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Will You Still Respect Me If I Am Not Overwhelmed?

The Scholarly Teacher

This bias is particularly salient in higher education. Including my time as a student, I have been in higher education for over 40 years. Higher education has a long history of expecting faculty members to do a lot, and then to do more—to accept one more committee assignment, advisee, or course overload. References. Fletcher, P.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Postsecondary educators have been increasingly focused on supporting positive student mental health over the past decades. Marginalized sociodemographic groups navigate more barriers and challenges (stressors) within our society, and postsecondary education institutions. Stress and Mental Health in Marginalized Sociodemographic Groups.

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

A helpful way to think about different forms of student and staff engagement – including co-creation of the curriculum – is by seeing them in a spectrum of engagement. For example, Bovill and Bulley (2011, p. For example, Bovill and Bulley (2011, p. 2017), there are also many benefits!

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Co-creation and collaboration in course design: Our journey with SACHA

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Understanding Co-creation and Collaboration Co-creation in education is all about making teaching and learning a two-way process, where the voices of both students and academic professionals are considered to design engaging and comprehensive courses ( Bovill et al., 2016 ; Mapstone et al., Ankita: I agree.

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Approaches to Equality and Diversity in Higher Education Teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Higher education in the UK is experienced differently by our diverse student cohorts. Vicky Gunn: Conceptualising the disciplines’ role in inclusive teaching practice Higher Education needs to foster disciplinary sameness and transformation simultaneously. Teaching in Higher Education. Higher Education Academy.

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The power of the interdisciplinary

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Nonetheless, in the UK, higher education largely remains structured on a conventional, disciplinary basis. Described as ā€˜one of the more contentious curriculum issues’ (Blackmore and Kandiko, 2012, p. On the other hand, interdisciplinarity poses a range of challenges to the higher education sector. References: Blackmore, P.,

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success. This approach led to the creation, success, and impact of many of the initiatives below.