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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Gerogiorgis, Personal Chair of Process Systems Engineering at The University of Edinburgh, explores the dynamic integration of active learning seminars in engineering education. Mousoulos/2015, H.L. Dimitrios I. Drawing on his extensive academic and research experience, Prof. Feb 13, 2025

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House weaponization subcommittee seeks records from universities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The subcommittee wants records from as far as back as January 2015 between faculty or staff at the universities and the federal government or social media organizations pertaining to the moderation of social media content, ProPublica reported. At this point, the letters are just requests, though the subcommittee does have subpoena power.

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Approaches to Equality and Diversity in Higher Education Teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Higher education in the UK is experienced differently by our diverse student cohorts. Vicky Gunn: Conceptualising the disciplines’ role in inclusive teaching practice Higher Education needs to foster disciplinary sameness and transformation simultaneously. Teaching in Higher Education. Higher Education Academy.

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Student-created, peer-assessed Open Educational Resources

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Flickr: Steve Johnson The MSc in Digital Education programme experiments with different modes and forms of assessment, and one course, Digital Futures for Learning, has made creating Open Educational Resources (OERs) one of its core assignments. Open education: the need for a critical approach. Knox, J., & Ross, J.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Postsecondary educators have been increasingly focused on supporting positive student mental health over the past decades. Marginalized sociodemographic groups navigate more barriers and challenges (stressors) within our society, and postsecondary education institutions. Stress and Mental Health in Marginalized Sociodemographic Groups.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. His father was a doctor who worked at the local hospital, but it was bombed in 2015. Afterward, his father treated patients in his home.

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

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

There is an increasing emphasis in higher education on promoting student voice and engagement, positioning students as partners in the teaching and learning process. I piloted this framework for the first time in 2015-16, with a group of twelve final year undergraduate students from SPS and PPLS.