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? iStock [kubkoo] Teaching at scale poses specific challenges.

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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. Engström, A. & & Schnaas, U.

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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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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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JANUARY 23, 2020

the University of Colorado Boulder’s work on upper division teaching [7]), there remain many open questions about how students can effectively engage with very advanced, complex material during lecture-style classes without becoming overwhelmed. In addition, he supervises Senior Honours, MPhys and PhD research projects.

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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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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. Engström, A. & & Schnaas, U.

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JULY 16, 2024

Ankita Chattopadhyay is a recent graduate with an MSc by Research (MScR) in Infection Medicine (Biomedical Sciences). This post belongs to June-July Hot Topic series: Students as Change Agents (SACHA). Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design. link] Bovill, C.,

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In this issue, we will be publishing examples of when a teaching innovation or change in practice has been introduced, piloted, or researched, and it hasn’t turned out as expected. Why it’s time to publish research “failures”. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 21, 2019

Student participation in curriculum development is reported to increase levels of individual and collective student responsibility for their learning, enhance student performance and engagement, and increase teachers’ satisfaction (Bovill, 2014; HEA, 2015). Mar 21, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 17, 2023

This PTAS funded collaborative project also suggests strategies that can help improve student participation and engagement. Cathy is indebted to her colleagues and co-researchers, who all contributed an enormous amount: Cathy Holden and Camilla Green ( ELE ), and Joan Cutting, Seongsook Choi and Alice Shan ( MHSES ).

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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. The result is that our community is more engaged with knowledge creation online and readers all over the world benefit from our teaching, research and collections. Bibliography Wadewitz, A.

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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. Sep 27, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 10, 2019

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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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Student Research Course Foundation (SRCF) is a 10-credit course taken in the second year of the five-year undergraduate Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) degree. It is designed around a student-led group research project, allowing students to self-select their group and topic.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. Heather McQueen Heather McQueen is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Genetics and Associate Director of Teaching in the School of Biological Sciences.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The idea is to engage academics with operational staff in order to form a mutually beneficial collaboration. In the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, we collaborate with researchers and students across the University, and partner with the Edinburgh Living Lab. What makes a Living Lab project?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Edinburgh. How does Hungary come into the story then?

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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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Higher Ed Connects: Ethics

APRIL 6, 2021

A 2019 study conducted by Australian universities found that only about three percent of students engage in contract cheating. In Australia, the issue came to light in a 2014 scandal that involved students at some of the nation’s top universities who were caught turning in papers they purchased from a company called MyMaster.

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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.

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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. Professor Peter Felten, Learning & Teaching Conference 2019. Photo credit: A Bovill.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

” Even a highly inaccurate video game, he argues, can be educationally useful if encourages students to engage in research-based critique and if it instills awareness about agents, systems, strategies. In 2014, A. As he puts it, “The Unexamined Game Is Not Worth Playing.”

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 24, 2022

Through these workshops, students and staff from different disciplines and Schools across the University work together, leading to cross-fertilisation of ideas and cultures. Our assessment involves tasks that resemble workplace settings yet equip students with skills for their future professional life. How is the course assessed?

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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. Cambridge: Polity Press.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

The course is firmly embedded in a tangible place and contexts, encouraging students to start defining their own investigative agendas. In previous years (2014-2016), students set their talents to reimagine Galashiels to 2040.

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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. Professor Peter Felten, Learning & Teaching Conference 2019. Photo credit: A Bovill.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2023

Key Statement: Research is clear that combining lecture and active learning results in the best learning outcomes. An extraordinary amount of research shows clearly that augmenting lectures with some form of active learning enhances student learning. The researchers also found that students were 1.5

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Despite the extensive debates and grandstanding in the literature, the research indicates that it is perfectly fine to lecture, provided you don't lecture poorly or for too long. Unfortunately, the research on this topic does not support this ubiquitous statement; it does not compare lectures to active learning (Zakrajsek, 2018).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

Part of this comes from approximately 94% of Villanova students being accepted into internships. Anyone can see these successes for themselves since the private Roman Catholic research institution shares what their alumni are actually saying and experiencing online. It could be from a research experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

The literature is replete with research on the negative outcomes Black males experience from employment to education as well as from health and interactions with law enforcement. Creating mirrors of reflection and doorways of opportunity: Engaging and supporting elementary Black males in language arts. Chapter 5: Small, C.L.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. Campuses need to make it clear that their Number 1 priority is student learning and development.

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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. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Deeley, S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Collectively, as researchers, we have about 50 or more years of experience conducting empirical studies on Black men attending diverse institutional types, ranging from predominantly White institutions, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

I realise this is a contentious claim, but I draw on a range of evidence to argue that student involvement has been linked to a range of benefits. They found statistically significant results that the use of name tents enhanced student motivation and learning, and made it more likely students would approach staff to ask for help.

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