The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With this understanding of human evolutionary history, instruction is best designed to promote curiosity and the ability for students to predict new learning from prior knowledge. Educators should then realize that emotional learning happens alongside academic learning. 2006) suggests that students will experience joy.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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., The programme has been developed and enhanced each year and regularly has around 200 students participating. References Coneyworth, L., Evans, Nguyen, T.,

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 1, 2025

By presenting physiological concepts in unconventional ways, I help students visualise complex processes, transforming abstract ideas into more memorable experiences. The role of analogies in learning Analogies have long been recognised as a powerful educational tool (Gentner & Jeziorski, 1993). 1, 2019, p. 1, 2007, pp.

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The Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In our state, K–12 BIPOC students are increasing (37% of the population in 2021–2022; NDE, 2023a), but the shortage of BIPOC teachers is also growing, as White teachers constituted 95% of the workforce that same year (NDE, 2023b). Our Why The faculty involved in this project identify as BIPOC teacher educators. 2022; Wright et al.,

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University Business

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Colleges and universities across the world are leveraging the credentials to fuel student engagement, brand differentiation and workforce development opportunities for learners of all ages, according to a new report from Coursera. higher education leaders’ perspective on for-credit micro-credentials, click here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience. This enables students to focus on their studies.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Stephanie Wasmanski , Wilkes University Keywords : Student Choice, Student Autonomy, Self-Determination Theory Key Statement: Supporting students’ basic psychological needs of autonomy and competence through self-selected activities and positive feedback may enhance student engagement and motivation.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In the guide, we outline four different definitions of research-led learning and teaching (adapted from Griffiths, 2004), which we are using at The University of Edinburgh: Learning ABOUT RESEARCH: Students’ learning is informed by research – the content of learning is derived from research within the field. Planet , 15(1),16-19.

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Campus Groups

AUGUST 2, 2022

We know how critical the fall is for student engagement. It is when new students immerse themselves in college life and returning students renew with campus activities and traditions. This article outlines 5 student engagement strategies for the fall.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Image credit: unsplash, Ying Ge, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Adan Chew, Dr Jess Gurney, and Dr Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, from Edinburgh Medical School, explore the concept of student-centred education through the lens of medical education and clinical practice. 2021; Trinidad, 2020)​.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 12, 2022

Four pedagogical approaches for creating an engaging virtual learning environment are shared. All educators have one goal in mind: to create the best learning environment possible for their students. For this to happen, instructional activities and student collaboration must be authentic, meaningful, and purposeful.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Key Statement: This article offers strategies that can be used to provide an environment for students to interact and connect during virtual sessions and allow students to feel as if they are taking an active role in their education. A main component of successful teaching and learning is student engagement (Khan et al.,

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Kartic Subr, a Senior Lecturer in Computer Graphics within the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, delves into the pioneering realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in educational settings. The arrival of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), the latest tool in the educational landscape, is no exception.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 5, 2024

For years I have been using Visual Journals as a tool and the visual journaling process as a critical component of my teaching and learning practice to procure meaning-making, metacognitive awareness, and assessment of student learning within the arts and arts education. ACRL visual literacy competency standards for higher education.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The college also offers a 3+2 Engineering Program , where students spend three years at Earlham before transferring to an affiliated university, such as Columbia or Case Western Reserve, to complete an engineering degree. Small Class Sizes With a 9:1 student-faculty ratio , Earlham offers personalized attention and mentoring opportunities.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In the classroom, this subject is typically discussed in only a handful of courses, although educational opportunities exist in many courses across a variety of disciplines. Chemical education has already embraced gamification through such diverse tools as board games (Montejo Bernardo et al., Acknowledgments.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037.

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University Business

JULY 17, 2023

Additionally, with 60% of reported hate crimes in 2019 being fueled by race, negative campus assessments by Black students can affect their persistence and retention rates. Choose board members who specialize in winning charitable donations and build more systemic engagement with all alumni rather than a network.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Image credit: unsplash, Ying Ge, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Adan Chew, Dr Jess Gurney, and Dr Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, from Edinburgh Medical School, explore the concept of student-centred education through the lens of medical education and clinical practice. 2021; Trinidad, 2020)​.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Most descriptions of the practice of ungrading focus on using formative feedback rather than summative judgment to guide students along their learning path, and the practice has many advocates in the education field, including Jesse Stommel, Alfie Kohn, and Susan D. Stommel (2023) has used ungrading in classes of 150 students or more!

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Students also had a PDF of the lecture on the learning management system to support the text accessibility online in case they wanted to print it and make notes. Social engagement is crucial for effective active learning and has proven to be on the forefront of successful active learning. Education Sciences , 11 (1), 2.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

higher education. percent since 2019, before the pandemic began. And one-third of adult members of Generation Z say they tend not to trust higher education. And yet, this fall the University of Utah admitted a record class of first-year students for the third year in row. I don’t buy it.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As part of this talk, Carol reminded us that successful education change often goes wrong the first time. I would add to this that course and programme designs that have worked well with one cohort of students might well need to be adapted for the particular diversity of the next cohort. Nov 7, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

For example, based on rigorous research into student learning 40 years ago, Astin claimed that: The amount of student learning and personal development associated with any educational program is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of student involvement in that program. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2019

Interestingly, they said that it also gave them an insight into some of the challenges lecturers face, for example, when recruiting for the evaluation focus group one said “ I was personally surprised by lack of student engagement”. Jan 24, 2019 Sam is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and co-directs the MSc PA for Health.

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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 Online Learning

MARCH 18, 2021

Catherine Bovill Dr Catherine Bovill is Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh and Visiting Fellow at the University of Winchester. In 2019-2020 she was a Fulbright Scholar based in the USA.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

“I’ve observed the level of bipartisan support for these issues increasing over the last couple of years, which is really promising,” said Rodd Monts, director of state policy for SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit organization that works to help young people overcome homelessness through education.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 23, 2023

Photo credit: Ileana Iacobescu In this extra post, Heidi Smith, Alison Parker and Jessica Chamberlin from Moray House School of Education and Sport showcase the events surrounding the 50 th anniversary of the Outdoor and Environmental Education postgraduate programmes at The University of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Dr Geoff Bromiley ‘s upcoming post relates to Elizabeth’s second point: he shows how insightful questions asked by students on a field trip to Cyprus helped him conceptualise a new research paper. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. Oct 3, 2019

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MAY 21, 2020

You are looking for safe opportunities for students to try out the thinking and working practices used by experts in your area and to figure out what practices make sense for them in that context (Fawns and O’Shea, 2019). Could your students contribute to Wikipedia together. Higher Education, 66 , 283-296. Christie, H.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 23, 2020

To some degree, this feedback is perfectly understandable: students are asked to do derivations at exams and observing how a professional physicist tackles a derivation is not dissimilar to an apprentice observing a master when learning a craft. Sometimes, The Old Ways Are The Best Ways, [link] (date accessed 4 October 2019) [4] Mulvihill, M.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 7, 2019

At the end of the course, criteria-based facilitated group discussions are used to explore students’ engagement with the process. Critical Pedagogy as Collective Social Expertise in Higher Education, International Journal of Progressive Education, 2(3): 47-65. Mar 7, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 14, 2019

This is a challenge for students and teachers alike when ‘peer learning’ – the mutual learning when students at a similar level teach each another – is used. We investigated the factors that influence whether students engage with peer learning in the workplace. Mar 14, 2019 What did we find?

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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. In the news The University of Edinburgh recently won at the Herald Higher Education Awards 2019 for its Wikimedia in the Curriculum work.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Student-staff partnership is now a timeless concept and integral practice within Higher Education (HE) ( Bovill, 2019 ). This includes the use of Student Partnership Agreements (SPA) which seem to be widespread amongst Scottish HEIs.

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