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How professional digital ePortfolios can enhance employability and professional identity

SRHE

Findings showed that reflective work in ePortfolios can be challenging through exposing vulnerabilities, whilst also positively playing a role in the ‘bigger picture’ of studentsdevelopment – ePortfolios facilitated digital skill development and evolving professional identities.

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“I know a first when I see one!”: Developing transparent marking descriptors with the help of students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Indeed, recent work by Advance HE highlights this has a specific impact on student mental health as they navigate the uncertainty of what it is they are supposed to be doing and where it is they could make improvements. Assessment and feedback is a topic of major interest in Higher Education across the world. & Chapman, A.

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Trying to teach students to tolerate disagreeable speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How can institutional leaders convince students to hear out opinions they believe are harmful or voice views that they’ve seen draw public condemnation from other students? The best known example is the University of Chicago, which adopted the so-called Chicago Statement back in 2015. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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It’s official: Joe Paul is named president of the University of Southern Mississippi

University Business

.” Paul, a Southern Miss alumnus, retired in 2015 after he served as an administrator in student affairs for the university for more than 40 years. in the administration of higher education from the University of Alabama and was named the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student in the field in 1985.

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Team Growth: Get to Know Maria and Anthony

Campus Groups

Living in Columbus, Ohio, she holds a Master of Education from Ohio University. Maria is passionate about student affairs and success. With over 8 years of experience in higher education she has held several roles in this space. Anthony has over eight years of experience in higher education.

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Twenty years of peer support: The fellowship and solidarity of community

Teaching Matters Academic Support

It is from here that our students can begin to engage fully with the emancipatory nature of education, which can only be found ‘in the fellowship and solidarity of community’ (Darder, 2015). When students form meaningful relationships with others connected to the institution, they are more likely to persist’. Do I fit in?

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Community for teaching climate and sustainability

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Every member of staff, every student, every alumnus and friend of The University of Edinburgh can contribute to tackling climate change”- Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh It’s also a clear demand from our students. Staff are also on board.