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Researching our Learning and Teaching – get involved, get informed

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Participate in a Universitas 21 network survey on teaching and find out more about ongoing research on teaching practices and attitudes. What do academic staff truly believe about and value in their teaching? How do we really know what goes on inside university classrooms? Apr 25, 2016

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

Research Excellence Framework 2021. The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. More are promised after the Future Research Assessment Programme (FRAP) consultation reports. by Ian McNay. Four are fitted on to one page.

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Mini-series: Blogging to build community – Stories from Nursing Studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Our students and staff have been fantastic at contributing engaging pieces of writing covering everything from teaching, research and events to campaigning. Nursing Graduate, Zoe Horseman, is now a Research Assistant and District Nurse. Five years later, it serves the same purpose – as a community blog.

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The first Hungarian MOOC by the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Below, you can watch a short video, which advertises the MOOC: As the name of the funding virtual centre suggests, NEWS India-UK is a cooperation between British and Indian research institutes and universities. Because one of the members of the original MOOC development team, Dr. Andi Móring, is from Hungary.

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten (2014, pp. Many aspects of co-creation of the curriculum can also advance characteristics that students perceive as excellence in teaching and student support, as we found in previous research drawing on the Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Teaching Awards data (Lubicz-Nawrocka & Bunting, 2018).

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

2007; Deng & Yuen, 2011), particularly reflective writing (Hemmi, Bayne, & Land, 2009), and learning to write for particular real or imagined audiences (Ross, 2014; Gogia, 2016). Writing online can make explicit a thought process, demonstrating the development of an approach and understanding over time. link] Kerawalla, L.,

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Training and support for postgraduate students who teach (PGWT)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Aug 10, 2017