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Welcome to the May-June Learning and Teaching Enhancement Theme: Student Voice in Practice

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

As co-editor of this series Student Voice in Practice series, I am excited to introduce this c omprehensive collection of blog posts that offer insight and examples of how various activities can support Student Voice in practice, as well as reflections on the challenges involved. References Cook-Sather, A. link] Cook-Sather, A.,

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Choice Meets Academic Emotions

The Scholarly Teacher

2002) was used as a pre- and post-survey bracketing assignments to gauge the students’ perceptions of the course. PCASS post survey results indicated that students reported having a more positive perceptions after the product and process choice assignments. The Academic Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ; Pekrun et al.,

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The uniqueness of learning: Rethinking the meaning of student-centred education

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Moreover, learner motivation to reflect upon experiences and actively construct their own understanding might differ based on temporary psychosomatic conditions, which in turn impact factors that affect intrinsic motivation, such as perceived control and task value (Eccles & Wigfield, 2002). Medical Education , 53 (1), 15–24. Eccles, J.

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Building online academic communities

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Building online communities can help with student engagement and satisfaction (Lui et al, 2007). Online students can feel a sense of isolation, and a well-designed online course can help overcome this by designing activities and opportunities for them to participate in and contribute to online communities. 9-24,87-88.

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The uniqueness of learning: Rethinking the meaning of student-centred education

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Moreover, learner motivation to reflect upon experiences and actively construct their own understanding might differ based on temporary psychosomatic conditions, which in turn impact factors that affect intrinsic motivation, such as perceived control and task value (Eccles & Wigfield, 2002). Medical Education , 53 (1), 15–24. Eccles, J.

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A quiet, unnoticed form of gentle solidarity

Teaching Matters Academic Support

These stories illustrate just a few of the daily experiences of our students, but they are not anecdotal; I have 20 years’ worth of stories. Rather, they simply express what it’s like to be on campus as a working class student. You can see this clearly from the few stories shared above. Bloomsbury Publishing. Langhout, R. Piketty, T.

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Adding interactivity in mathematics online workbooks using JSXGraph in STACK

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The HELM project HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) is a collection of 50 workbooks developed by five English universities – Loughborough, Hull, Reading, Sunderland and Manchester – between 2002 and 2005. HELM resources cover the curriculum of first and second year mathematics courses for engineering undergraduates [1].