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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. 2019; Salam et al.,

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4 Online Teaching Strategies To Promote Collaboration and Community

The Scholarly Teacher

Farrell and Brunton (2020) uncovered themes essential to online student engagement. They found that the peer community created through online forums, social interactions, and collaborative activities were significant factors in students feeling supported and encouraged, leading to their overall course and content engagement.

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Visual Journaling

The Scholarly Teacher

Visual Journals are a derivative of an artist’s sketchbook; however, the difference is in the intention or purpose and process (Dalton, 2023; Strickland, 2019). Within an educational context, Visual Journals are a primary tool that can be adapted and used with students of all ages, in any discipline or content area and domain for learning.

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Alex Hadba, CC0 In this post, Lauren Smith, Digital Support Librarian, outlines why open access resources are important in teaching, how lecturers can incorporate open access resources into their teaching materials, and how Library and University Collections can support them… What is open access? Feb 20, 2020

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UncoverEd: Interrogating Edinburgh’s imperial history as a global university

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

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.

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Student positivity and creativity as a source of hope

Teaching Matters Online Learning

I’m starting semester 1 hopeful, thanks to reading and listening to what students are saying, and seeing the stunning artwork created by students for this month’s Teaching Matters blogs. In 2019-2020 she was a Fulbright Scholar based in the USA. Oct 1, 2020

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Mini-series: Blogging about Diverse Collections

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Mar 20, 2019 To me, the archives were a place where precious and valuable materials were kept, locked away in boxes to only ever be opened by ‘serious’ academics. She presents her work at a number of events across campus and regularly updates her blog, Diverse Collections.