Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Keeping students engaged in class is an age-old struggle. An assistant professor at Yale University who recently tweeted to ask other professors if they're playing music before class, and what students think, got more than 1,000 replies.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JUNE 10, 2024

Execution and impact With support from team and faculty when needed, I led student-related data gathering, analysis, and communication, facilitated brainstorming sessions, conducted surveys and interviews, and co-wrote sections on student engagement. Stay tuned! You can contact any of our authors for more information.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Bridging the gap: The la unch and expansion of dissertation buddies Navigating a one-year Postgraduate Taught (PGT) study in the UK presents unique challenges, especially during the dissertation or major project phase (Huang, 2007). The programme has been developed and enhanced each year and regularly has around 200 students participating.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, markmags, CC0 Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters, which showcases findings from recent projects that research learning and teaching practices at the University of Edinburgh. Rather, it is a way for them to make sense of their own teaching and their students’ learning, drawing on the principles of research.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 19, 2023

Feedback is the lynchpin to making sense of any form of assessment and “is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement” (Hattie and Timperley, 2007). Such formats aid student motivation and are suitable for a large cohort (Ryan, 2018). Review of Educational Research, 77 , 81-112. HATTIE, J. &

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Combining insights from her own investigations of posthuman materialities with critical contributions by Braidotti (2019), Barad (2007), Delanda (2006) and Bennett (2010), Carol moved to trouble normalised and common sense ideas about knowledge-making and space.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 30, 2019

Biodiversity at Pollock Halls – apiary (Elizabeth Vander Meer) As a sub-strategy of the Zero by 2040 Climate Change Strategy, we are taking a whole institution approach to biodiversity that includes research, learning and teaching.

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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. Shield, B. M., & Dockrell, J.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 17, 2018

Elizabeth has been employed by the University of Edinburgh in policy and research management roles since 2007, in diverse areas such as e-science and carbon capture and storage. In her current role, Elizabeth develops University climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity strategy, implementation plans and reporting.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

Elizabeth has been employed by the University of Edinburgh in policy and research management roles since 2007, in diverse areas such as e-science and carbon capture and storage. In her current role, Elizabeth develops University climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity strategy, implementation plans and reporting.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 30, 2022

We can think about the ‘two potential domains of classism as institutional classism and interpersonal classism’ (Langhout et al, 2007). While at the interpersonal level, we can think of the interactions that students have with other students as well as staff. You can see this clearly from the few stories shared above.

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 16, 2023

My ADHD Transfer Story When I began college as a photography major at Columbia College Chicago in 2007, I was incredibly excited. While research is limited, preliminary results show that binaural beats can help increase focus and assist with homework completion. A few more Helpful Humans!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By directly involving high school students in the design of their future educational experiences, REP4 demonstrates a proactive approach to student engagement. Moreover, advancements in digital learning technologies are not just buzzwords but tangible tools reshaping the educational landscape. the iPhone was released in 2007.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Imagine, for a moment, the demanding life of a dental academic like myself, or any academic for that matter: you’re expected to be a skilled clinician, a mentor, a teacher, a researcher, and a leader – all at once. Moreover, as Bellas and Krupnick (2007) found, this burden is disproportionately weighted on women. Bellas, M.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

I realise this is a contentious claim, but I draw on a range of evidence to argue that student involvement has been linked to a range of benefits. They found statistically significant results that the use of name tents enhanced student motivation and learning, and made it more likely students would approach staff to ask for help.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2007 , Gert Biesta explained clearly ‘Why what works won’t work’. Despite Biesta’s wise words, today the pressure upon university educators to fix educational issues – to resolve students’ dissatisfaction with feedback, to ‘solve’ student engagement, remains stronger than ever. It is easy to understand why.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Business – conversely, the University has been at the forefront of AI research and it would seem strange that it did not allow colleagues to innovate with AI. Ethical and Social – the process that AI uses is not transparent and could be seen as unfair and not aligned with University values. Feb 14, 2025

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The importance of establishing early relationships with prospective students, engaging them, and getting them excited about the institution was highlighted as a key strategy in the admissions process. Crisis in Student Debt and Institutional Finance 2023 was marked by substantial financial challenges within higher education.

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