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Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing: Team building in Higher Education

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Trowler (2008) identifies an issue that I too have experienced where the students appear to look bored and I worry that my content, delivery, approach has led to this. Sharing worries or concerns about my teaching and listening to others interpretations of what happens in teaching have helped me to clarify or reframe what I experience.

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Welcome to the October issue of Teaching Matters: Research-led teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

.” So, at an instrumentally beneficial level, “research-led teaching reflects and makes use of the teacher’s disciplinary research to benefit student learning and outcomes” (Trowler & Wareham, 2008). 2008) Tribes, territories, research and teaching: Enhancing the teaching-research nexus , HEA. & Wareham, T.

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Explaining Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Access

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Suber, 2008 ). Open access is a mechanism by which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Why online dissertations can provide such profound and transformative learning

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As discussed in a previous post , Kelly Smith, a recent graduate of the MSc Clinical Education, in her dissertation, chose to look at what factors were important in the development of a positive online supervisory relationship.

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Interdisciplinarity in the age of data: Teaching data analysis and statistics in the social sciences

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Statistics Anxiety and Science Attitudes: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity Factors. College Student Journal, 45 (3), 573-585. Macheski, G. Buhrmann, J., Lowney, K. S., & Bush, M. Overcoming Student Disengagement and Anxiety in Theory, Methods, and Statistics Courses by Building a Community of Learners. Teaching Sociology , 36 (1), 42–48.

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Podcast: Podcasts in Education with Emily O’Reilly & Andrew Strankman – Part 1 (52 mins)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Emily qualified as a veterinarian from the University of Glasgow in 2008 and returned after two years in general practice to complete a PhD in broiler chicken immunity. She contributes to the undergraduate global health and infectious disease course and has supervised over 30 MSc student projects to date.

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Podcast: Podcasts in Education with Emily O'Reilly & Andrew Strankman – Part 1 (52 mins)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Emily qualified as a veterinarian from the University of Glasgow in 2008 and returned after two years in general practice to complete a PhD in broiler chicken immunity. She contributes to the undergraduate global health and infectious disease course and has supervised over 30 MSc student projects to date.