The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 5, 2024

In this piece, I want to highlight another significant facet of this tool, which is the ability to amplify and empower students’ authentic voice and self-efficacy. 2013; Nieto, 2009). class conversations, online discussion boards, service-learning opportunities). Teaching visual culture. Teachers College Press. Neil Gaiman quotes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

However, MSIs also report lower-than-national-average graduation and retention rates, reflecting continued systemic challenges (both socioeconomic and political) shaping underrepresented students’ experiences of higher education (Flores & Park, 2013). Clearly, there’s real need to better serve underserved student communities.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Although instructors may be accustomed to methods of engaging students in a face-to-face environment, creating an engaging virtual classroom can be challenging. According to Schaufeli (2013), engagement refers to involvement, focused effort, dedication, and absorption. Employee engagement in theory and practice.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Finding ways to engage in these broad issues will allow students to connect their personal decision-making with the opportunities and challenges afforded by our dependence on critical metals. Systems thinking allows students to consider an item or process to consider how it interacts with systems tangential to it.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The college maintains its commitment to principles such as integrity, peace, social justice, and community engagement, which shape both its academic and extracurricular life. Through programs like the Center for Social Justice and the Bonner Scholars Program , Earlham students engage in community service projects throughout Richmond.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 2, 2024

It experienced a slow but steady rise over the next 20 years, with 1 in 4 college students taking at least one online class by 2012 and more than half of students taking online classes by 2022 after the pandemic hastened the trend, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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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). This process can be tough for students. 2013) Report of the inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation NHS Trust.

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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

The importance of moving away from viewing feedback as transmission of information, and a product passively received from teachers, to an active process that students engage with (Winstone et al. 2022) is well recognised in the literature (Boud and Molloy, 2013; Carless and Boud, 2018; Winstone and Carless, 2019). and Molloy, E.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

1 barrier to academic success cited by students in the survey over all. 2 response to a separate survey question about which faculty actions students believe would promote their academic success. Beyond deadlines, some 44 percent of students say they want greater flexibility when it comes to class attendance and participation.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In this post, Fumiko Naruni-Munro, Japanese Language Programme Director, describes the Japanese Studies cultural event, Gakuen-sai, meaning “campus festival” in Japanese, which aims to provide students with an opportunity to develop their understanding of Japanese culture outside of the curriculum.

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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. Moreover, the lecturer runs the risk of covering material the students already know.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 23, 2017

Edinburgh Journal Article Writing Week (or EdJoWriWe for short) first took place in December 2013, created and run by Muireann Crowley and Eystein Thanisch, PhD students in English Literature and Celtic Studies respectively. Is it really possible to write a journal article in seven days? This week has been invaluable to me’.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 9, 2017

And they provide students with a digital artefact that they can use to showcase their skills in the discipline. Exemplar videos or materials are provided that students use to prepare in advance for the demonstration. Verbal demonstrations are a slightly different form of assessment, and this can bring its own challenges.

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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? For most it was a bumpy ride. Sep 13, 2018

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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. We also wanted to provide opportunities for students new to Edinburgh to become inhabitants of their new home city.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

The bill states that public colleges and universities with residence halls open during breaks must offer free housing during intersessions to students who were receiving support through the state’s foster care system at age 18. “Everyone knows education is the ticket to independence and success.”

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MAY 21, 2020

i) Some cohorts of students may be working asynchronously in different time zones whereas for others synchronous learning may be possible. It’s quite common for students to have misconceptions about what is wanted (Sadler, 2010). Could your students contribute to Wikipedia together. References Anderson, C. and McCune, V.

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Campus Groups

MAY 10, 2022

Based out of Dorchester Massachusetts, he holds a Master’s of Higher Education in Student Affairs from Salem State University. Prior to joining CG, he was at Babson College, where he held roles in Student Engagement as well as Student Activities and Leadership. Tell us about your professional background.

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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’. However, working class students can complete their undergraduate studies ‘with a strong sense of being bruised and battered by the whole experience’ (Reay 2016b, p70). I put my head down.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Although potentially useful for future iterations of a course, end-of–semester feedback has a critical limitation in that any changes made won’t impact on the students who gave the feedback. What do staff and students in the pilot think? What’s Next? Further resources can be found here.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 26, 2016

By contrast, it ought to be possible to assemble a cohort of students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and indeed this is relatively easy to achieve in Masters-level courses. Together with colleagues Arno Verhoeven and James Stewart , I have been involved in two initiatives that engage with these challenges. Oct 26, 2016

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I planned to have a maximum of 10 fashion students, who I expected to have some basic stitching skills. She strives to work as a commercial, sustainable designer making pieces that are valued and ‘tell a story’, and is the published author of ‘Girls Get Stitching’ 2013. Nov 12, 2019

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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! Can we get a more honest opinion from blogging?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

The Edinburgh Award is an initiative that recognises students’ involvement with co- and extra-curricular activities while at University. 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.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This setup allows students to interact with mathematical concepts visually, making it easier to grasp and experiment with different scenarios by adjusting the sliders. This setup allows students to interact with mathematical concepts visually, making it easier to grasp and experiment with different scenarios by adjusting the sliders.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Over the last 20 years as the Programme Director of Graphic Design within Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) Design School I have been accustomed to teaching a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds from across the UK. It all started with me wondering where all the Middlesborough boys had gone. Dec 1, 2016

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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. We know from students that it is critical for their engagement with the review to be at least acknowledged.

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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. Would it make sense to the students?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 16, 2019

Our online students come from more than 140 countries, and the majority are studying part-time while they work, with the aim of progressing their career and increasing their knowledge in their chosen specialist subject. Many students are new to online learning when they first start studying with us.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Avita is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School. This is particularly true in the context of marketisation, which has transformed universities into “service institutions,” where academics are increasingly expected to cater to the needs of students and stakeholders.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

‘Over our dead bodies’ was the response I got when proposing to my final year undergrad Graphic Design students that we phase out the Design Agency scheme. If, however, things get too predictable, an external ‘fly in the ointment’ appears and students find themselves with unexpected challenges. 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. This is part of what the students get to hear about and bear witness to, which is pretty powerful.” We published this in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2013), and we wrote a press release.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 23, 2025

In order to improve our students learning experience, preparation and confidence, and motivated by the great amount of digital material created during COVID-19 lockdown in academic year 2020-21 (AY20/21), we developed and implemented in LearnULTRA a step-by-step online preparation for our CEL3 course.

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