Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What is research-led learning and teaching? Learning TO DO RESEARCH: Students learn how to develop specific or general skills as researchers – they are taught how to do their own research and undertake research themselves.

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The Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In our state, K–12 BIPOC students are increasing (37% of the population in 2021–2022; NDE, 2023a), but the shortage of BIPOC teachers is also growing, as White teachers constituted 95% of the workforce that same year (NDE, 2023b). Ethnic matching: Academic success of students of color. Intercultural Development Research Association.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Joshua Reda There are also students who don’t have stable or consistent homes who want a place to reside while pursuing their education. The pandemic has increased awareness of housing insecurity, and she says research shows that students cannot focus on their education if they don’t have reliable housing.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Stephanie Wasmanski , Wilkes University Keywords : Student Choice, Student Autonomy, Self-Determination Theory Key Statement: Supporting students’ basic psychological needs of autonomy and competence through self-selected activities and positive feedback may enhance student engagement and motivation.

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Campus Groups

AUGUST 2, 2022

We know how critical the fall is for student engagement. It is when new students immerse themselves in college life and returning students renew with campus activities and traditions. This article outlines 5 student engagement strategies for the fall.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Research-led teaching and learning This month, I have found defining research-led teaching and learning quite tricky as there seem to be a few interpretations of what it means in HE. Conversely, integrating research and teaching can be immensely rewarding for academics.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He discusses how the integration of these AI-driven tools into his coursework not only enhances the efficiency of learning complex programming concepts but also redefines the pedagogical strategies aimed at fostering deeper student engagement and understanding.

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SRHE

AUGUST 20, 2024

by Naomi Winstone and David Carless Over the past few years, feedback research and practice in higher education have experienced sustained research interest and significant advancements. In 2019, we published a book in the SRHE series titled Designing Effective Feedback Processes in Higher Education: A Learning-Focused Approach.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

According to Schaufeli (2013), engagement refers to involvement, focused effort, dedication, and absorption. Effectively creating an engaging online course requires planning, creativity, and ongoing interactions. A main component of successful teaching and learning is student engagement (Khan et al., achievement.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The college places a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary learning, allowing students to engage in cross-disciplinary courses and independent research. The Epic Advantage Program provides students with up to $5,000 in funding for hands-on learning experiences, such as internships, field studies, and international travel.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I gave a lecture in the Textile Museum on my design practice, which is described as Making Modern Day Family Heirlooms , and my research, which for the past 20 years has been focussed on how to be a commercial sustainable textile designer. Nov 12, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In this post, Dr Geoff Bromiley, a Reader in Experimental Geoscience within the School of GeoSciences, describes an inspiring experience of teaching-led research… Research-led teaching is something we often hear about at university. We rightly flag this as a great reason why students should study at The University of Edinburgh.

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University Business

JULY 17, 2023

Specifically, the upward social mobility rate for students moving from the bottom two income quintiles to the top two is 10% higher at HBCUs than in non-minority serving institutions.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

percent since 2019, before the pandemic began. We’re on track to grow our student body from just under 35,000 to 40,000 over the next five years, and we have plans to build 5,000 additional student housing units in the same time frame, transforming what traditionally had been a commuter campus into a campus village.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Students also had a PDF of the lecture on the learning management system to support the text accessibility online in case they wanted to print it and make notes. Social engagement is crucial for effective active learning and has proven to be on the forefront of successful active learning. References Ambrose, S. Bridges, M. Dipietro, M.,

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Engström, A. & & Schnaas, U.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

I was soon to take on the role of Postgraduate Advisor for the Social Work PhD programme, which included organising a course for new Postgraduate Research students. It occurred to me that a board game jam could be a great way to induct new students, so I decided to run one during the first session of the course. Feb 19, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 23, 2020

the University of Colorado Boulder’s work on upper division teaching [7]), there remain many open questions about how students can effectively engage with very advanced, complex material during lecture-style classes without becoming overwhelmed. A clean slate, [link] (date accessed 4 October 2019) [6] Meltzer, D. 5] Galloway, R.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

180) have created a “ladder of student participation in curriculum design” that shows how student engagement in the curriculum can range from no engagement within a dictated, staff-controlled curriculum to significant levels of student engagement with student control of the curriculum (see below).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

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. Some of our early research proved really fruitful.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Engström, A. & & Schnaas, U.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

Cronon, 2012) At The University of Edinburgh, we have quickly generated real examples of technology-enhanced learning activities appropriate to the curriculum and transformed our students, staff and members of the public from being passive readers and consumers to being active, engaged contributors.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

With this in mind, we planned to employ a PhD student to carry out the project and were pleased to be able to recruit Candela Sanchez, a current PhD student in the School of Health in Social Science , who demonstrated a keen interest and enthusiasm for the topic of RDM.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We interviewed 12 students studying online for the MSc in International Development about their experiences of a range of different types of recorded media, including lecture capture, purpose-made video lectures, and specially-recorded short videos (like Q&As, ‘shorts’ from development practitioners and reports from the field).

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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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In this issue, we will be publishing examples of when a teaching innovation or change in practice has been introduced, piloted, or researched, and it hasn’t turned out as expected. Why it’s time to publish research “failures”. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MAY 21, 2020

You are looking for safe opportunities for students to try out the thinking and working practices used by experts in your area and to figure out what practices make sense for them in that context (Fawns and O’Shea, 2019). Could your students contribute to Wikipedia together. Using assessed blogs to enhance student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Professor Peter Felten delivering his keynote talk, ‘Relationships Matter’, at the Learning & Teaching Conference 2019, The University of Edinburgh (John McIntyre Conference Centre). In our interviews, we asked about the ways that relationships – student-student and student-staff – shaped the undergraduate experience.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 31, 2024

However, there is limited evidence of effective peer support approaches for PGT students, and PGT students have been described as the ‘overlooked cohort’ (Coneyworth, et al., To accommodate this, we rescheduled our events to better align with the students’ academic calendars. References Coneyworth, L., Maden, P., & White, G.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 21, 2019

On 16 th January 2019, a headline in The Scotsman newspaper warned that care homes in Scotland are struggling to recruit staff. Student engagement through partnership in higher education. Julie Watson Dr. Julie Watson is a Research Fellow/Lecturer in Nursing Studies in the School of Health in Social Science.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Combining insights from her own investigations of posthuman materialities with critical contributions by Braidotti (2019), Barad (2007), Delanda (2006) and Bennett (2010), Carol moved to trouble normalised and common sense ideas about knowledge-making and space.

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Higher Ed Connects: Ethics

APRIL 6, 2021

While we can certainly improve our ability to deter students from engaging in cheating behaviors , there is also value in investing time, energy, and resources into developing the capacity to detect instances of contract cheating. . Ellis said that her team noticed a big gap, however, on research into detection.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, markmags, CC0 Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters, which showcases findings from recent projects that research learning and teaching practices at the University of Edinburgh. Rather, it is a way for them to make sense of their own teaching and their students’ learning, drawing on the principles of research.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is a unique opportunity for researchers to bring controversial, contentious, and dangerous ideas to the Edinburgh Fringe , and for members of the public to engage with world class academics from all over the country outside of their ivory towers. Dr Cathy Bovill who focusses on student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Professor Carol Evans gave a thought-provoking presentation about ‘Scaling up Research-informed Integrated Assessment Practices’. I would add to this that course and programme designs that have worked well with one cohort of students might well need to be adapted for the particular diversity of the next cohort. Nov 7, 2019

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