Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Sarah Ward, a Lecturer in Learning in Communities at Moray House School for Education and Sport, explores the potent role of Small Group Learning (SGL) in enhancing student engagement, particularly within the MA Learning in Communities programme.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 5, 2024

For years I have been using Visual Journals as a tool and the visual journaling process as a critical component of my teaching and learning practice to procure meaning-making, metacognitive awareness, and assessment of student learning within the arts and arts education. 2013; Nieto, 2009).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Key Statement: This article offers strategies that can be used to provide an environment for students to interact and connect during virtual sessions and allow students to feel as if they are taking an active role in their education. A main component of successful teaching and learning is student engagement (Khan et al.,

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In the classroom, this subject is typically discussed in only a handful of courses, although educational opportunities exist in many courses across a variety of disciplines. Chemical education has already embraced gamification through such diverse tools as board games (Montejo Bernardo et al., Acknowledgments. REFERENCES: Bayir, E., &

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The college also offers a 3+2 Engineering Program , where students spend three years at Earlham before transferring to an affiliated university, such as Columbia or Case Western Reserve, to complete an engineering degree. Small Class Sizes With a 9:1 student-faculty ratio , Earlham offers personalized attention and mentoring opportunities.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 2, 2024

Leveraging a University’s Brand Identity as a Key Differentiator in Online Higher Education Online learning blossomed at the turn of the millennium. Then, we develop unique value propositions (UVPs) and creative messaging themes to highlight the distinct aspects of the university that will appeal to potential students.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 7, 2019

Lectures provide the theoretical concepts that students then can use as tools to understand social mechanisms contributing to failures in care as described in inquiry reports (e.g., Francis 2013; McLean 2014). 2013) Report of the inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation NHS Trust. References Francis, R. McLean, (2014).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Photo credit: Cytonn Photography, Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, Catherine Bovill introduces the new 2021-22 Student Partnership Agreement and Funding Scheme and its three key areas of focus. Dr Bovill is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Image credit: Patrick Perkins, unsplash, cc0 In this extra post, Jane Hislop and Tim Fawns from The University of Edinburgh’s Medical School continue conversation on effective feedback by spotlighting the success of their online MSc Clinical Education course. 1) and generate their own internal feedback. References Boud, D.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MAY 21, 2020

It’s quite common for students to have misconceptions about what is wanted (Sadler, 2010). Dialogue between students and teachers (and between students) about what makes for good academic work is crucial (Nicol, 2010; Anderson and McCune, 2013). Could your students contribute to Wikipedia together. and McCune, V.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 9, 2017

Zuzanna demonstrates how to use a UV-vis spectrophotometer Peer feedback means that students get a chance to review their work, there is a possibility to review work in situ, making changes based on suggestions before submitting the final video for assessment (see Hendry (2013) and Sander and Good (2006). and Taras M. (ed.),

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 23, 2020

To some degree, this feedback is perfectly understandable: students are asked to do derivations at exams and observing how a professional physicist tackles a derivation is not dissimilar to an apprentice observing a master when learning a craft. While some institutions are developing approaches for more advanced courses (e.g. Gutfreund and V.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

” Outside of the education program at USC Aiken, nearly all of Walsh’s professors lecture nearly all the time, he says. Regarding students’ other concerns, Salazar recalls the work of psychologist Ella R. What is lifeload? ” The next step?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

“I’ve observed the level of bipartisan support for these issues increasing over the last couple of years, which is really promising,” said Rodd Monts, director of state policy for SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit organization that works to help young people overcome homelessness through education.

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Campus Groups

MAY 10, 2022

Living in Columbus, Ohio, she holds a Master of Education from Ohio University. Maria is passionate about student affairs and success. With over 8 years of experience in higher education she has held several roles in this space. Anthony has over eight years of experience in higher education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Photo credit: Flip Design Agency Following on from her earlier post this year , Zoe Patterson, Programme Director for Graphic Design at ECA, describes another student engagement initiative that benefits both undergraduate and school students… What the f**k is Graphic Design? Sep 13, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 30, 2022

As our students have told me over the last 20 years ‘classism is all over campus – but nobody wants to talk about it’. As Diane Reay (2016a) writes, social class in Higher Education is still the elephant in the room. As Davidson et al (2013) remind us, ‘campus relationships matter. References Darder, A. Piketty, T. Roberts, P.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Marion explains: I was heavily involved in the design and implementation of the new undergraduate MA in Health, Science and Society in 2013-2014. Nature, Greenspace and Health builds on our previous success with Learning from the Lives of Others (SHSS08003). These were: A genuine contribution to communities local to the University.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In addition, the blogs allowed us to map how students use of lecture recording changes over the course of the year, including how they tended to experiment with their use of lecture recordings during term-time. Veterinary students get stressed. 2013) but from personal experience! I had several thought-provoking discussions.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Konstantina Zerva is a Facilitator in Technology Enhanced Mathematical Education at the School of Mathematics. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Edinburgh and Loughborough University collaborated to develop online workbooks for the Mathematics education in STEM fields.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Although success has been limited so far, there is a clear correlation between how much a tutor promotes and uses BluePulse and whether students engage with it or not. Graeme Ferris Graeme joined the Business School as a learning technologist in 2013 and is currently the manager of the School’s Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Art of Vet Student, a joint student/staff initiative, has been running at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies since 2013. Art of Vet Student” aims to give vet students a creative medium to express what being a Vet student is all about as well as being fun!

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

The Making Transitions Personal (MTP) Pre-arrival and Start-of-year Reviews is an initiative that aims to support this through a set of targeted reflective questions given to students before the start of the academic year. or gavin.mccabe@ed.ac.uk

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 16, 2019

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.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

I’d recently taken on the role of senior tutor for the Geography undergraduate students and I’d decided to rethink how we run the personal tutor group meetings. Student attendance at group meetings had been patchy and many colleagues became frustrated at the lack of student engagement. Gauntlett, D. McCusker, S.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Over the past two years, my co-author, Leo Lambert, and I interviewed nearly 400 people across American higher education including more than 200 students as well as academic staff and leaders from 28 diverse institutions. higher education. Students will struggle and stumble as they learn.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Over the past two years, my co-author, Leo Lambert, and I interviewed nearly 400 people across American higher education including more than 200 students as well as academic staff and leaders from 28 diverse institutions. higher education. Students will struggle and stumble as they learn.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Image credit: iStock In this post, Dr Avita Rath explores the topic of emotional labour, and its impact for those working in Higher Education. Avita is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School. 2013), yet it’s rarely acknowledged or valued. This is the core of the issue.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

Design Agency allows students on the Graphic Design programme to graduate with four years of full-time education with an honours degree and, simultaneously, four years of work experience. Each year, senior students team together in Creative Director roles to form their own profit-generating agencies. Jun 7, 2018

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Undergraduate students engage in research about a wide range of subjects including the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) History Project. We published this in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2013), and we wrote a press release. It also includes issues of racial bias in educational and law enforcement contexts.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 23, 2025

If you want to know more details, the findings reported above have been accepted for publication in Education for Chemical Engineers Elsevier journal in the following link: 10.1016/j.ece.2024.12.004 2024.12.004 Acknowledgments First of all, the biggest thanks go to our CEL3 AY22/23 students cohort.

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