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Go Abroad Staff: Building academic communities abroad

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Professional development: I’d heard from colleagues that Utrecht would be a welcoming institution. There are so many benefits from participating in a Go Abroad Staff experience – for personal & professional development as well as for your team and the wider University. Apr 9, 2019 Can I afford to go?

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Spotlight on ELIR: Draft of Chapter 3 (Reflective Analysis)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The deadline for comments on Chapter 3 is Monday 23 December 2019. We will consider all the comments received and use them to develop the chapter. Dec 2, 2019 Do you have any examples of good practice that could be included in the chapter? Is there anything missing from the chapter? WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

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

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

However, while there is a great range of quality teaching practices within subject areas and programmes, and there are some excellent examples of embedding professional development for teaching within these, COL – the result of several mergers – has lacked a sense of shared, ‘whole school’ identity. Apr 18, 2019

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Mini-series: Blogging – What is it good for?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Blogging is also at the heart of the Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA), one of the professional development pathways to Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Blogging to enhance your professional practice is also the topic of Episode 5 of the Teaching Matters podcast (released later today). Apr 24, 2019

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Two reasons from a teaching perspective are that using OA resources is of benefit to students for their current studies and future engagement with academic research and theory for professional development. Open access publishing is a key way for professionals to engage with valuable research and theory.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

For example, students’ and staff members’ increased enjoyment of learning and teaching alongside their professional development are particularly notable (Bovill & Bulley, 2011; Lubicz-Nawrocka, 2018; Lubicz-Nawrocka & Simoni, 2018; Matthews, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al., Jan 8, 2019

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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and PTAS

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Ideas about professional development for university teachers have also moved on. While teacher development often takes place through formal programmes or workshops, there are also powerful opportunities for development through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Mar 4, 2019 Happy reading!