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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities. For these reasons, I selected this as the measure of choice utilized within my research. .

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Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

It is difficult to draw just one conclusion from the research I have read. As more and more people achieve a degree, students feel the pressure of being required to attain more skills and experience to transition into the world of work ( Silently Stressed, NUS , Roulin & Bangerter, 2011). So, what does this mean? Traphagen, T.,

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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. 176 – 188). Teaching in Higher Education , 1-18.

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

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Ankita Chattopadhyay is a recent graduate with an MSc by Research (MScR) in Infection Medicine (Biomedical Sciences). Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design. Some staff fear losing control over curriculum and teaching methods. references Bovill, C.,

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

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Research has shown that anxiety associated with learning maths on these mostly humanities/social science-based degrees may not be uncommon (Macheski et al, 2006; Brush, 1978). Essentially, we want our students to be part of the club where they can challenge established research. So what can we do about this? References Brush, L.

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The power of the interdisciplinary

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities: Global Trends. The role of interdisciplinarity in training the next generation of researchers”. References: Blackmore, P., and Kandiko, C. London, New York: Routledge. Strober, M. Interdisciplinary conversations – challenging habits of thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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Teaching activities that bring out the best in students – shouldn’t we all strive for that?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

By actively observing and reflecting on the adventures and challenges in unfamiliar learning zones, abstract thinking is developed, which can be used in new and broader real-world situations. Akkerman & Bakker (2011) find that transformation, and thus learning, requires “continuous joint work at the boundary” (p.149), Cooley, S.