Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Photo credit: Flickr, Muffet, CC0 In this post, a visiting Research Fellow from Australia, Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, explores the question: is scaling-up of student-staff partnership initiatives necessarily a good approach?… Research shows that partnership initiatives are often small-scale.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

After two years of COVID-19-related disruptions, the percentage of first-time college students sticking with school has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). White students persisted at an 80.5%

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Key Statement : Intentionally developing a welcoming classroom environment increases student engagement and cultivates meaningful classroom relationships. Keywords: engagement, motivation, relationship. Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Some of the students also attend staff talks on educational topics, which they find helpful for their own teaching. Of the 8 students who have so far applied for the AFHEA across 2017 and 2018, all have been successful in achieving Associate Fellow status.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is a unique opportunity for researchers to bring controversial, contentious, and dangerous ideas to the Edinburgh Fringe , and for members of the public to engage with world class academics from all over the country outside of their ivory towers. Dr Cathy Bovill who focusses on student engagement.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 14, 2024

For example, your campus assessment monsters post is paired with chapter readings from Schuh and colleagues (2016) and Biddix (2018). While students may not retain some of the concepts from these chapters, I am always confident that they will remember a few of your monsters. Research methods and applications for student affairs.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

One of the foundational studies in this field is Healey, Flint, and Harrington's (2014), offering a conceptual model that outlines student engagement through partnership with faculty through four pathways: assessment projects, curriculum consultation, subject-based research, and SoTL (see Figure 1).

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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). How does prior knowledge influence learning engagement? Theoretical  framework, research and practice (pp. link] Garrison, D.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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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., link] Huang, R.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Photo credit: India trek students Dr Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Business School, talks to Teaching Matters about the huge challenges we are facing in HE to help students engage with problems that are truly relevant – especially the complex issues around social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Credit: EPSRC Proteus In this post, Dr Helen Szoor-McElhinney, an Engagement Strategist in the Deanery of Clinical Sciences, showcases the University of Edinburgh’s first Interdisciplinary Health and Wellbeing Science Shop, Our Health. What health research agendas would they set if they could?

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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., link] Huang, R.

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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. Next, we moved on to the student-led project.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 19, 2023

Although the list cited above is not exhaustive, my point is that multimodal approaches have shown to enhance the quality and quantity of feedback practices making them more relevant and detailed (Deeley, 2018). In my context of teaching undergraduate dental students, feedback practices are predominantly carried out face-to-face in clinics.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2024

Citing research about the significant health consequences of isolation, Murthy urged the country to “prioritize building social connection the same way we have prioritized other critical public health issues such as tobacco, obesity and substance use disorders.” In 2018, just 35% of students took online courses. Last year, U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. CSUEB’s supportive framework guides Latine/x students from enrollment through graduation, emphasizing culturally informed pedagogy and strong community ties,” says Sandeen. These provide students with valuable skills and connections.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

CC0 Q: What do a laboratory at 4700m, 34 Edinburgh students, and a bulldozer have in common? A: The APEX 5 high altitude medical research expedition, which gave its student volunteers and organisers a unique and unforgettable learning experience. Our research at 4,700m – 3.5

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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. Next, we moved on to the student-led project.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

According to Schaufeli (2013), engagement refers to involvement, focused effort, dedication, and absorption. Effectively creating an engaging online course requires planning, creativity, and ongoing interactions. A main component of successful teaching and learning is student engagement (Khan et al., This blog outlines.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research. General discussion ensued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the past five years, EPW has served 909 students, 68% of whom are Latino. Gonzalez had an internship that took her to the Czech Republic.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In this post, Dr Steve Kirkwood, a Senior Lecturer in Social Work, describes how he was inspired by a talk at the 2018 Learning and Teaching Conference to develop a board game as part of his new PhD students’ induction… You learn more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation. Designing a board game.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

180) have created a “ladder of student participation in curriculum design” that shows how student engagement in the curriculum can range from no engagement within a dictated, staff-controlled curriculum to significant levels of student engagement with student control of the curriculum (see below).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Led by PhD candidates Henry Mitchell and Tom Cunningham, the team of eight student researchers are creating a database of students from Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and the Americas from as early as 1700, and writing social histories of the marginalised student experience. Some of our early research proved really fruitful.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 1, 2018

Dr Cathy Bovill talks about her CoDI show on student engagement… How many engaged students does it take to change a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb is obsolete when the students question accepted forms of lighting and co-create new more sustainable ways of living. Why do unicorns and engaged students differ?…

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SRHE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Karen: I find really helpful what Diane Mulcahy (2018, p 13) says about space, that “Thinking the term ‘learning spaces’ as something we do (stage, perform, enact), rather than something we have (infrastructure) affords acknowledging the multiplicity, mutability and mutual inclusivity of spatial and pedagogic practices”.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 26, 2023

On a more empirical note, researchers have explored its potential in creating a virtual hangout place where real-time interactions, a phenomenon that Chad Ostrowski (2018) likened to ‘parking lot’ conversations around shared work, thanks to its collaborative interface.

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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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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. Based on this trip, I have now begun pursuing research into cotton production for my dissertation. Nov 15, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 23, 2020

One criticism often raised is that it tends to be a passive form of learning, in which student and teacher take their traditional roles of receivers and providers of knowledge. Moreover, the lecturer runs the risk of covering material the students already know. In addition, he supervises Senior Honours, MPhys and PhD research projects.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

They usually involve some kind of apprenticeship in learning the craft of doing geographical research. And residential field courses provide important moments for building a sense of community by helping forge students’ identities as geographers and their sense of belonging to Geography in Edinburgh. Reference : Ingold, T.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MAY 21, 2020

Remember to allow staff time to support students as they learn these ways of working and to mediate any tensions. Students’ perceptions of how they can do well in assessments are one of the strongest drivers of how they go about learning (Thomson and Lawson, 2018). Could your students contribute to Wikipedia together.

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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 Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

(Cronon, 2012) At The University of Edinburgh, we have quickly generated real examples of technology-enhanced learning activities appropriate to the curriculum and transformed our students, staff and members of the public from being passive readers and consumers to being active, engaged contributors. Bibliography Wadewitz, A.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g., Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten, 2014), which critically discusses and reflects on how universities can involve students in roles that, ‘actively shape and enhance their experiences of learning and teaching’ (Healey, Flint and Harrington, 2014).

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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). They have carefully chosen to pursue their degree and designed a research project that they feel passionately about.

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