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How professional digital ePortfolios can enhance employability and professional identity

SRHE

My research investigated digital ePortfolios in the undergraduate curriculum in Childhood Studies at the University of Portsmouth. In the data collection process, discussions encompassed ePortfolio development linked to students’ compulsory work placements embedded in Childhood Studies degree programmes.

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

University Business

Paul’s energy, relationships, affection and years of service to Southern Miss have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is the right person to guide the university into its next chapter of leadership and excellence in teaching, service and research in the state and nation.”

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Trying to teach students to tolerate disagreeable speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I think it highlights, for me, that many of the problems we face on college campuses are due to loud voices that are not necessarily representing how most students think.” ” Outside of universities, some organizations and researchers have also begun looking into potential solutions to campus speech intolerance.

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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

Help students develop the ability to self-assess. 2011) The Mythology of Feedback, Higher Education Research and Development, Vol. 2005) Improving Assessment Through Student Involvement: Practical solutions for aiding learning in higher and further education. 4 pp 405-419 [link] Falchikov, N. & Chapman, A.

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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’. Speirs, N.

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Guide To Assessment

Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

Tip : Most colleges/universities have an Office of Institutional Research (see Section 4). Professionals from different areas of the institution provide insight into the academic and collegiate experience of studentsdevelopment. Students and their parents express opinions on their expectations of post-secondary education.