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Show, Tell and Talk: Active Learning
Our popular Show Tell and Talk series returns for another year kicking off with a sharing innovations workshop on active learning. This event takes place on 19th November from 1pm – 3.15pm.
Embedding effective and inclusive active learning into teaching and curriculum design, which engages, motivates and supports all students in their learning is an important University of Bristol strategic aim.
2026 NTF and CATE candidates announced
We are delighted to share that we are supporting the application of three brilliant colleagues for National Teaching Fellowships this year – you can read more about their experience and teaching journeys in their introductory blogs:
We are also supporting a CATE nomination for the CREATE team.
Blackboard Baseline Course Standards Co-creation Workshop
Over the upcoming months, the Digital Education Office will be working on creating the Baseline Course Standards. This will be a set of good practices in Blackboard course design, co-created with students and staff. It will provide a shared foundation to ensure an accessible, consistent, and comprehensive learning experience for students across all units and programmes.
The next co-creation workshop with staff will take place on Wednesday, November 19 at 2pm – 3:30pm in room 1.21, 35 Berkeley Square. We will provide tea, coffee and biscuits.
If you are interested in joining, please sign up on Develop.
Blogs and resources
- BILT Broadcast: October – introducing Pratham, Gaurav and the new personal tutoring scheme with Prof. Alvin Birdi
You can listen to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Soundcloud by searching for ‘BILT Broadcast’. Listen online here.
- Can connections in the classroom impact academic engagement?
BILT Student Fellow and 2nd Year Sociology with Quantitative Methods student Elliot Green shares his thoughts on small gestures of sharing help nurture a student’s sense of belonging in the classroom.
- How Do We Solve a Problem Like Engagement? The Benefits of Learning from Our Students
Sarah Jones, a senior lecturer in the Department of History, has shared the findings from cross-institutional research on classroom engagement and the factors at play in creating a successful environment.
- From archaeology to education: learning through co-creation
BILT’s Aisling Tierney shares more about her recent archaeological fieldwork and how the community engagement aspect of this interplays with her University role and co-creating with students.
- A new approach to ‘Encountering Ancient Worlds’
This blog by Shelley Hales and co-written with two previous students who had taken the unit, demonstrates how emphasis on reflection, communication about learning methods and successful cohort community building in a first year unit can have a wonderful impact on students’ experience and helps their transition to university.
- Case study: Co-creation of a Peer Assessment Marking Scheme: Exploring the experience of PGT students implementing the new UoB marking rubric
Gemma Ford, Karen Rigby and Sally Dowling share the outputs from their Education Development Project exploring co-creation of the marking scheme.
- AI use in Chinese Universities: Perspectives from Social Sciences students and academics
Dr Lin Ma and Dr Aslak-Antti Oksanen share their research into how AI is being used by students in Bristol and 4 Chinese universities.
- Risk, restraint, and remedy in reflective journals
BILT Student Fellow Pratham Gupta, leading on the inclusive assessment theme, shares this piece on reflective journals as a form of assessment and delves deeper into how personal experience can shape this type of work, it’s limitations and the potential opportunities it can bring.
Events
Principal Fellowship workshop, 5th November.
To support prospective applicants, the Universities of Bristol, Bath Spa, Bath, and UWE Bristol have come together to offer prospective Principal Fellows a programme of workshops, writing retreats and opportunities for peer mentoring and buddying support.
Find out more on our website.
Show Tell and Talk: Active Learning
Our first ‘Show, Tell and Talk’ of the year kicks off on 19th November. See more details above.
Find our more and book on Develop.
Tools for Tempered Radicals : Changing the system from within
20 November 2-4pm, AIMS CENTRE SR1 E323
What drives organisations to be more environmentally engaged? How can motivated staff within organisations work to move things forward? Can such ‘tempered radicals’ really make a difference, and how do they relate to activists protesting from outside.
Through examples and discussion, this workshop will explore what it means to work as a tempered radical. We will consider a number of different ‘drivers’ that impact organisations’ engagement, and how tempered radicals can put them to work to accelerate the pace of change of society.
The 2 hour workshop will be hosted by Professor Chris Preist, University Academic Director of Sustainability.
Book tickets for Tools for Tempered Radicals : Changing the system from within
Green Games Night
25 November 4.30-7pm, Senate House, Global Lounge
Join us in the Global Lounge for an open board games session with free pizza! We will have a range of sustainability/environmentally themed board games for you to play with. Come alone and join a group or bring your friends. The first 30 minutes will be for games browsing/reading rules then we have 2 hours of gameplay with pizza at 6 PM.
