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Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs): Learning and teaching beyond disciplinary silos

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The approaches offered by SLICCs can allow responses to the recent Learning and Teaching Strategy, to enhance and offer flexibility in curricula, supporting and working in partnership with our students, in our research-rich environment. The scope for student agency is significant, with students defining their own unique learning experiences.

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Engaging the professional community in teaching medical students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Offering choice presents a series of challenges and opportunities to the curriculum developer. For example, how do we work with the professional community to support the 850+ students that are undertaking the Bachelor of Medicine programme at any one time? Apr 4, 2016

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Interestingly, three of these posts were written in 2016, showing that the blog’s content is continually being accessed both nationally, and internationally. This short dialogue between student and staff is a motivating, honest and collegial conversation about what makes good teaching.

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Teaching presentation skills and engaging students in large lectures

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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. Sep 18, 2018

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Interdisciplinary teaching: Rock-solid preparation for professional life

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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). Our course – Contemporary Political Theory: Engaging in Current Research – is one of several courses at Edinburgh trying something different.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Using the evidence of the impact of the PGT skills mapping exercise, and its subsequent value to the professional development of our students, in 2016 we submitted a Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme application. This funded the time to undertake a mapping exercise across all of our undergraduate courses.