As a previous BILT grantholder, Emily is no stranger when it comes to innovating in her teaching practice. After seeing her nominations for Bristol Teaching Awards, I got in touch to talk about the work she’s been doing over … Continue reading...
Tag: online learning
Disabilities, accessibility and the student learning experience – how you can help
We recently published a blog by Imogen Andrews, Chair of the Disability Network, on her reflections on the learning experience of students with disabilities. We wanted to follow this up with a response from our team on how you support … Continue reading...
Online Study Lounges: What they are, and how Study Skills have run them
by Dr Lewis Coyne, Study Skills Tutor for Social Sciences and Law
The past 10 months have brought about a minor revolution in the teaching and support offered at higher education institutions. The switch from in-person to online education hasn’t … Continue reading...
How can online communities enhance online learning?
It is no news that there has been a major change to the way curriculums are being delivered across the Education sector. There has been a distinctive rise of e-learning over the past couple of months, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely … Continue reading...
Top Tips for Building Inclusive Online Communities within Breakout Rooms
As the first post on the building inclusive online communities’ theme, I wished to clarify what the aims of this theme are to BILT. Building Inclusive Online Communities is about exploring how we can maintain our sense of social connectedness … Continue reading...
Designing an online course that is more about questions than answers
Guest blog from Professor Bridget Anderson and Emma Newcombe
This time in 2019 we at Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB), one of Bristol’s Specialist Research Institutes, were busy planning a programme of international visits and visitors, events, films and taking … Continue reading...
BILT Hackathon: 9 solutions to great asynchronous learning
The BILT Hackathon first involved us splitting into groups and discussing the main challenges that we as students are finding whilst participating in blended learning. Some challenges we discussed did not affect us all equally, for instance some students found … Continue reading...
Digital icebreakers
We’re all familiar with the use of icebreakers in workshops, seminars and meetings. Usually it’s a rapid-fire series of names, disciplines and role titles. They can also take alternative forms like an individual task that is then shared with the group in turn. For some, icebreakers are an essential … Continue reading...
Employability in the curriculum – the Why and How of real-world learning
Employability in the Curriculum series.
‘Real-world’, or ‘authentic’ learning are terms you are probably familiar with by now. This approach is a key feature of the curriculum framework, and one on which BILT have already shared a lot of … Continue reading...
BILT Friday Briefing Issue 39
News
New briefing format
You will notice that the briefing is now in a new format and platform. This is because Amy Palmer (Digital Resources Officer) is now on maternity leave. We wish Amy well for the coming months and … Continue reading...