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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. However, implementing co-creation faces hurdles like students’ reluctance to participate (Cook-Sather & Luz, 2015 ; Mapstone et al., A Systematic Literature Review of Students as Partners in Higher Education.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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Collegiate Commentary: Five communities created by staff-student projects

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

As universities are under an increasing level of regulation and accountability in relation to student success and retention, we see commitments towards partnership working as a form of best practice (see: Office for Students Student Engagement Strategy ).

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News from the uCreate Studio Makerspace

Teaching Matters Academic Support

This start-up, f ounded at the University in 2017 by Pedro Damas and Hubert Taczyński , aims to develop functional, affordable, and accessible 3D-printed prosthetics. George Dzavaryan, a University of Edinburgh alumni and Technical Director showcases Augment Bionics’ latest design.

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Mini-series: Balance for better – Diversifying Wikipedia

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Digital Sociology MSc students engage in workshops about how sociology is communicated and how knowledge is created and curated online each year as a response to the recent ASA article. Retrieved from [link] McAndrew, E., O’Connor, S., Thomas, S., & White, A. Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia. Johnson, I.;

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GeoScience Outreach: teaching science communication ‘beyond the programme’ and outside of the ‘Ivory Tower’

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This is how the Geoscience Outreach course is enriching the attributes with which students graduate from their university programmes to enter into the professional world – allowing them to explore a diverse range of future career paths. Feb 28, 2017 Joyful work at the allotment with Trinity Gardening Club.

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Global Challenges for Business: A model introductory course

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Designed by Dr Sarah Ivory , the new course was a response to criticism that previous years’ introductory business courses, which essentially used each week to showcase a different field in the study of business, lacked structure and purpose.