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Wherefore art thou…undergraduate education?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Global Challenges for Business Poster Presentation Award Night in the Playfair Library, Dr Sarah Ivory with winning students. I am certain I will greatly develop a broad skill set that will be invaluable throughout my university career … I am looking forward to continuing with it. Oct 11, 2018 Photo credit: Eoin Carey.

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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. Sep 27, 2018 From the start, we wanted a strand running through the programme that achieved particular aims. These were: A genuine contribution to communities local to the University.

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Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge

Teaching Matters Online Learning

These are all being repeated in year two (2017/2018) because of the positive feedback from staff and students alike along with new collaborations in three more subject disciplines. Translation Studies MSc ; and World Christianity MSc. The content audit also helps with assessing the assignment’s year-on-year sustainability.

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Welcome to September-October’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Innovation in Science Teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

18th Century, by Science Photo Library, CC0. Tim Drysdale Professor Timothy Drysdale is the Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education in the School of Engineering, having joined the University of Edinburgh in August 2018. Electricity demonstration.

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Welcome to September-October's Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Innovation in Science Teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

18th Century, by Science Photo Library, CC0. Tim Drysdale Professor Timothy Drysdale is the Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education in the School of Engineering, having joined the University of Edinburgh in August 2018. Electricity demonstration.