Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Two of our AFHEA students from the 2018 cohort presented on their own approaches to teaching at the vet school’s Celebrating Teaching event (see picture below). This is a lesson to step out into the adventure that is student engagement and partnership – you never know where it may lead! References 1. Stansbie, N.,

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 12, 2022

Online learners, much like in-person learners, need an environment that fosters relationships, social interaction, and activities focused on the goals and objectives of the course (Buck, 2016; Frey, 2015). Farrell and Brunton (2020) uncovered themes essential to online student engagement. Understanding students, adapting.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Finding ways to engage in these broad issues will allow students to connect their personal decision-making with the opportunities and challenges afforded by our dependence on critical metals. The combination of new knowledge and a semi-competitive and adventuring atmosphere has the potential to engage learners of all types.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

You might also be interested in the QAA event ‘Student Engagement in Postgraduate Research Provision’ on 23 March 2016. Resources to support doctoral researchers Student Engagement in Postgraduate Research Provision ​​​​Wondering what other colleagues are doing around assessment and feedback?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I think it is fair to say that it is less common to see students demonstrating palpable excitement to enter the room. Why are students less excited by the learning experiences we offer? There is evidence that many students appreciate and benefit from interactive lectures (Huxham, 2005; Revell and Wainwright, 2009).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

By creating teams that are interdisciplinary by subject and students, it creates a more well-rounded environment that models the working world. By involving students across grades and rooting the project under a faculty adviser, VIPs don’t end when the school year does. As the program has grown, so has its staff.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

180) have created a “ladder of student participation in curriculum design” that shows how student engagement in the curriculum can range from no engagement within a dictated, staff-controlled curriculum to significant levels of student engagement with student control of the curriculum (see below).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This (self-imposed) time limit meant that the journey of scientific discovery cannot be fully replicated by students – the materials have to be there before the students arrive. However, this was the only willing concession to ‘reliability’ – the remainder of the students’ engagement with the scientific endeavour was retained.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

However, implementing co-creation faces hurdles like students’ reluctance to participate (Cook-Sather & Luz, 2015 ; Mapstone et al., 2016 ; Mapstone et al., I reckon this can result in courses that are relevant, up-to-date, and engaging! Pooja: True, time constraints are a major hurdle.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 1, 2016

We know they provide opportunities for our students to develop their potential as autonomous and collaborative learners, to deepen their engagement, and to sharpen their skills. In its first year (2015-16) we piloted the learning and teaching pillar of the framework with twelve Senior Honours students (selected by interview).

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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. Firstly, it represents Teaching Matters’ commitment to feature student-authored blog posts about learning and teaching. Their results were rather conclusive… 2.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 22, 2016

This post was originally published on 1 March 2016. It arose from within the student Shelter Medicine Society in the School, and is one aspect of a range of activities broadly centered around the theme of ‘community animal health and welfare’ and exploring various public good aspects of veterinary medicine. Aug 22, 2016

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Student Research Course Foundation (SRCF) is a 10-credit course taken in the second year of the five-year undergraduate Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) degree. It is designed around a student-led group research project, allowing students to self-select their group and topic. Oct 20, 2016

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

At this early stage, the student receives feedback from their SLICC staff tutor, who offers them guidance on how they may gain greater insight during the learning experience and maximise the available opportunities. The scope for student agency is significant, with students defining their own unique learning experiences.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Over the last 20 years as the Programme Director of Graphic Design within Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) Design School I have been accustomed to teaching a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds from across the UK. Dec 1, 2016 It all started with me wondering where all the Middlesborough boys had gone.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 11, 2016

This post was originally published in February 2016. The case for Student-led individually created courses Raphy, my nephew, is 18 months old. These students have taken charge of their learning and are seeking to make a difference before they graduate and get their first full-time job. Aug 11, 2016

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 5, 2017

So when my colleague, Gavin Willshaw, suggested running a Board Game Jam as part of Innovative Learning Week 2016, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Students reported leaving the session with a greater understanding of the resources available for them and how they could share their own work for others to re-use.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

This year, over 40 students and 40 delegates took part in the event and the feedback that the students received from those who attended was overwhelmingly positive. Below are some student quotations to highlight their thoughts about the course and the conference. May 26, 2016 I really enjoyed talking about our research.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

The result is that our community is more engaged with knowledge creation online and readers all over the world benefit from our teaching, research and collections. (Wadewitz, 2014) Wikipedia, the free, online, encyclopaedia is building the largest open knowledge resource in human history. billion unique devices.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 28, 2022

The University’s new assessment and feedback principles include ‘Our assessment and feedback practices will be reliable, robust and transparent’ – and, as is highlighted in the opening post in this series , students do not always consider it to be clear how their marks were awarded.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 10, 2019

Crucially, it was also co-created with students –through the course Social and Political Science in Practice , an SPS framework for Honours students to undertake faculty-student collaboration on research, teaching or public engagement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2019

This in turn, has been shown to increase the feelings of belonging during students’ time at University, and, subsequently, raises educational success (e.g., Felten et al, 2016). Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. This simplicity really struck me.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 17, 2023

The phenomenon of international students’ reticence in seminars has been well documented, along with the explanations students themselves have offered for this (e.g. Green, 2016; Morita, 2004 ; Phan Le Ha and Binghui Li, 2014 ; Tatar, 2005 ; Yates and Nguyen, 2012 ). 2016) ‘Time to talk about talking? :

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2017

Hoping to encourage discussion, generate ideas and learn from existing good practice within the History department at Edinburgh, I received funding from the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme in March 2016 to produce a website with the aim of empowering postgraduate students in history to become better teachers.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The flipped classroom is not without its own problems- notably that while students are clearly required to think during peer instruction, they are considering someone else’s questions which do not necessarily address their own interests, knowledge gaps and misconceptions. Oct 5, 2016 ” Exactly so.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 30, 2021

I have been a Mastercard Scholar since 2016, and being part of the Mastercard Scholars Program is one of the gifts that I cherish every day. I am currently pursuing my MSc in Global Health Policy at The University of Edinburgh after completing a BSc in Environment from the American University of Beirut.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 1, 2016

All4Paws is a new, student-led community project in the Vet School providing ‘pop-up’ vet clinics for homeless and vulnerably-housed people and their animals. Mar 1, 2016 It is often said that a pet becomes part of the family: a companion, a friend.

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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 Online Learning

JUNE 1, 2016

Formative online quizzes have been shown to be useful in helping students engage with course material and provide feedback on their understanding of a topic. They can help students structure their study time by providing prompts on areas of difficulty. Jun 1, 2016 In practice I think they were used more for revision.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

I’d recently taken on the role of senior tutor for the Geography undergraduate students and I’d decided to rethink how we run the personal tutor group meetings. Student attendance at group meetings had been patchy and many colleagues became frustrated at the lack of student engagement. Would it make sense to the students?

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

APRIL 15, 2023

schools that offer fully online Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs increased 85% — from 284 to 526 — between the 2016-17 and 2020-21 academic years, according to data from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Beyond Mass Personalization: Taking Personalization to a Higher Level Fact: The number of U.S.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 11, 2022

And this year, two interesting observations emerged: In 2021, the ten most read posts were entries dating from previous years, ranging from 2016 to 2020. “An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum” (January 2019): [link] We’re always happy to see a student-written post make it to the 10 ten list!

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 26, 2016

By contrast, it ought to be possible to assemble a cohort of students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and indeed this is relatively easy to achieve in Masters-level courses. Together with colleagues Arno Verhoeven and James Stewart , I have been involved in two initiatives that engage with these challenges. Oct 26, 2016

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As James Arvanitakis and David J Hornsby (2016) define them in Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education , Citizen Scholars are students who apply discipline-specific knowledge in order to develop and support their community and wider society. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. References Arvanitakis, J.,

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 8, 2019

In 2016, the Students’ Association , led by their Liberation Campaigns , created ‘LiberatEd’ , a campaign to create an intersectional, inclusive and empowering curriculum at the University of Edinburgh. These elements contribute to creating a more holistic understanding of how marginalised students experience University.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In chasing these questions, Emily and Andrew are engaged in the evergreen issue of student engagement, particularly in online education where virtual fatigue and silent drop-outs can be high. Your goal is to share your knowledge and what [sparked] your passion to those students to make them interested in material.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In chasing these questions, Emily and Andrew are engaged in the evergreen issue of student engagement, particularly in online education where virtual fatigue and silent drop-outs can be high. Your goal is to share your knowledge and what [sparked] your passion to those students to make them interested in material.

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