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Planning for 20/21
As the new year fast approaches BILT has been busy planning for a jam-packed range of initiatives and events for 20/21. This will include a reprise of our 2018 Student Hackathon, … Continue reading
Active, Collaborative Students as Researchers
Toby and Emily design a form of assessment
We recently published our first issue of the BILT Undergraduate Research Journal and the fantastic engagement from students got us Student Fellows thinking: how can we bring … Continue reading
BILT Friday Briefing Issue 41
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Briefing returns
As the new academic year approaches, we are delighted to bring you the first briefing of 20/21. This fortnight’s content includes a range of news and resources, including some details which were … 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 … Continue reading
Lessons from the BILT Conference: a MEMEorable Event
July’s BILT conference ‘Tales from the Digital Classroom’ had a whole host of amazing talks, sessions and highly entertaining chat, but something I never expected to see at a university event was attendees who are, … Continue reading
BILT Student Fellow Reflections: Owen Barlow
This year Bristol University students came on leaps and bounds when it came down to finding innovative ways of steering the wellbeing agenda for struggling students. After reaching out to a number of students leading … Continue reading
BILT Student Fellow Reflections: Marnie Woodmeade – ‘A year(ish) as an authentic learning Fellow
When I started the role as the authentic learning student fellow, I was a heady combination of huge ideas and had no idea how to do it, or how to work within the university. I … Continue reading
BILT Student Fellow Reflections: Toby Roberts
Trying to sum up my year at BILT is a tricky one – it definitely feels like a tale of two halves. One full of optimism and endless possibilities, and the other full of Zoom … Continue reading
BILT Student Fellow Reflections: Emily Kinder
We’ve reached the end of our stint as Student Fellows at BILT and it’s been quite the rollercoaster. If you’d told me at the start of the academic year that I would have planned a … Continue reading
Employability in the curriculum: career thinking and the classroom
If you’ve been following this blog series you should now have plenty of ideas about surfacing employability, developing students’ skills and providing opportunities for real-world learning ‘in the classroom’. If you’ve missed any, you can … Continue reading