Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

Speed dating session The final piece of course work for the students on the BEd PE Programme is the ‘Investigation’. This is a student-led research project that culminates in a student-organised conference, where they share their findings with each other and members of the profession. May 26, 2016

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Joshua Reda There are also students who don’t have stable or consistent homes who want a place to reside while pursuing their education. Central Oregon Community College (COCC) opened its current housing facility, Wickiup Hall, in 2016. We don’t have family housing because our facilities aren’t currently set up to support that.”

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research. General discussion ensued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB. “By

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Image: At New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, the seven-year-old Vertically Integrated Projects program has grown from five teams to almost 50, involving hundreds of students each semester. Each team is managed by one faculty adviser who supervises and grades students throughout the project.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

provision for doctoral students includes several academic writing courses aimed at different stages of their research journey. When these courses were first created, they were intended exclusively for international students with English as an additional language (EAL speakers). 1] Lea, M. R., & Street, B. 3] Hyland, K.

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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

APRIL 17, 2023

Cathy is indebted to her colleagues and co-researchers, who all contributed an enormous amount: Cathy Holden and Camilla Green ( ELE ), and Joan Cutting, Seongsook Choi and Alice Shan ( MHSES ). 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 Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

provision for doctoral students includes several academic writing courses aimed at different stages of their research journey. When these courses were first created, they were intended exclusively for international students with English as an additional language (EAL speakers). 1] Lea, M. R., & Street, B. 3] Hyland, K.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this episode , Dr Emily O’Reilly and alumnus Andrew Strankman from the School of Biomedical Sciences discuss their fantastic research project on podcasting in education, funded by the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme. What do students think about podcasts? What are the kinds of podcasts that we currently have on offer?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this episode , Dr Emily O’Reilly and alumnus Andrew Strankman from the School of Biomedical Sciences discuss their fantastic research project on podcasting in education, funded by the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme. What do students think about podcasts? What are the kinds of podcasts that we currently have on offer?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 28, 2022

2011) The Mythology of Feedback, Higher Education Research and Development, Vol. 2005) Improving Assessment Through Student Involvement: Practical solutions for aiding learning in higher and further education. . & 4 pp 405-419 [link] Falchikov, N. & Macfarlane-Dick, D. 2 pp 199-218 [link] O’Donovan, B. and Price, M.

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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 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. Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!)

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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). Staff can either spend time training, or sharing and shadowing teaching, research and learning practices, with colleagues outside of the UK.

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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. Former-PhD student, Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka, explains what ‘co-creation in the curriculum’ means. 10. “What is learning design?” Jan 11, 2022

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

In comparison, the challenges for conducting interdisciplinary research seem to be at a lower level, for instance with the funding of a research grant, or as a student project – they are discrete and have clearly defined objectives. Furthermore, those resources of money and researchers, act as great enablers.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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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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.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 1, 2016

It is clear from the various pilots across the University, most notably Student-Led Independently Created Courses (SLICCs), that these sorts of experiences enable our students to flourish (read more about SLICCs in Jonny Ross-Tatam’s Teaching Matters post from March 2016). Aug 1, 2016

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2024

We believe that open educational resources play an important role in supporting our vision, purpose and values ; to discover knowledge and make the world a better place, and to ensure our teaching and research is diverse, inclusive, accessible to all and relevant to society. Course Accessibility Matrix Template (.xls)

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When students learn to evaluate and interpret their experiences and perspectives autonomously, this is a strong base for transformative adult learning (Mesirow 1997), a theme recently picked up in educational research (Servant-Miklos & Noordegraaf-Eelens 2021). I certainly do. References Akkerman, S. F., & Bakker, A.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is the second in a two-part conversation facilitated by Teaching Matters’ Eric Berger, which allows Emily and Andrew to consider the ‘whys, whats, and hows’ of podcasting through the lens of their PTAS-funded research project on educational podcasts.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is the second in a two-part conversation facilitated by Teaching Matters’ Eric Berger, which allows Emily and Andrew to consider the ‘whys, whats, and hows’ of podcasting through the lens of their PTAS-funded research project on educational podcasts.

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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 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. The University of Edinburgh was a great fit for me to pursue my degree because of its renowned academic expertise and research in the field of Global Health.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 22, 2016

This post was originally published on 1 March 2016. The students are supported by academic staff for the clinical work, but all other aspects of service provision, and all decision-making, are made by the student management group for All4Paws. Aug 22, 2016 The group also raises funds for an animal shelter in Portugal.

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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 Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

(Cronon, 2012) At The University of Edinburgh, we have quickly generated real examples of technology-enhanced learning activities appropriate to the curriculum and transformed our students, staff and members of the public from being passive readers and consumers to being active, engaged contributors.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to student figures from the 2018-2019 school year, there were 25,881 undergraduate students at the university, as opposed to 15,796 postgraduates (10,487 taught and 5,309 research). They have carefully chosen to pursue their degree and designed a research project that they feel passionately about. Matheson, K.

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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. Since that time she has maintained her professional practice and developed her research in the field of education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is a unique opportunity for researchers to bring controversial, contentious, and dangerous ideas to the Edinburgh Fringe , and for members of the public to engage with world class academics from all over the country outside of their ivory towers. Dr Cathy Bovill who focusses on student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Over the past two years, my co-author, Leo Lambert, and I interviewed nearly 400 people across American higher education including more than 200 students as well as academic staff and leaders from 28 diverse institutions. Professor Peter Felten, Learning & Teaching Conference 2019. Photo credit: A Bovill. Oct 21, 2019

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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 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 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. Both staff and students are invited to apply to run events and it’s a great way to experiment with new teaching and learning formats. View student’s games from the 2016 event on Open.Ed

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