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Goodbye to 2024/25!
Thank you to all of our amazing readers for being a part of these Briefings for the last academic year! We’ve published more than 120 blogs this academic year and dozens of case studies and events on top of that! This blog site has had more than 60,000 views since September, we had more Bristol Teaching Award nominations than ever before and our conference had a record number of attendees – what a year!
In the last 8 years since BILT was created we have engaged with hundreds (or thousands?!) of academics and we’ve seen such a change in the way that teaching and learning is viewed in the University. Thank you so much to everyone who has engaged with us in some way this year and we are looking forward to what the future holds!
This is our last Briefing for the summer but we will be back on September 12th to share our plans for the upcoming year – please get in touch with us if there’s anything you’d like to include in the next Briefing.
If you still want to catch up with what we’re publishing over the summer, please subscribe to this blog for email updates when we release a new post 🙂
Bristol Teaching Awards – plaque unveiled
To recognise their achievement, we commissioned a plaque in Royal Fort Gardens and held a special unveiling lunch there with some of this year’s Bristol Teaching Awards winners! Well done to everyone who was nominated, shortlisted and won this year’s awards.
AI and the Library guide
Explore the Library’s new resource designed to help students navigate the growing world of AI tools marketed for academic research processes such as finding literature and summarising texts. This guide highlights the importance of strong library and research skills as a foundation for developing AI literacy. It encourages students to think critically about the limitations and opportunities of AI, and to reflect on how or if they might use AI tools in their academic work in a way that aligns with their personal and academic values. This guide works well as a companion resource with the Study Skills’ Using AI at University guide.
Please signpost students and colleagues to AI and the Library – LibGuides at University of Bristol for library and research skills around AI, and to the Using AI at University guide for developing study skills around AI.
Introduction to teaching
Our blended course has been designed for those new to teaching/and or supporting learning including:
- Teaching staff (academic pathway 1 or 3) Staff new to teaching at Bristol waiting to join the PGCAP or the CREATE HEA Fellowship Scheme
- Teaching support roles – for example demonstrators, graduate teachers and associate teachers
- PGRs who teach
- Research staff (academic pathway 2) with some teaching responsibilities
To find out more about this course and how to register, please visit the webpage: Introduction to teaching | Bristol Institute For Learning and Teaching | University of Bristol
Blogs and resources
- Anti-conference series – episode 1 and 2
Professor James Norman has shared the first two instalments of his latest – and last! – series with us on an anti-conference he recently ran on regenerative design. But what is an anti-conference anyway? How do you plan one? Find out by checking out his two latest blog posts (and look out for others coming in the following weeks!). - Enhancing Engineering Education with AI: Pilot
Joel Ross and Rich Pyle are currently running a miniseries on the work they did with their unit of 830 students, and how they utilised the power of AI to provide formative feedback to their cohort. Catch up on this week’s posts and make sure to follow along for next week by accessing it here. - Journey mapping as an inclusive research tool to interview participants who are dyslexic
Dr Sarah McLaughlin, MSc. Health Professions Education co-lead and Principal Investigator, reflects upon her team’s research project focused on the educational journeys of health professions educators with dyslexia. She shares insights into the importance of ensuring research methodologies are inclusive. Read all about it here. - Celebrating our CREATE Scheme – Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching Blog
The CREATE Teaching team look back over another fabulous year for the CREATE scheme Read all about it here. - Celebrating Innovation: CREATE Leads the Way with Ultra!
The CREATE Teaching team on how they seized the opportunity of Blackboard Ultra to set an example, embedding Ultra into CREATE programmes. Read all about it here.
