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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. 2017, October 20).

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4 Online Teaching Strategies To Promote Collaboration and Community

The Scholarly Teacher

Farrell and Brunton (2020) uncovered themes essential to online student engagement. They found that the peer community created through online forums, social interactions, and collaborative activities were significant factors in students feeling supported and encouraged, leading to their overall course and content engagement.

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Board Game Jams and Creative Learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The games were created using digitised images from the University of Edinburgh Library. Students reported leaving the session with a greater understanding of the resources available for them and how they could share their own work for others to re-use. We’ll be returning for 2017 with an updated event, Board Game Jam: the expansion.

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Global Challenges in Business Awards Ceremony Night: A first step to a bright future

Teaching Matters Academic Support

But attending the first ever GCB Awards Ceremony Night in 2017 gave me an opportunity to take a minute and look back at how much we had all achieved throughout this course. The event took place in the Playfair Library, one of the most beautiful locations in Edinburgh. Previously she attended The King Alfred School in London.

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Engaging students in learning outside the university

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

An opportunity for students to gain developmental, transferable skills by learning outside the library and the lecture theatre from the start. The creation of a porous element beyond the somewhat cloistered university environment, such that students could make experiential connections between ‘book learning’ and ‘real life’.

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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. on the first floor of the Main Library, George Square. We are always there to support users and make sure that people never give up on their ideas.

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Adding interactivity in mathematics online workbooks using JSXGraph in STACK

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Using JSXGraph JSXGraph is a versatile and cross-browser library designed for displaying interactive geometry, function plotting, graphs, and data visualization within a web browser [4]. Since 2017 she has been working as Facilitator in Technology Enhanced Mathematical Education at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.