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Using data to enhance the student experience: Do you have good practice to share?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Exploring what counts in higher education, on 3 and 4 June 2020, in Glasgow. The Enhancement Themes are key areas identified and agreed by the Scottish higher education sector as a means for institutions, academic staff, support staff and students to work together in a focused way to enhance the learning experience for students.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Top ten tips for teaching online

Teaching Matters Academic Support

2019), we cite the musician Bjork, who said that “If electronic music has no soul, it is because nobody put it there.” The level of engagement that is possible in online teaching came as a surprise to participants in Aitken & Loads’ (2019) paper describing the experiences of educators new to online teaching. and Loads, D.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Benefits and challenges of blended learning

Teaching Matters Online Learning

These issues will be discussed in great detail in the upcoming free and online course “Making Blended Education Work” starting May 11th… In the recent New Media Consortium horizon report (Alexander et al., 2019), experts suggest that blended learning design has yet to scale and remains a short-term trend (i.e.,

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Spotlight on ‘Practice Worth Sharing’ at the Moray House School of Education and Sport

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The PWS Working Group was formed in spring 2019 and aims to: Create a space to share teaching experiences of people working within and beyond Moray House School of Education and Sport; Collaboratively build and develop our collective teaching practice. Oct 23, 2019 For more details please see the QEA webpages.

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Existing self-service and custom developed WordPress blogs. A new student owned/operated externally-hosted Domain of One’s Own pilot offering (for academic year 2019/20). Computers & Education , 56 (2), 441–451. Retrieved 3 March 2019, from [link] Hemmi, A., Studies in Higher Education , 39 (2), 219–232.

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

As we move into 2019, it is valuable to reflect on how, within our varied work, we can embrace partnerships such as co-creation of the curriculum to create opportunities for students to share their expertise, experience, and insights with us to improve learning and teaching. Higher Education, 71 (2), 195-208. Jan 8, 2019

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

A huge thank you to all our contributors and readers, and here’s to celebrating more wonderful, supportive and inspiring teaching and learning practices in 2019… 10. Look out for a Student Wellbeing Teaching Matters mini-series in July and August 2019. Their results were rather conclusive… 2.