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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

This is a lesson to step out into the adventure that is student engagement and partnership – you never know where it may lead! Recognising and developing students as teachers: introduction of a novel Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education. References 1. Stansbie, N., Mellanby, R. and Bell, C.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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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. Dec 20, 2018

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Graphic Design in a Box

Teaching Matters Academic Support

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

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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

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

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The ‘other side’ of the university: Employ.ed on Campus Internship

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Aug 1, 2016 Heather Booton Heather Booton is a third year English Literature undergraduate, currently working as a Communications Intern at the Institute for Academic Development.

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