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It Is Time to Stop Teaching and Focus on Facilitating Learning

The Scholarly Teacher

Let’s try this same scenario with a focus on facilitating learning, starting with backward design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Again, all about teaching, teaching, and teaching. The first step of backward design is to identify the desired outcome for the learner.

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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Image credit: author Noel Entwistle Noel Entwistle is Professor Emeritus of Education at The University of Edinburgh and previously was the Bell Professor (1978-2005). Before that he was Professor of Educational Research (1970-1978) at the Lancaster University.

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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Image credit: author Noel Entwistle Noel Entwistle is Professor Emeritus of Education at The University of Edinburgh and previously was the Bell Professor (1978-2005). Before that he was Professor of Educational Research (1970-1978) at the Lancaster University.

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Academic language and literacy for participation in postgraduate law programmes

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

‘Improving teaching and learning practices for international students – Implications for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment’ in Carroll, J. and Ryan, J. A SFHEA (EdTA), he coordinates and teaches on ELE’s academic language and literacies (ALL) provision in cooperation with Schools in CAHSS.

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Recapturing the excitement of lectures

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

There is evidence that many students appreciate and benefit from interactive lectures (Huxham, 2005; Revell and Wainwright, 2009). 2005) Learning in lectures: do ‘interactive windows’ help? References Bates, S.P., Howie, K. & & Murphy, A. New Directions 2 (Dec) 1-8. Active Learning in Higher Education 6 (1) 17-31. Revell, A. &

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

Teaching Matters Online Learning

2007; Dolnicar, 2005). There is evidence that lecture attendance may be due to students making a deliberate choice about whether the lecture will benefit them (Billings-Gagliardi et al., It is difficult to draw just one conclusion from the research I have read. Student reactions to classroom lecture capture. Dolnicar, S.

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Transcending international boundaries online to create a global community

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

On a practical level, studying online is convenient; it enables individuals to maintain professional and personal commitments without relocating.