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Co-creating care home nursing education in the curriculum

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Student nurses have the potential to offer solutions to the crisis in recruitment through the co-creation of the nursing curriculum. Our project, funded through the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS), sought to develop this idea of co-creation of the curriculum. Student engagement through partnership in higher education.

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Student-staff co-creation of a course: Understanding gender in the contemporary world

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

I piloted this framework for the first time in 2015-16, with a group of twelve final year undergraduate students from SPS and PPLS. Curriculum Co-Creation: Challenges Engaging students in curriculum development can be both empowering and disempowering.

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Approaches to Equality and Diversity in Higher Education Teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

In the report Equality and diversity in learning and teaching in Scotland’s universities (2015, p.40), 2015) When rights are not enough: what is? 2015) Equality and diversity in learning and teaching at Scotland’s universities. Embedding equality and diversity in the curriculum: a model for learning and teaching practitioners.

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Shanghai College of Fashion collaborates with Edinburgh College of Art

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

In April of that year SCF was officially launched with the first students joining in September 2015. Since the start of 2017 she has been Programme Director for Interior Design at Edinburgh College of Art, and has been the Interiors Co-ordinator for the SCF collaboration since its inception in 2015. Dec 7, 2017

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Teaching with sustainability in the Vet School

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

To encourage inter- and multi-disciplinary connections, students are invited to propose project topics which are not directly related to the veterinary medical curriculum. In 2015-16, the project focus was refined to directly draw on concepts of social responsibility and sustainability. Oct 20, 2016

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Bridging the gap: Reflections from teaching translational data and AI ethics

Teaching Matters Online Learning

‘Representative’ data and ‘accurate’ predictions can still cause harm when AI systems are used in contexts that disproportionately affect certain groups over others, such as surveillance and policing (Eubanks 2014; Browne 2015). BMC Medical Ethics 15 (1): 71. link] Borg, J. The AI Field Needs Translational Ethical AI Research’. Gaebler, J.D.,

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Confessions of a Community College Dean

His father was a doctor who worked at the local hospital, but it was bombed in 2015. What about curriculum development? Breaking ‘Rules’ Akram (not his real name) grew up in Aleppo, Syria, Reshef said, recounting a story of a UoPeople student. Afterward, his father treated patients in his home.