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 is a useful way of thinking about student-staff partnerships – such a way of working can never be static.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It also covers how we approve and manage collaborative provision, secure academic standards, and enhance the student learning experience. This chapter covers how we manage our collaborative provision, which is where we work in partnership with other organisations to deliver courses and programmes. These can be emailed to ELIRsupport@ed.ac.uk.

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JULY 9, 2019

These sessions tend to be rated highly by students. He shared his experiences, tricky and enjoyable, gave advice, showed images and videos of real children in a real primary school and, afterwards, he was able to answer questions and engage in discussion with our students. I learnt alongside my current students. Jul 9, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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. This blog post is important to me for two reasons.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Workshops were run in Spring and Autumn 2019, and Candela delivered training to around 100 attendees. A repeated suggestion was to run subject-specific training, although this wasn’t possible within the time frame and scope of the project (which ran from January to December 2019).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It is a privilege, and it is fun, to teach clinical veterinary medicine to final year Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) students. It is a privilege, and it is fun, to teach clinical veterinary medicine to final year Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) students. “What is a crofter?”,

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 24, 2019

This means that in addition to carrying out research into how best to promote learner wellbeing, I help student teachers develop understanding of the components of positive mental health promotion, looking at theory and how it is enacted in a range of different school contexts. Jul 24, 2019 It is holistic and context driven.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

These are: Office, Lab, Student and the Student Residence awards. At the end of the Sustainability Awards, trained students have the opportunity to meet teams to review efforts made and give feedback on the team’s performance. Feb 6, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. Mar 5, 2019 It is cited as a reason for choosing the University of Edinburgh Business School.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 18, 2020

A REMINDER ELIR is an external review of the quality of the student learning experience that we provide. It is important because it provides an opportunity for us to reflect on our approach to learning and teaching and the student learning experience. We welcome comments from students and staff on the draft RA.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

How could we replicate the success of this Edinburgh Award with our far larger Undergraduate student population without diluting the quality? Answer: Get our students involved in its design and delivery. These are delivered by a newly formed and hugely dedicated branch of PALS, our DevPALS, led by third year student, Sophie Mitchinson.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. This aligned with our work harnessing co- and extra-curricular learning to support students’ development and impact.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 21, 2019

The experience helps to increase students’ aspirations, as many who take part have not considered these areas of work open to them, and enables them to access a network that could support them in the future. It supported students to build confidence in their skills and future careers. May 21, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 2, 2019

Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. Jul 2, 2019 But, to this day, I also remember the excitement of finding a pig’s tooth buried in the archaeology site we were allowed to ‘excavate’ It bought the learning in the classroom to life.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It was established to create a support system for the students of the MSc Performance Psychology , in Moray House School of Education and Sport. We have a pool of trained alumni who are available both in Edinburgh and abroad, who can help to support students. Dec 11, 2019 This is where our mentoring program comes in.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The lecturer can then encourage students to use these reflections to guide their actions, e.g., study the challenging topic in depth, explore materials around the exciting idea, or find a way to answer their question. This forces students to contextualise their learning more broadly. Feb 26, 2019 Why was that?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

Objectives for students in semester 2 include: Understanding the canal at a city scale; how it makes its presence felt in the city, its ecological potential, how it works as a traffic route and its potential for tourism, interpretation, business, community and home. Jan 9, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 9, 2019

It is in these two years, principally the last, where the students feel the pressure, and this can be extremely daunting. Access to the Professions (ATTP) subverts these expectations by providing its support and services to students at an earlier, yet crucial, stage in the journey to achieving a career in law, medicine or veterinary medicine.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

Jan 22, 2019 Through the internship, my fellow interns and I got a chance to get out of our comfort zones and explore learning and teaching from a more integrated perspective.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 16, 2019

Our online students come from more than 140 countries, and the majority are studying part-time while they work, with the aim of progressing their career and increasing their knowledge in their chosen specialist subject. Many students are new to online learning when they first start studying with us. Apr 16, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 25, 2019

We had some pretty famous professors there, and the idea that they could do top research AND share it with us students was particularly attractive. The students we teach in Earth Sciences and Physical Geography today will build infrastructure, look for resources, solve environmental problems and potentially govern us in the future.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 7, 2019

Working with so many fantastic students over the years has compounded my view that widening participation is not just ‘a nice thing to do’; rather, it is essential to unlock and nurture potential, and to create a wider benefit for the individuals, their families/communities, and for the universities that they attend.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 16, 2019

For eight years in a row, around 80 per cent of students have told NUS that they want their institutions to be doing more on sustainability, and around 60 per cent of students want to learn more about it. Above all, we have been struck by the passion and the high level of importance students attach to sustainability issues.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

We invite interested academics, students and operational/professional services staff to get in touch if you are interested in working on Living Lab projects, or would like to share project ideas. Students are also encouraged to view our current placement and volunteering opportunities. Feb 13, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 27, 2019

Getting in contact with staff members, from employment managers to directors, heightened the blog’s visibility, and showcased an insider-take on the variety of internships offered by ISG. She is a fourth year student studying History of Art and English Literature. Mar 27, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 3, 2024

Students as Change Agents (SACHA) is a student-led design thinking programme that partners diverse student groups with host organisations to tackle challenges aligned to the University’s research themes and that address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 28, 2019

However, it wasn’t just the students who benefited from the project; content owners were universally positive about the work delivered by students: I really value the time and the effort of the subtitling pilot team with regard to this – the service has been a huge help to me. Jun 28, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 18, 2019

How could we ensure a supportive community for our students and staff? The School of Health in Social Science is a small but growing community, with around 100 core staff and 900 students. Whilst students often feel a connection with their programme, cross-School community has had less opportunity to develop naturally.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

Moreover, several our students take work-based dissertation options for their Master’s thesis or volunteer to work in NGO or on other non-profit causes. Jan 15, 2019 This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al.,

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We are using the Student-Led, Individually-Created Course (SLICC) reflective e-portfolio for experiential learning as the learning and assessment framework, which is a piloted and supported initiative. Feb 21, 2019 Half-time: How has it been going so far?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At 30% of these institutions, students recoup their educational costs within five years or less. In addition to the PEP, Michael developed the Economic Mobility Index (EMI) , with and for thirdway.org , to examine the top schools serving low-income students across the U.S. to gauge how they are doing. I like it.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

With enrollment numbers dropping and student demographics evolving, corporate partnerships offer an opportunity to align academic programs with workforce needs , creating a win-win-win scenario for students, employers, and universities. We were founded in 2019. Drumm McNaughton: Ronni’s a neat person.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 11, 2019

I approached my good friend Elliott, a final year undergraduate student doing a joint honors in philosophy and economics. This seems to me a common theme amongst most philosophical disciplines. I know that everyone can benefit in some way from a basic knowledge of philosophical issues and why they are important. How has it worked so well?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2019

Photo credit: thebostonpilot.com, CC0 In this post, Dr Sergei Plekhanov, a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Economics, highlights a sponsored dissertation scheme, which connects undergraduate economic students with organisations who need real-life problems researched… Do you remember you first big piece of individual work?

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