Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 23rd October 2017. Since February we have dedicated a lot of time to reviewing all processes and feedback, aiding us to gain a greater understanding of how we can support all staffs and students realise their ideas as part of the Festival. Oct 6, 2017

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Look out for a Student Wellbeing Teaching Matters mini-series in July and August 2019. The benefits of blogging for PhD students (25th May 2017) Blogging is increasingly being recognised as an established method of communicating academic writing. This can also be downloaded as an Open Access e-book from Sense Publishers.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Alette Willis Alette Willis PhD is Chancellor’s Fellow/Lecturer in the school of Health in Social Sciences, a professional storyteller and award-winning children’s author (Dancing with Trees: Eco-tales of the British Isles, 2017), and a student on the Permaculture Association’s diploma programme.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 9, 2017

We intend to extend this to build a framework of techniques that students can build up over the course of their degree. A pilot of a technique for second year students ran in Festival of Creative Learning Week 2017. Zuzanna Konieczna Zuzanna Konieczna is currently a second year Medicinal and Biological Chemistry MChem student.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

I also now appreciate the importance of students engaging in thinking about their future careers as early as possible. Jan 10, 2017 It wasn’t that I was wrong in my approach before, but I didn’t really grasp that the twin concerns of academic performance and career aspiration could be interconnected.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We introduced the UCVME in 2014 as we wanted to formally recognise the important role our students play in our teaching and learning processes. We have had over 140 students enrol on the programme and, so far, 22 have completed the programme in 2017, and 35 in 2018. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the trip.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

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. Mar 2, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

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

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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

I was therefore keen to play a role in developing another online, interdisciplinary course based on my experiences and interests (for example, as is shared in this video that showcases part of the senate talk on research led-learning in May 2017), in addition to the numerous skills and networks I would gain and contribute to.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 12, 2017

His research interests include the development of student problem solving skills, diagnostic testing, and flipped classroom pedagogies. Apr 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).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Exemplified through the strong intellectual relationships she fosters with her students, reflection becomes not just one learning outcome out of many, but central to the very creation of effective experiential teaching environments. Let me take you to my ‘academic life-changing’ experience in June 2017.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy, responsible for supporting institutional strategy and initiatives relating to students’ employability, development and graduate attributes, as well as fostering associated local-level activities and enhancements. Jan 16, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

Time taken to create an environment in which relationships can develop is time well spent – even an apparently small thing, such as learning students’ names, can have an enormous positive impact on students’ sense of mattering and belonging. 2014) Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching: a guide for faculty.

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