Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Other lecturers are using electronic voting systems (Bates, Howie & Murphy, 2006), social media (Ross, 2016) and ‘technology enhanced active learning spaces’ (Roger, Ney & Liote, 2016) to enhance the level of engagement in the subject and to promote paired and small group working in large classes. Ney, S & Liote, L.

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JULY 16, 2024

2016 ; Mapstone et al., Navigating Gaps and Strategies for Effective Co-Creation Pooja: In my experience, student-staff partnerships in curriculum design can profoundly enhance the learning experience and boost engagement. Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design.

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MAY 8, 2019

Having a diverse curriculum is essential to highlight the often ignored contributions of marginalised people in academia, and being critical of historically dominant narratives. This doesn’t involve creating an entirely new canon overnight, but rather involves learning about different perspectives and developing the canon even further.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Credit: unsplash, @vidarnm, CC0 On a wonderfully sunny day in June 2016, I graduated with an honours degree in Geology and Physical Geography. The interdisciplinary nature of the course was a major attraction, making it stand-out in comparison to other Masters and was one of the main reasons why I decided to enrol in Autumn 2016.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Interestingly, three of these posts were written in 2016, showing that the blog’s content is continually being accessed both nationally, and internationally. This list captures some of the prevalent teaching and learning issues that have been swirling around the general HE zeitgeist this year.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

The aims are to develop basic research skills in preparation for the individual research project undertaken in years 3-5. Rosie Herrington, BVM&S student, intercalating BSc Neuroscience in 2016 Sustainability is something everybody in the world can do their part to enhance, including veterinarians. Oct 20, 2016

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In summer 2016, the History Subject Area embarked on the largest overhaul of its curriculum in a generation. The Historian’s Toolkit is an entirely new training course for first-year History students, and the foundation of the new curriculum. The course is fully integrated into the first-year curriculum. Nov 8, 2016

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

SLICCs are developing momentum and becoming embedded within existing programmes of study. An important element of the SLICCs reflective learning and assessment framework and pedagogy is that it develops students’ learning and assessment literacy. Honours or MSc projects), or takes a reflective portfolio overview of a whole programme.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 14, 2017

Our student leadership award introduced in 2016 recognises students who have done something outstanding outside of their academic achievements. Our Professional Development course has been developed – and is mandatory – for any student who fails to progress into the next year of study. Mar 14, 2017

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 3, 2024

Faculty described feeling similarly unsure of curriculum development, both in terms of what prior knowledge students might have and what could be considered the “core” topics of higher education assessment. All syllabi collected were reviewed for any texts that were required for the course. Schuh, J.H., Biddix, J.P., Dean, L.A., &

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

She is also the founder and co-convener of the Scottish Physical Education Research Network, a network that aims to support students and teachers of physical education in their professional inquiry and development. May 26, 2016 Below are some student quotations to highlight their thoughts about the course and the conference.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

Reproductive Biology Honours : A student’s article on high-grade serous carcinoma, one of the most common forms of ovarian cancer, includes 60 references and diagrams she created, has been viewed over 67,000 times since 2016. Now aged eighteen, Wikipedia ranks among the world’s top ten sites for scholarly resource lookups.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Characterising lectures We helped to develop FILL+, a tool for characterising lectures by recording the activities that take place as seen from the student’s perspective. It builds on the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures (FILL) developed by Wood et al. That is, 95.6% This figure increases to 97.1% link] Mazur. 12, 010140.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Jennifer and I were appointed to the Projects and Engagement team at the Institute for Academic Development in December 2016 and the opportunity to jump straight in at the deep end to run the first Festival was a fantastic learning experience for us both! The deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 23rd October 2017.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

One of us (Kieran) convenes the course; two of us (Sabrina and Joel) were among the students who took it in its first year (2016/17). The final assessment was a ‘response article’ that contributed to the debate over one of the papers by critiquing its arguments or developing its thesis in some new direction.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Driven by factors such as growing student numbers, changes across the sector and comments from students and examiners, we introduced an innovative and progressive curriculum, which combined the highest academic standards with employability. The introduction process was not without its hiccups, as was to be expected.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Currently Heather is on secondment to the Institute for Academic Development, conducting a two-year project on flipped learning. Oct 5, 2016 Foundation for Critical Thinking In the face of this apparent truth, it is alarming to consider the 50 minute monologue delivery of facts that often constitutes the traditional science lecture.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 16, 2018

In addition, a University of Wisconsin policy made faculty vulnerable to layoffs in 2016. Our next blog will look at the trends that are emerging in relation to the facultys role in strategy, curriculum development, and governance. That trend has continued. Another option would be to change the length of tenure.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The first activity for the students is to develop the hypothesis they aim to test. Oct 18, 2016 Therefore, even staff do not know what “the answers” are going to be at the end of the practical – making it a genuine experience even under the usually artificial setting of a practical.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

After these introductions, I started to ask particular groups where specific bits of Lego came from. This yellow brick here…Can you tell me which box it came from?’ ‘No? Then I’m afraid I’m going to have to take it from you.’ After I’d destroyed a couple of creations, the students started to avoid eye contact. To start I was a little apprehensive.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By actively observing and reflecting on the adventures and challenges in unfamiliar learning zones, abstract thinking is developed, which can be used in new and broader real-world situations. Recently, it was found that group work skills benefit from interactive experiential learning (Cooley, Burns, & Cumming, 2016). Cooley, S.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 11, 2017

Case Example The Vet School launched a formative peer observation programme in Jan 2016, following approval by the R(D)SVS Senior Management Group which made this a mandatory exercise every two years for all staff involved in teaching. 2007) with benefits for the observer as much as the person being observed (Siddiqui et al., How to do it?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Oct 11, 2016 To ensure that the feedback is effective and that students gain as much as possible from these tasks, feedback is accompanied by appropriate guidance via small group tutorials on how to ‘decode’ the feedback received and how to act upon it. They then discuss this during specific feedback sessions where they meet their marker.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Richard Gratwick Dr Richard Gratwick joined the School of Mathematics in 2016 as a University Teacher, and in the 2017/18 EUSA Teaching Awards won the van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science and Engineering. Any student attending all the preceding sessions would already have delivered a presentation eight times. Sep 18, 2018

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Here David and Eli share their thoughts on lecture capture, originally published on Teaching Matters in June 2016. In the School of Divinity, Ethics and Society has always been a popular course. What began as a solution to a problem became the key learning technology innovation on the course. Why is it not done for many other courses?”

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Next steps: Read more about teachers’ experiences of using Top Hat in lectures in the School of Divinity Find out more about Top Hat and how to use it with students Ross Galloway Ross Galloway is a Senior Teaching Development Officer in the School of Physics and Astronomy. I ask open questions of the class, and expect an answer.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 6, 2018

In place of the discussion board and learning management systems that are synonymous with online learning, conversation on the EDC course takes place in overtly social and public spaces: tutorials in Google Hangouts; a film festival in Togethertube; weekly summaries in WordPress. References: Bayne, S. E-Learning and Digital Media , 3(1), 16-26.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, we became increasingly uncomfortable with this requirement, which seemed at odds with EDI principles; was it fair for students whose first language (L1) is English be denied opportunities to develop their writing skills, simply on the basis of their first language? Do they change the way they teach? 1] Lea, M.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

Teaching Matters in Academic Year 2018/2019 Credit: Pixabay, CC0, harishs Teaching Matters has been growing steadily since its inception in January 2016 – in June 2018, readership peaked at 4,300. David Mountain explaining the problem with patriotism, and how it is illogical, dangerous and a waste of time.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

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. It is cited as a reason for choosing the University of Edinburgh Business School.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 26, 2016

On the other hand, the expense of several lecturers developing and delivering a course which brings together the perspectives and expertise of different disciplines is hard to reconcile with standard models for resourcing teaching. Oct 26, 2016 We have learnt to listen to each other’s ideas and be receptive to different viewpoints.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Talks Attended Keynote 1: Transforming Student Learning: The Journey of a University-Wide Curriculum Reform – Professor Amy B.M. A Mixed Method Analysis of NSS 2016 Free Text Data – Jill MacKay 3B: What Question? Also discussed was judging when to approach students and how to ask open questions.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

of students in 2016 used Wikipedia for their academic work and also highlighted that many used it for an ‘introductory and/or clarificatory role’. of students in 2016 used Wikipedia for their academic work and also highlighted that many used it for an ‘introductory and/or clarificatory role’. A study by Selwyn found that 87.5%

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In this post, Professor Mike Shipston, Professor Sue Welburn, Dr John Menzies, and Cristina Matthews, showcase the award-winning Zhejiang University – University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE) … It is not every day that a transformation in transnational educational programmes is realised.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The project had several outcomes, including fantastic examples of student and staff engagement, enhanced course descriptors, and revised policies, which laid important ground work for the current PCIM project. PCIM aims to deliver a golden copy of all course and programme information to be used by both prospective and current students and staff.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2016

If there were no other good reasons to develop inclusive teaching and learning practices, surely the provocation of innovative and original critique of disciplinary canons is a valuable academic one? Dec 12, 2016 This paradox is at the heart of learning and teaching in universities, colleges, Art Schools and Conservatoires.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Talks Attended Keynote 1: Transforming Student Learning: The Journey of a University-Wide Curriculum Reform – Professor Amy B.M. A Mixed Method Analysis of NSS 2016 Free Text Data – Jill MacKay 3B: What Question? Also discussed was judging when to approach students and how to ask open questions.

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