Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

With this blog post we are delighted to announce the call for applications to participate in the curated week of the Festival, taking place from 19th – 23rd February 2018. This is a unique opportunity for you to embrace your creative spirit and find space for your imagination to flourish.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Nov 13, 2018 This year, Vikky will be applying for Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Her main areas of interest in veterinary medicine are wildlife, exotics, and teaching.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We took the opportunity presented by the Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) to engage IFP alumni in the construction of this student-led project. We invited all IFP alumni from 2018-2023, and seven volunteered from across all years of UG study.

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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. Bibliography Wadewitz, A. Teaching with Wikipedia: the Why, What, and How. A Ridiculous Gender Bias On Wikipedia Is Finally Being Corrected.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

UCVME students receiving their Certificates at the Vet School prize-giving Summer 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. Neil adds: The work with schools has really been embraced by our students. Sep 11, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, hairmann, CC0 The September theme on student engagement was true to its title, engaging over 5000 student and staff readers – a new milestone for Teaching Matters’ viewing figures! Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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MAY 8, 2019

Over the past few years, universities across the UK have been acknowledging the work led by BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) students, and are better understanding the necessity of a diverse and representative curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2017

This blog is an adapted extract from an invited opinion piece to be published in the Journal of Danish University Education in March 2018. Catherine Bovill Dr Catherine Bovill is Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh. Oct 5, 2017

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Role-playing can be used to directly link learning to a students’ real life experience, while also being a safe space to explore challenging opinions (Oberle 2004). The teaching team for the online MSc in Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health view assessments as a journey that students take over their three years on the programme.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

These projects also develop research and critical skills obtained when writing essays. Moreover, students engage with the ‘real word’ and solve ‘real problems’ compared to artificial ones posed by a lecturer. Tobias Thejll-Madsen Tobias Thejll-Madsen is a 4th year psychology student graduating July 2018.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Sep 27, 2018 Her teaching focus is in the recently established MA Health, Science and Society, and her research interests are in the experience of pain, and language in communication and creation of both research data and shared social space.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 Simon Fitzpatrick, a Learning Designer in EDE*, explains how it is equally important to focus on student engagement in online spaces as it is in face-to-face teaching… Recent adventures in helping academic colleagues design new MOOCs reminded me of some of the assumptions we all make when creating new online material.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While we recognise the benefits of this initiative for our own students, we are also aware that we need to offer them more support. Starting from September 2018, students can take this previously extra-curricular activity as a university course, gaining academic credit to formally recognise their learning.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nov 27, 2018 As someone who has tutored and run revision classes in the past, he understands the importance of good teaching and the need for constructive conversation surrounding it. Ludovic spent much of his upbringing in Malmö, Sweden, preparing him for the hostile conditions of Scottish weather.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

For the second semester of 2018-9, this course has been redeveloped by myself and Morgan Currie, as ‘ Data Design and the City’. This year, the course will focus on upcycling and the circular economy, and is open to all first and second year students. Oct 25, 2018 You can follow him on Twitter @jamesks and @edilivinglab.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

I have listened to the students’ insistence about the viability and longevity of Design Agency and, far from phasing it out, I have in fact expanded it into distinct 20 and 40 credit courses, some of which will be open to learners outside of the discipline in academic session 2018/19. Jun 7, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I also imagined that by creating interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate and postgraduate students to work on the research questions as part of their studies, they too could benefit from enriched learning experiences, learning alongside community partners and co creating the research together.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018 While at the University of Edinburgh, Nathan has been involved in the Project Gold Sustainability Award, and is in charge of increasing the awareness about mental health.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Kevin works within the project development team supporting on acquisitions, business case development, project implementation and financing and market research for renewable energy projects both in the UK and abroad. Oct 18, 2018

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, HarryJBurgess, CC0 In this post, Vanessa Ombura, a third year Civil Engineering student, describes her experience co-creating an interdisciplinary, online University-wide course, with the city of Edinburgh as a site of learning… Over the summer of 2018, I had the wonderful opportunity of working under the Usher Institute (..)

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

She specialises in new forms of mobility, including virtual exchange, and is passionate about enhancing the student experience through the provision of holistic support including academic skills, social integration, culture shock, mental and emotional wellbeing, and employability. Dec 11, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Ryan Gilmour Ryan Gilmour is an electrical engineering student in the School of Engineering, with a passion for renewable energy, teaching and developing solutions for the 1 billion people without electricity access. Nov 22, 2018

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018 While at the University of Edinburgh, Nathan has been involved in the Project Gold Sustainability Award, and is in charge of increasing the awareness about mental health.

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JULY 4, 2018

Jul 4, 2018 Robbie Nicol Robbie Nicol is a senior lecturer in outdoor and environmental education and Deputy Head of the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jan 16, 2018 He obtained his DPhil in Politics from Oxford University and has since held positions at the University of Louvain, Stanford University, the Asian University for Women and University College Dublin.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 6, 2020

Three of these posts featured in the 2018 top ten , while the other seven were published this year… Teaching Matters in 2019 Teaching Matters readership has continued to grow steadily throughout 2019; the October issue (research-led teaching and learning) attracted over 10,000 hits. Happy New Year from Teaching Matters!

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In her literature review on student engagement, Vicki Trowler (2010) argues that “Engagement is more than involvement or participation – it requires feelings and sensemaking as well as activity” (p.5). Relating this back to Trowler’s points about engagement, we found that by giving extrinsic rewards for behavior (i.e.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

The bed-rock of co-created curriculum is positive student-staff relationships: “Frequent and high quality student–instructor interactions are one of the most empirically supported educational best practices in higher education” (Bingham et al 2021, p13). International Journal for Students as Partners 1 (1) 1–23.

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