Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

However, I would consider several good examples from the Teaching Matters blog to be co-created, such as the Conservation Science course , Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World course, many examples of experiential education and place-based education , and creative learning and teaching with Lego. Bovill, C., & Felten, P.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We have had over 140 students enrol on the programme and, so far, 22 have completed the programme in 2017, and 35 in 2018. Activities include outreach workshops with local schools, like Liberton High School, to foster the link with young people aspiring to enter higher education.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Postsecondary educators have been increasingly focused on supporting positive student mental health over the past decades. Marginalized sociodemographic groups navigate more barriers and challenges (stressors) within our society, and postsecondary education institutions. Stress and Mental Health in Marginalized Sociodemographic Groups.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

This doesn’t mean they have to be fixed on a career path, but rather that they should make the most of their university experience (develop new skills, broaden horizons and networks through part-time work, student societies, or volunteering). Jan 10, 2017 We can’t afford to ignore this concern.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

In this post, Professor Mike Shipston, Professor Sue Welburn, Dr John Menzies, and Cristina Matthews, showcase the award-winning Zhejiang University – University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE) … It is not every day that a transformation in transnational educational programmes is realised. Photo credit: Ye Zhiguo.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

Understanding Co-creation and Collaboration Co-creation in education is all about making teaching and learning a two-way process, where the voices of both students and academic professionals are considered to design engaging and comprehensive courses ( Bovill et al., 2016 ; Mapstone et al., 2016 ; Mapstone et al., Ankita: I agree.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Future Teaching Matters themes include: Peer teaching – March 2017 Tutoring and demonstrating – April 2017 PhD experience – May 2017 If you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media on any upcoming themes or any teaching-related subject, let us know. Feb 1, 2017

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Constructive alignment as a principle was ‘generalised from the context of in-service teacher education’, [3] leaving one to wonder whether Biggs’ argument might have been any different had the title of his 1996 article been ‘Enhancing Learning (instead of teaching ) through constructive alignment’? Accessed 24 October 2017.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

For example, based on rigorous research into student learning 40 years ago, Astin claimed that: The amount of student learning and personal development associated with any educational program is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of student involvement in that program. References Astin, A. pdf Bingham, B.E.,

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2017

CC0 [Pexels] As academics, I believe that we have a responsibility to create opportunities for equitable access to higher education. Funding sustainability Continuity of funding is vital to ensure a sustainable impact on education provision in LMICs.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 27, 2017

In September 2016 Sally Brown , an assessment, learning and teaching in higher education consultant, was invited to speak. The most recent session in February 2017 was particularly well received by the participants. Apr 27, 2017 There was a general update from Susan and a chance for DoTs to highlight any issues in their school.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The academic year 2017/2018 is the first year both courses will have the full 4 years of students in place. Since the start of 2017 she has been Programme Director for Interior Design at Edinburgh College of Art, and has been the Interiors Co-ordinator for the SCF collaboration since its inception in 2015. Dec 7, 2017

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 9, 2017

A pilot of a technique for second year students ran in Festival of Creative Learning Week 2017. Reconceptualising Feedback in Higher Education: Developing Dialogue with Students, Routledge, pp. 2006), The impact of self-and peer grading on student learning, Educ. Mar 9, 2017 and Taras M. (ed.), and Good E.,

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MAY 8, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, rawpixel, CC0 This first post of the mini-series in ‘ P romoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum’ is written by Diva Mukherji, Vice President Education at Edinburgh University Students’ Association. May 8, 2019

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2018

Within universities there is a growing trend to apply this method to collaborative thinking about futures for teaching and learning, often as a way of understanding how digital shifts are re-shaping education. Sian Bayne Sian is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Moray House School of Education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The benefits of blogging for PhD students (25th May 2017) Blogging is increasingly being recognised as an established method of communicating academic writing. A huge thank you to all our contributors and readers, and here’s to celebrating more wonderful, supportive and inspiring teaching and learning practices in 2019… 10.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

iStock [photominus] In May 2017, I visited Legoland® in Denmark. Active Learning in Higher Education 6 (1) 17-31. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 33 (2) 209-223. 2016) Teaching spaces design and development at LSE: an evaluation of impact on teaching and learning. Oct 5, 2017 Revell, A. &

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

This follows a consultation run in the first half of 2017 which showed that there was a strong demand for more resources of this kind. Dec 19, 2017 The University has world-class collections of books, archives, art and museum objects, whose potential for learning and teaching can be unlocked through digitisation.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Te acher Education, 7(3), 217-226 Delahunty, J., Technology, Pedagogy and Education. Louise Connelly Dr Louise Connelly MA (Hons), MSc, PhD, PgDip is an E-Learning Developer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Feb 9, 2017 Verenikina, I. and Jones, P.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is in this context that the University was awarded its first Key Action 203 Strategic Partnership funding by the European Commission in 2017 to develop the Network for Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship (NICE) in collaboration with 7 other European universities*.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

The new Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security at the University of Edinburgh will provide world-leading research and innovation in support of global food and environmental security, sustainable rural development, and human and animal wellbeing. You can find her on Twitter @jilly_mackay Aug 15, 2017

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

program , which saw us developing a course prototype delivered in the form of a website , a Learn page, and a final presentation. This was under the University’s Employ.ed Through the internship, I learned to embrace the iterative and tangled process of co-creation and user-based design.

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JULY 11, 2017

Nurse Education Today, 14, 299-305. J Med Educ, 58, 457 – 461. Medical Teacher, 29, 297-300 Catriona Bell Dr Catriona Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Education. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jul 11, 2017 Peer review of teaching in medicine. Siddiqui, Z. Jonas-Dwyer, D. &

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Today, the higher education system faces a similar situation once more, with a worldwide shift to a more digital, fluid and connected way of living. The Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, Milton Keynes, UK, p. This has implications for all our teaching, not just in the sciences and engineering.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Qualitative research done by James Lamb, Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, highlighted some of the things that still makes students turn up to their lectures: the human element. Edit: Teaching Matters has recently published a mini-series about Lecture Recording in Higher Education. Dickson, P.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Nonetheless, in the UK, higher education largely remains structured on a conventional, disciplinary basis. Described as ‘one of the more contentious curriculum issues’ (Blackmore and Kandiko, 2012, p. On the other hand, interdisciplinarity poses a range of challenges to the higher education sector. Feb 14, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 27, 2023

Traditionally when thinking about the learning taking place at a University, the vision that emerges is one of defined Undergraduate and Postgraduate degree programmes focussed on an educational pathway for young students coming directly from school. Alongside learning, NTL is also an important route to engagement and to impact.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 17, 2017

Recent graduates of two online programmes, one in Clinical Education, the other in the Clinical Management of Pain; were invited to participate. Students on both programmes are practicing healthcare professionals, and are generally mid-career, either looking to enhance their existing skills or develop new skills for future career development.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 12, 2017

He teaches on the undergraduate programmes in physics and also conducts pedagogic research as a member of the Edinburgh Physics Education Research group (EdPER). His research interests include the development of student problem solving skills, diagnostic testing, and flipped classroom pedagogies. Apr 12, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Two educators at Stanford University, Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, developed the approach to help students to design their life at university and beyond (Burnett and Evans, 2018). PwC (2017). “The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030” UK Commission for Education and Skills. Krumboltz, J. and Levin, A.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It is reassuring, therefore, to note the current widespread interest in active learning methods in STEM Higher Education. Heather has recently completed a secondment to the Institute for Academic Development, conducting a two-year project on flipped learning. Sep 19, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Nov 21, 2017 As an Applied Physics student in Slovenia, Kevin struggled with anxiety, and since graduating, he has dedicated his free time to helping students with disabilities graduate with ease.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Joël Reland Joël graduated from Edinburgh in 2017 with an MSc in International Political Theory. Whilst writing her postgraduate dissertation on the ethics of the Anthropocene, she completed a traineeship at the International Center for Climate Governance in Venice, Italy.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Edit: Teaching Matters has recently published a mini-series about Lecture Recording in Higher Education. Eli Appleby-Donald Eli Appleby-Donald was the Technology Support Officer at the School of Divinity, with a background in front of class training and eLearning programme development. You can view the 13 posts here.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Let me take you to my ‘academic life-changing’ experience in June 2017. As Director of Education in Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, I sat at the back of a large lecture room, in which 150 first- and second-year students in GeoSciences gathered to be informed about upcoming study opportunities abroad.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These lessons could be some of your most important university lectures if this aspect of academia was not emphasised in a student’s previous education. This showed students’ common logical flaws and biases, how to construct effective arguments from premises and conclusions, and gave advice on effectively sourcing information.

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