Birkbeck Digital Education

We are delighted to announce that the official opening of Birkbeck's Immersive Learning Centre (ILC) took place at a ceremony attended by Baroness Chakrabarti and Vice Chancellor Sally Wheeler and celebrated by staff, students and alumni 📸🏆

For many of our modules and courses, you can choose whether to attend in person or online. Birkbeck's HyFlex technology allows you to take part fully in live teaching sessions, whether you are in a classroom or somewhere else. Check out our HyFlex video: youtube.com/watch?v=cLNoK7…

HRH The Princess Royal officially opened Birkbeck Central this week, celebrating a major milestone in our newly refurbished development. The tour included a visit to our HyFlex classrooms and a showcase of our Immersive Learning Centre highlighting the future of education #hyflex

🎙️New episode alert! Interim CIO Sean Green joins Prof. Joanne Leal & host Lucy Trewinnard reflect on Birkbeck’s first AI Summit🏔️Discover how the event is shaping strategy on Generative AI & driving innovation across the university here: tinyurl.com/bdhfhuvh #BirkbeckAI

During Arts Week🎨staff & students were immersed in Impulse: Playing with Reality, a powerful mixed reality experience exploring life with ADHD. Hosted by the Immersive Learning team🧑‍💻Watch how VR can help deepen empathy & transform learning in this video tinyurl.com/mtn8bc53

Curious about what it’s like to work in a digital learning field? 💡Tune into this episode of Unfiltered by @MpowerEDWebinar, where Adele and Pip 👩‍💻share their journeys through Digital Education—exploring curiosity, creativity, and career pathways here!🔊tinyurl.com/3n3crta6

The Teaching & Learning Conference celebrated its third successful year with over 120 attendees joining online and in person across two impactful days. Huge thanks to our speakers and participants for making it another inspiring event!

Don't forget to pop over to the Immersive Learning Centre stand this coming Open Day on Saturday 26 April to learn about Birkbeck's new VR facilities, production equipment and software that will be available next academic year! #immersive #vr

We're very excited that its only 2 months until our always very busy Teaching & Learning Conference begins, where the themes are going to be focused around Teaching, Assessing, & Engaging for the Next Five Years. If you're staff make sure to book here: tinyurl.com/3zd3jw64

We're excited to host our second annual Climate Festival this March! 🌍 Through a series of in-person & online events, the festival promises to spark fresh ideas around sustainability & the difference people can make both locally & globally. See what's on: ow.ly/kRPn50VbJPq

🚀 Birkbeck Team Secures ESA Funding! An all-women team, led by @MaryamBHaq with @ElisaRFerre, will conduct the first human experiment on ESA’s Orbital Robotics Lab, studying brain stimulation to aid astronauts. @bbkpsychology 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4i1ggMR

26 Meta Quest Pro 3 headsets have been delivered to the Immersive Learning Centre which is set to open this Spring. We look forward to increasing learning beyond the classroom for Birkbeck students through immersive experiences. Message us to find out more #meta #immersive

BBK Students! Fine out about all our accessibility tools such as Recite Me and Sensus access which allows Moodle content to be translated, read aloud, adjusted and convert documents in to alternate formats. All available on Learning Online here - tiny.cc/15p8001

Birkbeck students - Enhance your studies and boost your career potential with free access to LinkedIn Learning courses. As a Birkbeck student you automatically benefit from a free subscription to LinkedIn Learning. To do this activate your account here - rb.gy/ycl0q1

BBK Staff! Don't forget this year’s edition of the Digital Education Advent Calendar is ready for you to open! Throughout December, you’ll be able to uncover helpful digital education tips from our team, along with jokes to get you in the festive spirit. shorturl.at/SbgNN

This is not just the end of the era but a start to a new one! The Recording Suite team have started the move from the bottom floor to the top of Birkbeck Central where there is more space and a second room for a podcasting suite. We will be back up and running soon! #podcast

Huge congratulations to our very own James Cull (Staff), for presenting our plans and progress for the Immersive Learning Centre at Birkbeck, at the Meta Education Community Conference. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive! What a great photo of James in full swing #meta

Explore the HyFlex for Students course to help you maximise your HyFlex learning experience! This Moodle course is developed by students to provide guidance and advice on HyFlex learning, whether you attend online or on campus. Click the link below: shorturl.at/h2e8J

The Beyond the Classroom Virtual Reality and Immersive Learning session welcomed many students over the course of Orientation Day to trial our VR and ThingLink experiences! Here are a couple pictures of attendees in action. We are looking forward to next time! #VirtualReality

Orientation Day is just around the corner. Don't forget to visit our Digital Education team stand tomorrow for advice and to book our Beyond the Classroom Virtual Reality and Immersive Learning Event here - bit.ly/3Y9xTCG