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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

” Briana Pegado (final year student 2013/14 and EUSA President 2014/15) The success of these early trials encouraged further pilots on several large mainstream courses across the University to evaluate the impact this may have on students in developing a deeper understanding of how to effectively use assessment and feedback in their learning.

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Welcome to the November issue of Teaching Matters: Student author month

Teaching Matters Academic Support

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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Developing graduate attributes in a landscape of practices

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Drawing on Wenger’s work on Communities of Practice (1998), but also the later work on Landscapes of Practice (Wenger-Trayner, Fenton-O’Creevey, Hutchinson, Kubiak & Wenger-Trayner, 2014), offers a useful lens for us to think about our students’ situated learning experience. 2014) Learning in landscapes of practice.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. She holds a CIPD qualification, is an accredited Coach through the Association for Coaching, and a trustee of a local Edinburgh charity.

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Students as teachers: implementing the Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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.

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Creating resilience through diversity, experimentation and pragmatism

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Mayra Hernandez-Rios, a graduate from 2014 who was one of the animators responsible for this year’s Oscar nominated Loving Vincent , reflects: Very very thankful to ECA, to all of you, for everything. We want them to understand their relative merits, and bend them to the service of their films.