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1. Old friends, new beginnings

   Today we find ourselves in uncharted territory; disorientating and unfamiliar waters leaving many of us dealing with a new routine, on the hunt for novel solutions and new ways of working. Read more...

2. Book in review: Using Simulations for Education, Training and Research (Dieckmann (ed))

   Simulation-based educators should read this book, particularly those who are involved in designing programmes of training or who are responsible for designing the simulator environment and purchasing equipment.

3. Sharing Practice – Supporting Student Collaborative Activities with Shared Documents in Office 365

   Faculty colleague Andrew Kennedy has kindly offered to share his experiences of using shared documents on Office 365 both to support student group assessments and also to facilitate active and engaging shared writing and proof reading activities.

4. Sharing Practice – The Faculty of Health Immersive Room

   We would like to highlight the Faculty Immersive Room and share some of the practice happening within it.

5. Welcome to 2020 – Panopto quizzes

   There is a recent flipped learning case study on the University of Sussex TEL blog. Sussex have recently introduced Panopto and also use Canvas so you may find this interesting and useful.

6. Now Available: Elsevier Clinical Skills

   A summary of Elsevier Clinical Skills and information for Faculty of Health colleagues regarding accessing the platform

7. Sharing Practice – Screencasts and role-play to support distance taught students

   For six years this faculty has been running a distance taught programme in Athens which straddles the two notions of distance and face to face teaching.

8. Beverston Enginnering

   Read more about the collaboration between Beverston Engineering and LCR 4.0 working closely together we were able to develop a package of work, concentrating upon technologies which could have significant impact upon component accuracy improvement and waste reduction within the CNC manufacturing process.

9. Energy Fairies

   Read more about the collaboration between Energy Fairies and LCR 4.0 to further develop their Flutter Shutter solution. Notably the Energy Fairy team wanted to specifically concentrate upon iterative design and test development of their envisaged smart sun tracking feature.

10. Greenbank Sports Academy

    Read more about the collaboration between Greenbank Sports Academy (GSA) and LCR 4.0. GSA sought to develop a user friendly sports wheelchair which could be used to play power hockey and wheelchair football – which they have since named as ‘The Equaliser’.