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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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Mini-series: The importance of diversifying the curriculum: Reflections from the Senate Task Group

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The membership of the group spanned all three colleges, academics and professional services, and created a space for holistic discussions about this to occur. She studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University, and held the position of Black and Minority Ethnic Officer in 2017/18. May 8, 2019

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

To continue to mitigate stressors unduly impacting marginalized learners, it is critical that institutions continue to work to deeply embed universal and inclusive design for learning within the curriculum, co-curriculum, and professional service environment (Meyer & Rose, 2002). Crenshaw, K. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241-1299.

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Bringing politics back in to plans for the digital transformation of Higher Education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Applying these same design principles to higher education can transform the way that our stakeholders experience learning, teaching, research, and professional services. Jan 19, 2021

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Costs and Benefits of Adding 30-units to Accounting Students' Requirements for Licensure as a CPA

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

2016 – 2017. 2017 - 2018. According to the SEC’s investigation between 2017 and 2019, 49 EY audit professionals cheated on exams by using answer keys and sharing them with their colleagues. In addition, “hundreds of other audit professionals” cheated on courses, including those addressing ethical obligations.

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The point of an on-campus education

Teaching Matters Academic Support

US academic and historian Professor Ibram Kendi explains this better than I can in his address to graduating doctoral students at the University of Florida in 2017 (you can listen to his full speech on YouTube ) when he says: When I say intellectual, I’m not referring to someone who knows a wealth of information.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Our own study at UCL into the impacts on academic and professional services staff revealed many tensions, stresses and difficulties encountered by staff remote working, with evidence of differential impacts on women and those with less workspace ( [link] ). In 2017 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.