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• APEX Open Online writing retreat

  Aimed at: APEX Open candidates who are preparing their portfolios. Candidates must have a clear goal of the writing they wish to work on during the retreat. It is not suitable for those who are not yet in a position to write.

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• Anti-racism in the HE classroom (session 1)

  Aimed at: Staff should contact their Associate Dean of Equality and Diversity or, if you aren't affiliated with a college, Robyn Fitzharris before registering for this session.

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• Anti-racism in the HE curriculum (session 2)

  Aimed at: Staff should contact their Associate Dean of Equality and Diversity or, if you aren't affiliated with a college, Robyn Fitzharris before registering for this session.

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• Assessment and Teaching

  Aimed at: New academics taking the Academic Professional Programme. APEX Open candidates, hybrid route candidates and anyone else interested.

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• APEX Open Mentor and Reviewer training

  Aimed at: Those who are a mentor for a candidate on the APEX Open route. Those who are a reviewer for the APEX Open Recognition Panel. Those who have previously shown interest in reviewing for the APEX Open Recognition Panel.

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• Advance HE reviewer: Are you interested in becoming a reviewer for our APEX Open pathway to Advance HE recognition?

  Aimed at: All staff with Fellowship or Senior Fellowship who have never attended any training related to Advance HE reviewer training.

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• APEX Open Q&A

  Aimed at: Those who have already made substantial progress towards their Advance HE accreditations and looking to submit by the next deadline.

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• Blackboard Learn Student-Tailored Templates

  Aimed at: All staff involved in teaching and learning

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• Brightspace: Getting Started for Teaching staff

  Aimed at: All teaching staff

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• Brightspace VLE: Communication Tools

  Aimed at: All Staff

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• Brightspace VLE: Setting Up and Managing Quizzes

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Brightspace VLE: Analytic Tools

  Aimed at: All Staff

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• Brightspace VLE: Creating and Managing Groups

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Brightspace: Creating an Engaging Module

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Belongingness and first career destination – the impact of placements on students and graduate employment

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Brunel's Celebration of Scholarship

  Aimed at: All staff. The APDU especially invite early career-stage academics and research students to participate and share their insights into being part of a scholarly community and how it contributes to their professional development.

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• Curriculum Design: getting started

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting learning

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• Creating learning environments

  Aimed at: New academics taking the Academic Professional Programme. APEX Open candidates, hybrid route candidates and anyone else interested.

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• Creating a coherent learning journey and encouraging students to become independent learners.

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Constructive alignment- a critical approach

  Aimed at: All staff

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• CBASS Community of Practice Project

  Aimed at: CBASS staff

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• Creating Agentic Assessment Environments: the PhD perspective

  Aimed at: All staff

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• CHMLS Education Hub Seminar: Creating, supporting and sustaining educators - is there a secret recipe?

  Aimed at: All Academics

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• CHMLS Education Hub Journal Club - Making Judgements: Investigating the process of composing and receiving peer feedback

  Aimed at: All Academics

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• CHMLS Education Hub: A new tool to quantify authenticity of your assessments

  Aimed at: All teaching staff

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• CHMLS Education Hub: Writing content-valid MCQs

  Aimed at: All teaching staff

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• Creating and Using Content Valid Quizzes to Aid Student Learning

  Aimed at: Academic staff, course leads and educators

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• CHMLS Education Talk, Come watch with me: Blending the synchronous with the asynchronous to enhance students’ learning and sense of community

  Aimed at: All Teaching Staff

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• CHMLS Education Hub Mini Symposium: Generative AI

  Aimed at: All teaching staff

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• Creating a Bond from Digital Culture(s) for an Enhanced Education in Digital Fields of Study

  Aimed at: All teaching staff

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• Developing Preparatory Materials for TBL

  Aimed at: All staff involved in teaching and/or supporting learning.

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• Designing and Implementing Subject-specific Academic Skills – The Psychology Graduate Stream

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Designing and Implementing Subject-specific Employability Skills – The Psychology Graduate Stream

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Designing effective Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Do you want to know about Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)?

  Aimed at: All academic and teaching staff

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• Digital experiences using generative AI (ChatGPT) to enhance learning

  Aimed at: All Teaching Staff

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• Designing Successful Group Work Using Feedback Fruits

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum

  Aimed at: All staff involved in teaching and learning

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• Earning the right to cite: Preventing students citing sources without first demonstrating they have read them

  Aimed at: All staff involved in teaching and learning

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• Embedding Wellbeing

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum

  Aimed at: All staff involved in teaching and learning

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• Embedding the EDI toolkit in your teaching practice

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Evidence-based practice

  Aimed at: New academics taking the Academic Professional Programme. APEX Open candidates, hybrid route candidates and anyone else interested.

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• Embedding Wellbeing in the Curriculum

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Engaging in pedagogic research

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting learning

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• Enhancing the Student Experience via a Coherent Learning Journey and via Community Building

  Aimed at: Staff wishing to develop their practice in enhancing student experience and skills

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• Feeding back to students

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting learning

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• Generative AI: A Fast Track to Engineering

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Higher Education: the bigger picture and your place within it

  Aimed at: New academics taking the Academic Professional Programme, APEX Open candidates, hybrid route candidates, and anyone else interested.

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• How to use Pebblepad

  Aimed at: Those wishing to submit their Advance HE portfolios

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• How can we decolonize the university?

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Introduction to Embedding Equity and Inclusion into the Curriculum

  Aimed at: All staff, particularly teaching and tutoring staff

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• Introduction to Team-based Learning (TBL) at Brunel Medical School

  Aimed at: All Staff involved in teaching and/or supporting learning.

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• Implementing employability and transferable skills around the UG curriculum

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Interprofessional Clinical Training: Learners and students are to be even better prepared for future cooperation.

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Introduction to AI in Teaching and Assessment

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Introduction to Rubrics

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Introduction to Embedding Inclusivity within your Teaching

  Aimed at: All Staff

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• Introduction to Digital Assessment

  Aimed at: All Teaching staff

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• Introduction to the 2023 Advance HE Professional Standards Framework

  Aimed at: Staff interested in or looking to submit an AFHEA, FHEA or SFHEA application. APEX Open mentors

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• Journal Club

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Journal Club- Authentic Assessment

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Journal Club discussion forum - Implications of a Twitter thread

  Aimed at: Everyone

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• Leveraging ChatGPT in Higher Education: Enhancing Learning Experiences through Advanced AI

  Aimed at: Those involved in teaching and assessing.

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• Mentoring for Advance HE accreditation Q&A Drop-in

  Aimed at: All mentors of academic and professional staff working on their Advance HE Fellowship applications

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• Mentoring: Thinking about becoming an Advance HE Mentor?

  Aimed at: Aimed at those who are curious about becoming a mentor and would like to find out more before committing themselves. If you have already decided to become a mentor, contact APDU for access to full training.

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• Making Judgements: Investigating the process of composing and receiving peer feedback

  Aimed at: All Academics

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• Managing Classroom Behaviours

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Managing Classroom Behaviours Part 2

  Aimed at:

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• Online teaching and assessment tools at Brunel: An overview

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting learning

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• Open Book Exams: Opportunities and Challenges

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting learning

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• Open Educational Resources: Exploring access, inclusion and academic success with open textbooks

  Aimed at: All Teaching Staff

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• Open Science in Teaching

  Aimed at:

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• Programme Design

  Aimed at: New academics taking the Academic Professional Programme. APEX Open candidates, hybrid route candidates and anyone else interested.

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• Professional practice and CPD

  Aimed at: New academics taking the Academic Professional Programme. APEX Open candidates, hybrid route candidates and anyone else interested.

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• Peer Observations

  Aimed at: All teaching staff who are interested in getting the most out of the peer observation process

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• Panel and Board of Examiners Training 2025

  Aimed at: This session is mandatory for staff members involved Panels and Boards of Examiners - Chairs, Programme Leads, EC Representatives and Administrative Support.

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• PgCert in Academic Practice

  Aimed at: Past participants, mentors and reviewers (or any other interested staff) who wish to contribute to the development of new academic staff in relation to teaching and learning practices

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• Reflective Practice

  Aimed at: New academics taking the Academic Professional Programme. APEX Open candidates, hybrid route candidates and anyone else interested.

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• Reflective thinking and writing to enhance your teaching practice

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Reflective Journaling

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Recognising and Celebrating Your Professional Academic Identity Using Coaching Techniques

  Aimed at: Academic staff

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• Student Centred Learning Approaches

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting learning

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• SFHEA Q & A drop-in

  Aimed at: Senior Fellow Advance HE candidates who have officially registered and are working on their portfolios

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• Subject-specific academic and employability skills: A tool to succeed in HE and beyond

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Senior Fellowship: Are you thinking of applying?

  Aimed at: All those interested in finding out more about Advance HE Senior Fellowship

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• Supporting the Needs of Students: What we can learn from the Bristol University Case?

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting students as part of their role

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• Show & TEL

  Aimed at: All staff at Brunel

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• Show & TEL

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Supportive Feedback in Quizzes to Aid Student Learning

  Aimed at: Academic staff, course leads and educators

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• Supporting student learning through assessment and feedback

  Aimed at: All teaching staff

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• Supporting Students Through Data Analytics

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Transforming our pedagogical practice and students' educational experience by developing the discipline (or art?) of noticing

  Aimed at: Staff involved in teaching, assessing and/or supporting learning

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• Testing a two-dimensional model for ‘authenticated’ assessment in Higher Education

  Aimed at: All staff involved in teaching and learning

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• The Challenge of Inclusivity and Digital Approaches to Assessments: Rubrics and Feedback

  Aimed at: All staff involved in teaching and learning

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• Testing the limits of your Academic Life, or, Why you should stop talking to yourself

  Aimed at: All staff

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• The impact of ‘humanised’ teaching materials on student perspectives of disciplinary diversity and belonging

  Aimed at: All Staff

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• The ChemEng café – a pilot to enhance student experience through student-staff partnerships

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Teaching - a Journey Not a Destination

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• Understanding the ethnicity degree awarding gap

  Aimed at: All staff

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• Using generative AI to streamline your work (working title)

  Aimed at: Staff

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• Using Generative AI for Beginners

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• Using Brightspace to Monitor and Improve Student Engagement

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• Video tutorials and their use in the classroom

  Aimed at: All teaching staff

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• What is Anti-racism (Workshop 1)- CBASS

  Aimed at: Academic and Professional staff in CBASS

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• What is Anti-racism (Workshop 1)- CBASS

  Aimed at: Staff in CBASS

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• What is Anti-racism (Workshop 1)- CHMLS

  Aimed at: Academic and Professional staff in CHMLS

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• What is Anti-racism (Workshop 1)- Professional Services & CBASS Staff

  Aimed at: All Professional Services and CBASS staff

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• What is Anti-racism (Workshop 1)- Professional Services & CHMLS Staff

  Aimed at: All CHMLS and Professional Services staff

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