Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

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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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. Sep 18, 2018

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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 short dialogue between student and staff is a motivating, honest and collegial conversation about what makes good teaching.

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

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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 Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In summer 2016, the History Subject Area embarked on the largest overhaul of its curriculum in a generation. Nov 8, 2016 Esther Mijers Esther Mijers is lecturer in Scottish History and Director of Teaching (pre-honours History). She arrived in Edinburgh two years ago, having taught at the University of Reading before then.

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