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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

2007) with benefits for the observer as much as the person being observed (Siddiqui et al., It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes. Nurse Education Today, 14, 299-305. J Med Educ, 58, 457 – 461.

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

2007; Deng & Yuen, 2011), particularly reflective writing (Hemmi, Bayne, & Land, 2009), and learning to write for particular real or imagined audiences (Ross, 2014; Gogia, 2016). The appropriation and repurposing of social technologies in higher education. Studies in Higher Education , 39 (2), 219–232.

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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). Quarterly Review of Distance Education , 8(1), pp. Celeste McLaughlin Celeste McLaughlin is Head of Academic Development for Digital Education, based at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD). References Liu, X.,

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Mini-series: A summary of recently published lecture recording papers

Teaching Matters Academic Support

2007) that educational maturity may be a key factor in assessing the impact of lecture recordings and attendance. Higher Education , 1-19, [link]. Higher Education. Our results accord with the suggestion of Phillips et al. Nordmann, E., Irwin, A., & Comber, D.

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Emotional labour in academia: The unspoken burden

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Image credit: iStock In this post, Dr Avita Rath explores the topic of emotional labour, and its impact for those working in Higher Education. Avita is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School. International Journal of Allied Health Sciences Education , 6 (1), 22–26.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Further, rates of death by suicide for Black youth have risen since 2007 at a rate that is faster than any other racial/ethnic group. This call is for both in-service practitioners and training programs in higher education in order to prepare current and future generations of practitioners to respond to the mental health needs of Black youth.