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Enhancing the student learning experience via social media

Teaching Matters Online Learning

There are many types of platforms and social media tools with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube being some of the most widely used across all regions of the world. There are many types of platforms and social media tools with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube being some of the most widely used across all regions of the world.

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Podcast: Climate optimism or fatalism: Teaching climate change in today’s university (Part 1 and 2)

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Teaching Matters podcast credits: Guest host: Polly Wells (School of GeoSciences) Director and Editor: Jenny Scoles and Sarah Thomas (IAD) Advisor: Meg McGrath (Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability) Producers: University of Edinburgh’s Communication and Marketing Media team. Feb 20, 2019

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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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Building a teaching and learning community at the Centre for Open Learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Last term, colleagues signed up for training in Learn as well as Media Hopper Replay training, for lecture recording and, on 27th March, colleagues attended our first sharing good practice event, which focused on Peer Observation. We hope to roll it out from September 2019. Apr 18, 2019

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Supporting academic community at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Support

SRA used social media to create communities of students before arrival at the University. SRA also leads the University’s Social Media Community. Initially set up as a practitioner forum it has developed into a learning provider and brings together more than 100 colleagues from across the University. Apr 4, 2019

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Mini-series: What are our students saying about lecture recording?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Media Hopper Replay student helpers This, the final post in our lecture recording mini-series , is devoted to the views and thoughts of our students – the recipients of lecture recordings. At Edinburgh, our ambition is to offer an outstanding student experience to as diverse a group of students as possible.

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Podcast: What is the value of Lecture Recording?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Teaching Matters podcast credits: Guest host: Dr Jill Mackay ( R(D)SVS ) Director and Editor: Jenny Scoles and Sarah Thomas (Institute for Academic Development) Advisor: Lorraine Spalding (Learning, Teaching and Web, IS) Producer: University of Edinburgh’s Communication and Marketing Media team. May 29, 2019