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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. Kuh, G.D. &

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Implementing Relationship-Rich Education: Theory to Practice

The Scholarly Teacher

Along with providing opportunities for developing meaningful relationships, collaborative quizzes serve to meet standard course learning objectives, such as “Collaborate within team environments to deliver effective messages.” When taking a collaborative quiz, the students prepared independently (e.g., Cardon, P. McGraw-Hill.

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Collegiate commentary: Five take-aways from 'Embedding Enterprise in the Curriculum' series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Helping students develop these capacities and skills whilst at university will certainly give them a head start in their career. It’s the four or five “in the middle” who either have not thought about it or have not considered it as an option who are the ones that we are interested in engaging with to help them explore their potential.

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Geoscience Outreach: What we do, how we assess, and client/student reflections

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Through these workshops, students and staff from different disciplines and Schools across the University work together, leading to cross-fertilisation of ideas and cultures. Our assessment involves tasks that resemble workplace settings yet equip students with skills for their future professional life. How is the course assessed?

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Visual Journaling

The Scholarly Teacher

As students become affirmed and validated for their perspectives and contextualizing personal experiences within the learning process, agency and autonomy emerge (Glass et al., 2013; Nieto, 2009). class conversations, online discussion boards, service-learning opportunities). Harvard Educational Review , 83 (1), 98–119. Kantawala, A.