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Student engagement in research-led learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

What is research-led learning and teaching? Learning TO DO RESEARCH: Students learn how to develop specific or general skills as researchers – they are taught how to do their own research and undertake research themselves.

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Small group learning: building motivation, relationships and cognition with non-typical student learners

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Sarah Ward, a Lecturer in Learning in Communities at Moray House School for Education and Sport, explores the potent role of Small Group Learning (SGL) in enhancing student engagement, particularly within the MA Learning in Communities programme.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

The diversity and multicultural nature of today’s college classroom calls for use of culturally responsive practices to improve student engagement and learning (Mohammad & Nordin, 2017). 2009; Garrison & Arbaugh, 2007). But what does this look like in the higher education classroom? 2010; Swan et al.,

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Student engagement inside and outside the classroom

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Staff and three students meeting for a chat on the Coffee and Cake Conversation initiative September’s introductory blog post is written by Dr Cathy Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development. 2014) Clarifying the concept of student engagement. & Hu, S.

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Implementing Relationship-Rich Education: Theory to Practice

The Scholarly Teacher

Students engaged with material defining the characteristics of high-performing teams, including the importance of establishing psychological safety and avoiding groupthink (Cardon, 2023). When taking a collaborative quiz, the students prepared independently (e.g., Indiana University. link] Harper, S. R., & Quaye, S.

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

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Research-led teaching and learning This month, I have found defining research-led teaching and learning quite tricky as there seem to be a few interpretations of what it means in HE. Conversely, integrating research and teaching can be immensely rewarding for academics.

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Recoding for Learning: Reading Comprehension Strategies for Online Discussions

The Scholarly Teacher

Thus, class activities should provide a multilayered space where each student can contribute at their own performance level of language proficiency and higher (as much as possible,) to further progression to a higher interpretive range. works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching (1st ed.). References Ambrose, S.