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Researching our Learning and Teaching – get involved, get informed

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Participate in a Universitas 21 network survey on teaching and find out more about ongoing research on teaching practices and attitudes. What do academic staff truly believe about and value in their teaching? Apr 25, 2016 How do we really know what goes on inside university classrooms?

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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The Directors of Teaching Network is a new initiative started by the Assistant Principal for Assessment and Feedback, Professor Susan Rhind in 2016. The first meeting in February 2016 included introductions to each school and their major achievements and challenges in assessment and feedback.

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Practical applications

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The IAD has a range of resources to support doctoral researchers including, courses, networks, funding, career management, and advice and support. You might also be interested in the QAA event ‘Student Engagement in Postgraduate Research Provision’ on 23 March 2016. EUSA Teaching Awards Feb 1, 2016

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Learning from each other: Creating a scholarly community of practice through peer tutoring

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

2016 ), though this is perhaps better defined as a “community of enquiry” (Bozalek et al., Each new intake of tutors brings with them a new set of experiences and different goals, which can often take us all into new areas of research. Our role as staff is not as “disciplinary content experts” (Bovill et al., References Boyd, S.,

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Research shows shown that peer observation is an extremely valuable process (Irby, 1983; Brown and Ward-Griffin, 1994; Siddiqui et al., It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

They can also be a useful resource for researchers looking to better understand the relationship between teaching practices and learning. These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

While these examples do come with the challenges and risks of embracing spontaneity and sharing ownership (Bovill, Cook-Sather, Felten, Millard, & Moore-Cherry, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al., Oxford, UK: Oxford Brookes University: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. 2017), there are also many benefits!