Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There is evidence that many students appreciate and benefit from interactive lectures (Huxham, 2005; Revell and Wainwright, 2009). Many staff at the University of Edinburgh are already adopting highly engaging approaches to lectures, but can we try to transform all lectures to make them unmissable? References Bates, S.P., Howie, K. &

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 7, 2019

In the Professionalism 4 course, approximately four students are allocated to each study circle. At the end of the course, criteria-based facilitated group discussions are used to explore students’ engagement with the process. Each group meets with the course organiser who facilitates the discussion. McLean, (2014).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 23, 2019

Emma Bush, Master of Architecture fieldtrip to Cadiz, Spain, 2006. 4 Fieldtrips are often a memorable dimension of higher education. Field/work can be seen as a form of itinerant education where students are learning to navigate professional distance alongside personal proximity.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 28, 2022

Image credit: Sheldon from Big Bang Theory – meme from ProgrammerHumor Reddit community In this post, Phil Marston looks at a way of helping students provide what markers are looking for and for markers to provide the feedback students find useful. 2011) The Mythology of Feedback, Higher Education Research and Development, Vol.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 9, 2017

Zuzanna demonstrates how to use a UV-vis spectrophotometer Peer feedback means that students get a chance to review their work, there is a possibility to review work in situ, making changes based on suggestions before submitting the final video for assessment (see Hendry (2013) and Sander and Good (2006). and Taras M. (ed.),

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 24, 2022

How can we enable students to engage productively and proactively with their communities as agents for change while also ensuring a much wider tangible legacy for their work? These questions are centrally relevant to the wider aims and purposes of tertiary education. What do we do? How is the course assessed?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 19, 2023

In a follow up blog post, I share my experience using an asynchronous platform by drawing from Nicol and MacFarlane’s feedback principles (Nicol and MacFarlane-Dick, 2006). The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback. Assessment and evaluation in higher education, 43 , 1315-1325. DEELEY, S.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr Avita Rath is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School. Design I designed a formative peer feedback activity for year 3 undergraduate dental students around a few periodontics topics using Padlet; an interactive, collaborative learning platform. 2022) is all they can offer.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Don't miss out on actively engaging Latine/x students. degrees by the year 2030.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 1, 2021

This resource draws on research at the intersection of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Digital Education, and Film and Media Studies. The ways that students emotionally experience digital video impacts the approach they take to learning and ultimately the outcomes of that learning. High Educ 55 , 321–332 (2008).

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

by Sam Elkington and Jill Dickinson Wednesday September 13 th was the final instalment of the three-part SRHE ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposia series, delivered in partnership with series co-convenors Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 12, 2019

Context, story and journey are very important in creating an inclusive culture – not to mention a more diverse legal profession should students choose to enter that field. Set up in 2006, its pilot year was funded by FE/HE Articulation Funding but thereafter it was embedded within, and funded by, ELS.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Student perceptions, of course, are just that. But the one-quarter finding matches up with how Julian Dautremont of AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, describes higher ed’s commitment. “These are issues students do care about,” says Antle.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

According to the United Negro College Fund, a college education produces community-oriented individuals. As of 2006, there were already between 6,000 and 7,000 studies of the impact of college on students. The most significant divide in American society today is between the college educated and non-college graduates.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 28, 2025

Avita is an alumni of the MSc Clinical Education at Edinburgh Medical School, and currently a Senior Lecturer and periodontist at the Faculty of Dentistry, SEGi University, Malaysia. That was my first thought when I was invited to speak on a podcast exploring personal journeys into Health Professions Education (HPE). Ajjawi et al.

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