Beyond the immediate impact on people’s lives and livelihoods, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused a great deal of disruption in how we work. The burden on academics, particularly with respect to teaching, has been considerable. … Continue reading
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Engaged learning in a COVID landscape – what we learnt from our latest Community meeting.
Engaged Learning sees students working as part of their curriculum in partnership with external organisation on real world questions. The joint Careers Service/ BILT Engaged Learning Community is a peer support network for academic and … Continue reading
BILT Friday Briefing Issue 46
News
Appointment of 2020/21 Student Fellows – Meet the Fellows
We are delighted to announce the appointment of 4 new Student Fellows for 2020/21. The Student Fellows will be working on the themes of building … Continue reading
New arrival: Real World Learning book!
Working with a bunch of new and seasoned authors and publishing a modest-sized edited collection against all odds is indeed an extraordinary experience! After the persistent hard work during the eventful last two years, our … Continue reading
BILT Friday Briefing Issue 45
News
Student Digital Champions
Bristol SU and the Digital Education Office are looking for 12 students (undergraduate and postgraduate) to help shape and improve Bristol students’ experience of blended learning this academic year. The team … Continue reading
Reasons to be cheerful (parts 1 – 8)
As the nights draw in and the newspapers give us little to be cheerful about, it can be particularly hard to stay optimistic at this time. The changes made over the spring and summer to embed blended … Continue reading
BILT Friday Briefing Issue 44
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National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) Schemes 2021 – now open!
BILT are now accepting expressions of interest (EOIs) for the 2021 NTF and CATE schemes. Those interested in … Continue reading
Welcome to the start of a very unusual year
As we approach the start of the main teaching term I wanted to thank everyone across the university for the enormous efforts you’ve put into designing and creating online and blended teaching for our students. … Continue reading
BILT Friday Briefing Issue 43
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Recruiting Student Fellows
We are currently looking to recruit four, part-time (approx 1 day a week) BILT Student Fellows to join the team. This year’s projects will focus on:
Bristol Institute for Learning
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