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Flipped Classrooms: A Next Generation Nursing Case Study

The Scholarly Teacher

To meet this challenge, I researched ways to increase critical thinking among my nursing students, as a student myself in an EdD program on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. “An An adult accumulates a growing reservoir of experience, which is a rich resource for learning” (Merriam & Bierema, 2014, p.

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Student engagement inside and outside the classroom

Teaching Matters Academic Support

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.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. 2017, October 20).

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Geoscience Outreach: What we do, how we assess, and client/student reflections

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship.