The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 29, 2023

The diversity and multicultural nature of today’s college classroom calls for use of culturally responsive practices to improve student engagement and learning (Mohammad & Nordin, 2017). But what does this look like in the higher education classroom? 2010; Garrison & Arbaugh, 2007; Swan et al., 2010; Swan et al.,

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 27, 2025

This initiative involved extensive research and collaboration with various university stakeholders, showcasing a dedication to exploring innovative assessment methods that enhance student engagement and learning. Moore, PhD, JD, MPH at Prairie View A & M University (HBCU ) Since 2018, Dr. Tondra L.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To wrap up the year, this editorial post celebrates the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2018. Look out for a Student Wellbeing Teaching Matters mini-series in July and August 2019. This list captures some of the prevalent teaching and learning issues that have been swirling around the general HE zeitgeist this year.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

Introduction For over a decade, Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, or simply Students as Partners (SaP), has gained popularity as a high-impact practice in higher education. Engagement through partnership: Students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education. Cook-Sather, A.,

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 26, 2024

Schools could organize workshops during the summer months to carry out an orientation workshop to introduce students, especially those struggling with learning through technology management systems. English and review games are suitable for active learning engagement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How it works: Barnard’s PCAs are sophomores, juniors and seniors who offer a variety of career services for other students—from one-on-one advising on résumés and cover letters to leading workshops hosted by student organizations and assisting in resource creation for the larger advising and programs team.

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While the private online school is still in its embryonic stages since its founding in 2018, it aims to recruit over 100,000 students in the next few years, according to PIX 11. Cross-disciplinary, project-based learning Student engagement is falling off; this especially rings true for the higher ed space.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

on Campus 2018 programme. on Campus is a structured internship programme for undergraduate students in their 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year. However, my line manager Andy Todd was always on hand to answer any questions I had, and the whole Digital Skills and Training team were really welcoming and friendly. Sep 6, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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. The topics covered are split into two areas: Personal Development and Management.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

Moreover, students engage with the ‘real word’ and solve ‘real problems’ compared to artificial ones posed by a lecturer. In essence, when looking at attributes students should develop while at university, for me, considering student destination is essential. May 22, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 23, 2023

How is the student voice involved in quality? Student engagement is one of the key elements of the Scottish Quality Enhancement Framework, where students are encouraged to work in partnership with staff and an aim is to give students a greater voice. Who is sparqs?

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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 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 Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This year, I attended the GCB Awards Ceremony Night 2018, and would like to share everything about it, including students’ thoughts on how studying this course has impacted their lives. – Ricksha I managed to discover my confidence due to Sarah’s motivation in lectures. Dec 6, 2018

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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 Academic Support

JUNE 2, 2020

Welcome Week 2018. In this introductory post for June’s issue on Student Transitions, Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services, describes the various initiatives the University of Edinburgh has been undertaking to help students transition into the university experience.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Photo credit: Flip Design Agency Following on from her earlier post this year , Zoe Patterson, Programme Director for Graphic Design at ECA, describes another student engagement initiative that benefits both undergraduate and school students… What the f**k is Graphic Design? Sep 13, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

That is how I came across the MSc Carbon Management course at Edinburgh University. The Carbon Management syllabus is made up of three pillars: Science, Business and Economics. Without a doubt the interdisciplinary nature of the Carbon Management course opened the door to my current occupation. Oct 18, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This showed students’ common logical flaws and biases, how to construct effective arguments from premises and conclusions, and gave advice on effectively sourcing information. These lessons could be some of your most important university lectures if this aspect of academia was not emphasised in a student’s previous education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 27, 2019

In this article, Lila Pitcher, Student Intern with Information Services, talks about her experience of co-creating the Information Services Group (ISG) Intern Blog during the summer of 2018. Another dimension of managing the blog came with promoting it. Editing my peers’ work made me look at my own differently.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 8, 2021

Photo credit: iStock CC0 In this post, Margaret MacDougall and Sophia Wong Ching Hwai share their thoughts on implementing per-session feedback as an effective way of creating a sense of partnership between students and instructors and enhancing student engagement. Be receptive to teacher training!

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The importance of moving away from viewing feedback as transmission of information, and a product passively received from teachers, to an active process that students engage with (Winstone et al. 2022) is well recognised in the literature (Boud and Molloy, 2013; Carless and Boud, 2018; Winstone and Carless, 2019). and Molloy, E.

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Campus Groups

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A self-taught web developer, Michael transitioned from architecture to building software in 2018. These skills translated seamlessly into the world of software when I made the switch in 2018. MICHAEL: In 2017-2018, I traveled with a friend to 13 countries. Outside of work, Michael has many passions. Please stay tuned.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 16, 2019

The pathways model aims to promote experiential learning , encourage reflection and highlight the importance of interdisciplinary learning to students when engaging in sustainability issues. In September 2018, we launched two pathways, with one framed around the Sustainable Development Goals, and the other on Climate Change.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Photo credit: India Trek students Recently, Dr Winston Kwon wrote about a student engagement initiative , which involved two dozen students from multiple disciplines trekking across India. Nov 15, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In particular, the Ethics event was well-attended and well-received where Dr Angus MacBeth (Lecturer in Clinical Psychology) provided students with a better understanding of ethical principles and application procedures. Finally, in a post-conference social, we celebrated our achievements in 2017-2018 as a community. Nov 20, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to student figures from the 2018-2019 school year, there were 25,881 undergraduate students at the university, as opposed to 15,796 postgraduates (10,487 taught and 5,309 research). Experiences of psychological distress and sources of stress and support during medical training: a survey of medical students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 11, 2022

. “Generating immersive large-scale virtual field work for Zoology students” : [link] Richard Fitzpatrick (Deanery of Biomedical Sciences) & Prof Tom Little (School of Biology) brilliantly demonstrate how they managed to replicate in-person field experience through a highly interactive digital environment.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Previous studies have highlighted difficulties for both domestic, EU and international (non-EU) students (Evans et al., However, there is limited evidence of effective peer support approaches for PGT students, and PGT students have been described as the ‘overlooked cohort’ (Coneyworth, et al., Evans, Nguyen, T.,

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 26, 2023

Two weeks prior, students were informed about the activity’s design on our Blackboard learning management system. It included a short video on how to use Padlet, discussion prompts, ‘compare and discuss’ exercises were also included to guide students around the activity (Figure 1).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

A similar project was carried out in the Summer of 2018, with this year’s students presenting findings at the largest international conference on astronomy and space science: the 2018 International Astronautical Congress in Bremen. References Barrie, S. and Swann, R. Adelaide, October 2017. Augrandjean, F., Doublet, S.,

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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 Academic Support

JUNE 2, 2020

Welcome Week 2018. In this introductory post for June’s issue on Student Transitions, Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services, describes the various initiatives the University of Edinburgh has been undertaking to help students transition into the university experience.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 10, 2018

Student partnerships An important aspect of the project was to include the student voice and we took a student partnership approach. Jan 10, 2018 Her PhD work is about the meaning of new trends towards “openness” in science.

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