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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). Online students can feel a sense of isolation, and a well-designed online course can help overcome this by designing activities and opportunities for them to participate in and contribute to online communities. Magjuka, R.J.,

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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and PTAS

Teaching Matters Online Learning

One of the ways of getting people involved in SoTL, is through schemes which provide funding and support for academics to try out and evaluate innovations or to research their students’ learning. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Emotional labour in academia: The unspoken burden

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As Shuler (2007) aptly points out, “[as] scholars and practitioners… we often write as if WE are not also engaging in emotional labor” (p. Moreover, as Bellas and Krupnick (2007) found, this burden is disproportionately weighted on women. This is the core of the issue. 2013), yet it’s rarely acknowledged or valued. Bellas, M.

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