We’ve created a special edition of the Briefing this week, with a few Christmas treats included to set you up for the holidays!
What’s on our Christmas Wishlist?
Our PVC-Education and Students, Prof. Tansy Jessop, has recently released a new book, ‘Student Agency and Engagement’, looking at themes including programmatic assessment, alienation, engagement and student agency. Order your copy here.
Pre-order James Norman’s book on Regenerative Design, ‘The Regenerative Structural Engineer’ and complete the story we’ve been following for the past two years! Although primarily written for engineers, this book is a ‘creative call for radical change’ and encourages readers to rethink their approaches to create a better future.
There’s no getting away from the fact that AI is here to stay and so it’s essential we start to think about how we are going to live with it and its ethical implication in education. This book outlines the key debates around artificial intelligence and explores the ethical consequences of widespread embedding of AI across the education sector. Order your copy here.
This book is an accessible and practical guide on how to design modules so that each student is valued equally. It includes contributions from over 80 experts and is available as a hard copy or ebook.
Things to look forward to in 2024
The rest of our brilliant Show, Tell and Talk series
We have four more events taking place in 2024, covering AI, inclusive assessment, decolonisation and sustainability and group assessment. View them all and book onto them via Develop.
Introduction to HE teaching at Bristol
This online course is designed for those new to teaching and/or supporting learning and replaces the Starting to Teach programme.
Dates are available in January 2024: https://bilt.online/event/introduction-to-he-teaching-at-bristol-4/
Bristol Teaching Awards nominations opening in March!
Last year over 1000 nominations were submitted – we’d love to have even more next year! Get thinking about who you’d like to nominate; we’ve got awards for academic and professional services staff, teams and individuals. Look at our BTA pages for more information.
Our next BILT Conference – we’ll be looking for contributors in early 2024
Our annual conference takes part in July and will be taking place in-person again next year! We’re still finalising the theme but we will be sharing more information and looking for abstracts and papers in early 2024.
New assessment series from the Curriculum Enhancement Programme team
Our colleagues in the CEP team will be producing a number of blogs on assessment, feedback from the NSS and student voice around assessment changes.
Student Research Festival and Journal*
Our next Student Research Festival is taking place on 25th April 2024 – we are currently accepting Expressions of Interest via this form on the theme of ‘Conflict and Resolution’. Please contact Izzy Ford if you have any questions. We are also accepting abstracts for the Student Research Journal until January 2024 – visit this page for more information and the form to submit. Please contact Carla Forster if you have any questions.
*Please note these opportunities are only available for UG and PGT students.
And finally… your ‘To Do’ before Christmas
- Share the Jisc Insights survey with your students
- Block out the rest of the Show, Tell and Talk series in your calendar
- We’d still love to see more of your 2023 achievements – please share them via this post and thank you to those who have shared!
- Set a reminder to turn your ‘Out of Office’ on and pop a bottle of bubbly in the fridge!
