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Co-creation and collaboration in course design: Our journey with SACHA

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

In this blog post, Pooja and Ankita, SACHA alumni discuss co-creation and collaboration in course design. Navigating Gaps and Strategies for Effective Co-Creation Pooja: In my experience, student-staff partnerships in curriculum design can profoundly enhance the learning experience and boost engagement. 2016 ; Mapstone et al.,

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

2017), there are also many benefits! For example, students’ and staff members’ increased enjoyment of learning and teaching alongside their professional development are particularly notable (Bovill & Bulley, 2011; Lubicz-Nawrocka, 2018; Lubicz-Nawrocka & Simoni, 2018; Matthews, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al., Mercer-Mapstone, L.,

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Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge

Teaching Matters Online Learning

.” Jon Tennant , September 2017 The Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh has supported three Wikipedia in the Classroom assignments in year one (2016/2017) in 3 very different disciplines: Reproductive Biology Hons.; Oct 12, 2017 Translation Studies MSc ; and World Christianity MSc.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Some of our most engaged recent alumni are former participants in the Award, and contribute to group input sessions as part of the Award, as well as other student experience initiatives within the school. One of our newly appointed academics, and now a Senior Teaching Fellow in Marketing, Dr Pauline Ferguson, took on this work in 2017.

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Mini-series: Balance for better – Diversifying Wikipedia

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We also work with student societies (Law & Technology, History, Translation, Women in STEM, Wellcomm Kings), and have held events for Ada Lovelace Day, LGBT History Month, Black History Month, and celebrated Edinburgh’s Global Alumni; working with the UncoverEd project , and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. O’Connor, S.,

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“It’s a Wonderful Workshop”: innovative tutor training for the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Apr 25, 2017 Emma teaches on several core courses within the School of Law and is involved with aspects of the general management and co-ordination of the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice.

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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

She is the link Careers Consultant for the Moray House School of Education ( Suzanne.Agnew@ed.ac.uk ) Nov 30, 2017 dave.saunders@ed.ac.uk ) Suzanne Agnew Suzanne works at the University of Edinburgh Careers Service.