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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.
As a result, staff time will not be wasted updating and publishing the same information in multiple locations reducing the risk of inconsistent information being presented to students. Sarah has previously worked in student support leadership roles completing a Masters in Education (Leadership and Management).
Joanna shows how the flipped classroom approach can be of particular benefit to staff members’ learning experience… The Learning and Development team launched their new learning offer to staff across the University on the 3 rd September 2018. Sep 13, 2018 Here is our story.
Jackie Barnhart Jackie Barnhart is the Student and Academic Services Manager for the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, and is one of the Professional Services staff making a contribution to the School’s enhancement project on Joint Degree Programmes. Oct 1, 2018
Another key paper from 2018 is a study from the School of Law at Swansea University, conducted as part of their pilot of institutional lecture recording. Her background is in the design, management and support for academic IT services, particularly those used to support teaching and learning activities online. Nov 21, 2018
In this post, Dr Andi Móring, from the School of GeoSciences , presents the University’s first ever Hungarian MOOC… On 1 st of October, 2018 the first ever Hungarian MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was launched by the University of Edinburgh on the EdX platform. Dec 13, 2018 Andi is a keen science communicator.
In a bid to improve data sharing with students for enhancement, standard high-level student feedback reports were developed and made available to student School Representatives as part of a pilot in three Schools in 2018/19. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the European Quality Assurance Forum. Aug 15, 2019
Photo credit: CC0 [link] In this Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods post, Professor Tim Drysdale, Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education in the School of Engineering, offers an open source solution to managing student marking in the remote era.
Jon Jack Jon is a Learning Technology Team Manager in the Educational Design and Engagement team (Learning, Teaching & Web, Information Services). Tracey Madden Tracey joined Information Services in 2018 to work on Learning Design and service support.
His team manages and supports over 400 central teaching spaces, from design and project management to day to day support and maintenance. Nov 8, 2018 Euan Murray Euan Murray is the head of the Learning Spaces Technology team in the University of Edinburgh.
of the 424 Course Organisers that responded to the survey reported using mid-course feedback in their 2018/19 courses. Mid-course feedback is valued by staff: 78% of respondents considered mid-course feedback to be useful. Postcards, or other paper-based approaches, are the most popular method for gathering feedback. Jul 29, 2019
In 2018-19, Edinburgh had the largest Welcome Week Facebook group with over 5000 followers. Initially set up as a practitioner forum it has developed into a learning provider and brings together more than 100 colleagues from across the University. She manages the Student Support Services’ annual review process.
Jackie Barnhart Jackie Barnhart is the Student and Academic Services Manager for the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, and is one of the Professional Services staff making a contribution to the School’s enhancement project on Joint Degree Programmes. Oct 1, 2018
The large scale rollout of the technology to our centrally managed teaching rooms has been designed to provide support to as many courses as possible. Follow her on Twitter @HoneybHighton Sep 12, 2018 The lecture recording team have engaged with students to explore how access to recordings can make a difference to their success.
UoE contact: John Bennett , Go Abroad Projects Manager. Dec 11, 2018 **INCiTE partners: Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), University of Sydney (Australia), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange (China).
Image credit: The Reflection Toolkit , The University of Edinburgh In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond. You can reach us at Gavin.McCabe@ed.ac.uk.
She is passionate about both development and application of statistical methods as well as promoting those to new generation of social science researchers. Oct 30, 2018 Her academic interests span broadly across the area of quantitative methods for social science research and new forms of data.
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