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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

To wrap up the year, this editorial post celebrates the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2018. Conversations between staff and students about such topics need to be further encouraged across the University, and initiatives such as Cake and Coffee Conversations could be one way to take this forward in Schools.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

What we did in summer 2018 was employ a student intern to act as a consultant, give us a name for our new product, and design us a brand. Summer 2018 was successful. Grandidge, 2018) References Careers Service. 2018, November 5). Intern case studies: Design Intern 2018. Conceptions of students as partners.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Barrie, 2004:262 However, what I have noticed through practice is that this undoubtedly critical element of higher education are often still attempted to be “taught”. This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al., and Swann, R.

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Students as partners in education: Experiences from the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

UCVME students receiving their Certificates at the Vet School prize-giving Summer 2018. We have had over 140 students enrol on the programme and, so far, 22 have completed the programme in 2017, and 35 in 2018. This year, Vikky will be applying for Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

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Developing virtual exchange at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Online Learning

NICE aims to enhance student employability by facilitating the development of intercultural competencies and entrepreneurial skills, and their practical application in “real-life” situations to address global challenges by collaborating in virtual, transnational groups using tailor-made ICT tools. Dec 11, 2018

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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

We offer up to 6 spaces within each cohort, and the students selected are ones who show a keen interest in working in Higher Education in the future. As well as their Peer Assisted Learning activities, the students attend and present at staff educational journal clubs. Sep 25, 2018