Digital Skills Self Assessment, we have created a 9 minute video which runs through the questionnaire, explains the questions being asked and the types of responses. Click here to watch the video. Click here to complete the digital skills self assessment. This video was created using… Read more » about How to complete the digital skills self-assessment
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
Last week saw the commencement of a trial of the virtual classroom application from Blackboard called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual spaces to which you can invite students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PSFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. If you use the Chrome browser to access Collaborate, you can… Read more » about Trialling the virtual classroom
