Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Staff and three students meeting for a chat on the Coffee and Cake Conversation initiative September’s introductory blog post is written by Dr Cathy Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development. 2014) Clarifying the concept of student engagement. & Hu, S.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

How do we maintain student engagement in that seemingly anonymous sea of students in the large lecture hall, and how can the same strategy do so for each individual with different backgrounds and needs? It is reassuring, therefore, to note the current widespread interest in active learning methods in STEM Higher Education.

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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. The program offers a B.A. within six years. “We

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although community college may be regularly associated as an equitable pathway to bachelor’s degrees, wealthier students typically capitalize on the opportunity. As for low-income students, a new report from the Department of Education details how infrequently their college hopes pan out.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 21, 2022

Image credit: pixabay, stocksnap, CC0 In this post, Dr Catherine Bovill explores how to effectively engage staff and students in the co-creation of assessment practices. Catherine is Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development. Active Learning in Higher Education 15 (1) 39–51.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We introduced the UCVME in 2014 as we wanted to formally recognise the important role our students play in our teaching and learning processes. We have had over 140 students enrol on the programme and, so far, 22 have completed the programme in 2017, and 35 in 2018. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the trip.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Dr Neil Hudson, Senior Veterinary Clinical Lecturer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Director of the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education reflects on the benefits of enabling undergraduate students to participate in teaching. I am really pleased to receive this fellowship.

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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). McLean, (2014). Each group meets with the course organiser who facilitates the discussion. References Francis, R.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten (2014, pp. 180) have created a “ladder of student participation in curriculum design” that shows how student engagement in the curriculum can range from no engagement within a dictated, staff-controlled curriculum to significant levels of student engagement with student control of the curriculum (see below).

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JULY 25, 2022

For example, based on rigorous research into student learning 40 years ago, Astin claimed that: The amount of student learning and personal development associated with any educational program is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of student involvement in that program. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g., Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten, 2014), which critically discusses and reflects on how universities can involve students in roles that, ‘actively shape and enhance their experiences of learning and teaching’ (Healey, Flint and Harrington, 2014).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 22, 2024

Students engaged in ASA DataFest hackathon In this extra post, Serveh Sharifi, Vanda Inacio, Ozan Evkaya, and Amanda Lenzi, academics from the School of Mathematics, share their experience and insights on hosting the American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest 2024 at The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.

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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. 3] Frank, A.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

This post belongs to June-July Hot Topic series: Students as Change Agents (SACHA). However, implementing co-creation faces hurdles like students’ reluctance to participate (Cook-Sather & Luz, 2015 ; Mapstone et al., Co-creating the curriculum allows students to have a voice, increasing their interest in the education material.

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APRIL 17, 2023

Image credit: Manfred Steger, Pixabay, CCO In this extra post, Cathy Benson shares valuable insights on international students’ perceptions and feelings on classroom interactions within two contexts: pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses and their Masters programmes. 2005) ‘Why keep silent? and Nguyen, T.Q.T.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

Wadewitz, 2014) Wikipedia, the free, online, encyclopaedia is building the largest open knowledge resource in human history. Digital Sociology MSc students engage in workshops about how sociology is communicated and how knowledge is created and curated online each year as a response to the recent ASA article.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Student-staff partnership is now a timeless concept and integral practice within Higher Education (HE) ( Bovill, 2019 ). This includes the use of Student Partnership Agreements (SPA) which seem to be widespread amongst Scottish HEIs. Maisha is heavily invested in the area of race and religious equality in Higher Education.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It is reassuring, therefore, to note the current widespread interest in active learning methods in STEM Higher Education. Heather was a finalist for the HE UK Bioscience teacher of the year 2014 and received an honourable mention in the 2015 Turnitin Global Innovation awards.

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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. An opportunity for students to gain developmental, transferable skills by learning outside the library and the lecture theatre from the start.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Sharon Boyd BA Hons, MApplEnvSc, PgCUT, MSc, SFHEA, CMALT, Lecturer in Distance Student Learning I have long had an interest in environmental and sustainable education, but was less sure how to include it within my teaching at the vet school. She completed an IAD secondment in 2015 looking at sustainable veterinary medical education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 1, 2021

This resource draws on research at the intersection of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Digital Education, and Film and Media Studies. The ways that students emotionally experience digital video impacts the approach they take to learning and ultimately the outcomes of that learning. High Educ 55 , 321–332 (2008).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

They are educators that convey lessons that generations of game players have internalized. Today, many board games purport to be educational: introducing children to rules and competition and the importance of luck and chance and tactical maneuvering. In 2014, A. ” Games, in other words, aren’t innocent diversions.

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this pos t, Nichola Kett (Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement) looks back at the University’s work on the student transitions-Enhancement Theme and highlights updated sector resources, whilst Lucy Evans (Deputy Secretary, Students) outlines the University’s planned work on continuous service improvement aligned to the student journey.

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Higher Ed Connects: Ethics

APRIL 6, 2021

Contract cheating — students paying a third party to complete university assessments for them — is a dominant problem of academic integrity for many institutions of higher education. A 2019 study conducted by Australian universities found that only about three percent of students engage in contract cheating.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Topics closer to the process of study have also been created, with the winning entry in 2014 making use of whiteboard and study tools to create a stylistic image of the inside of a cow! Veterinary degrees are known to be challenging with a significant workload.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In 2014, she was the runner-up at the university-wide final of the “Three Minute Thesis” competition at the University of Edinburgh. This MOOC is the Hungarian version of the online course “Nitrogen: A Global Challenge” created at the School of GeoSciences under the lead of Prof. Dave Reay, launched this May. Dec 13, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 24, 2022

How can we enable students to engage productively and proactively with their communities as agents for change while also ensuring a much wider tangible legacy for their work? These questions are centrally relevant to the wider aims and purposes of tertiary education. What do we do? How is the course assessed?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 2, 2020

This month’s issue will feature posts from members of the university who lead different projects aimed at supporting students in their university journey.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast Highlights The University Learning Goals page on the Villanova website contains searchable student career outcome information from the past five years that can be sorted by college and major. Villanova typically encourages employers to pay interns.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Rona Doig Rona joined the Business School in July 2014 and is currently Head of the Student Development Team supporting the personal and professional development of the School’s MSc and UG students. We also knew that we weren’t faring quite as well as some of our comparator institutions in the UK.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 2, 2020

This month’s issue will feature posts from members of the university who lead different projects aimed at supporting students in their university journey.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Based on my experience conducting faculty workshops and the books I have written, I would argue this is the most recognized phrase in the history of education. 2014; Hake, 1998; Theobald et al., 2014; Hake, 1998; Theobald et al., Life Science Education, 13 (3), 453–468. Education in the Health Professions, 1 (1), 1–3.

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