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Developing graduate attributes in a landscape of practices

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Credit image: Sergey Pesterev, unsplash, CC0 In this extra post, Lindsay Knox reflects on her EdD dissertation findings, which look at how international students on the MSc Language Education programme understand graduate attributes, and what this could mean for curriculum transformation. Higher Education , 40, 409-422.

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What the f**k is Graphic Design?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

What better way for my final year students, products of the successful peer intensive curriculum, to test their skills outside of the University setting. Creative problem solving, risk taking, lateral thinking, communication, project management, amongst the many core design skills this student employed in order to fulfil this unique ‘task’.

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Working with alumnae teachers to prepare student teachers for professional practice

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I still am a teacher in higher education, but I feel that my words do not have nearly as much impact as those of practising teachers when it comes to preparation for professional practice. Deborah Holt Dr Deborah Holt is a Bicentennial Fellow in the Moray House School of Education and Sport. I was a school teacher. Jul 9, 2019

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Surfacing and accelerating learning: introducing the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It also seeks to enhance the learning and development opportunities these activities provide and encourage students to see the relevance of these activities in preparing them for their future. We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity.

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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

” Briana Pegado (final year student 2013/14 and EUSA President 2014/15) The success of these early trials encouraged further pilots on several large mainstream courses across the University to evaluate the impact this may have on students in developing a deeper understanding of how to effectively use assessment and feedback in their learning.

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Graphic Design in a Box

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Since that time she has maintained her professional practice and developed her research in the field of education. This has manifest itself in a number of design and teaching projects, the most significant of which won The Guardian University Award for Employability in 2013.

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Transcending international boundaries online to create a global community

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Many students are new to online learning when they first start studying with us. Sheng Xiangjun from China, says that her view on the credibility of online learning changed after taking the MSc in Digital Education: The discussion in the forums and the assignment comments from tutors and peers were very interesting and enlightening.