Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It can be hard for these academics to maintain their sense of academic identity, so I was delighted when one participant told me that the course had made her want to engage in research again. [1] 1] Lea, M. R., & Street, B. The “Academic Literacies” model: Theory and applications. Theory into Practice , 45(4), 368-377. [2]

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It can be hard for these academics to maintain their sense of academic identity, so I was delighted when one participant told me that the course had made her want to engage in research again. [1] 1] Lea, M. R., & Street, B. The “Academic Literacies” model: Theory and applications. Theory into Practice , 45(4), 368-377. [2]

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Peer Instruction is a teaching technique commonly used in physics courses (Dancy and Henderson, 2010) and across STEM courses in general at The University of Edinburgh. FILL was designed with a focus on ‘Peer Instruction’ (Mazur, 1999). References Dancy. and Henderson. American Journal of Physics. link] Mazur. 67, 359.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Since 2010, she has been working in a range of Initial Teacher Education programmes as lecturer, course organiser and programme director. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate Initial Teacher Education programmes. Deborah Holt Dr Deborah Holt is a Bicentennial Fellow in the Moray House School of Education and Sport.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In her literature review on student engagement, Vicki Trowler (2010) argues that “Engagement is more than involvement or participation – it requires feelings and sensemaking as well as activity” (p.5). Relating this back to Trowler’s points about engagement, we found that by giving extrinsic rewards for behavior (i.e.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 16, 2019

Lauren Johnston-Smith Lauren Johnston-Smith is Online Learning Marketing Project Manager in the Learning Teaching and Web division of Information Services at the University of Edinburgh, where she identifies, delivers and champions development projects to enhance the presence of the University’s online learning portfolio.

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