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Assessing students through online role-playing

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Role-playing can be used to directly link learning to a students’ real life experience, while also being a safe space to explore challenging opinions (Oberle 2004). Higher Education Research & Development , 27(1), pp.55-67. References Hounsell, D., Hounsell, J. and Litjens, J., The quality of guidance and feedback to students.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Planned Happenstance Theory of Career (Krumboltz & Levin, 2004) is a popular choice and seems particularly prescient just now, echoing changes that are being forecast for the future of work. Our approaches are grounded in a variety of career theories and we weave these in as appropriate, choosing what fits the student and situation.

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Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Others argue that the correlation between lecture attendance and performance is weak at best (Horton, Wiederman, & Saint, 2012; Walbeek, 2004). Educational Technology Research and Development , 58 (1), 19–37. T he student perspective on employability. Studies in Higher Education , 38 (6), 841–856. Walbeek, C.

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Mini-series: Belonging in the new biology curriculum

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Beyond just lacking opportunities for integration, many students lack the cultural capital vital to belonging (Nora 2004). Developing Belonging, Community and Creating Professional Identity. The trips are designed to be fun, of interest to students (e.g. Routledge, pp.

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Tracking progress from afar

Teaching Matters Online Learning

She has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2004, and has recently completed the Edinburgh Teaching Award towards Senior Fellow. Paula has written blogs for the Educational Design and Engagement team. Jan 31, 2018

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open access works can be made available through OA publishers and/or OA repositories ( Suber 2004 ). Two reasons from a teaching perspective are that using OA resources is of benefit to students for their current studies and future engagement with academic research and theory for professional development.

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Academic language and literacy for participation in postgraduate law programmes

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

CUP, 2004) Ryan, J. Improving teaching and learning practices for international students – Implications for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment’ in Carroll, J. References Utley, D. Intercultural Resource Pack. and Ryan, J.