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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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Flipped Classrooms: A Next Generation Nursing Case Study

The Scholarly Teacher

2019) defined flipped classrooms as increasing regular student engagement in course material with marginal involvement from the instructor. In a flipped classroom model, students are expected to take the lead in their learning during pre-class, in-class, and post-class work (Al-Samarraie et al., during the in-class phase.

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A quick look at the global rise of for-credit micro-credentials

University Business

Colleges and universities across the world are leveraging the credentials to fuel student engagement, brand differentiation and workforce development opportunities for learners of all ages, according to a new report from Coursera.

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Empowering Your Students’ Agency Through Ungrading Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Freedom to Grow We hope that using ungraded evaluation structures in a classroom might influence students’ sense of their own agency for learning, thereby deepening studentsengagement, sense of mastery, and autonomy. Ungrading: Why rating students undermines learning (and what to do instead), 91-104. Klemenčič, M.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’ Jan 17, 2019

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SPS Outreach Network for Access/Adult Returner Students

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Reflecting back on the SPS Outreach Network for Access/Adult Returner Students project, it is important to consider lessons learnt ahead of the next academic year. Student engagement with the project was a lot higher at the start of semester 1, with very low dips during assessment periods.

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Coding Club: Building confidence using peer-to-peer teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The Coding Club initiative is trying to instill confidence in student learners at the University of Edinburgh so that they can become the teachers of tomorrow. Our mission is to create a fun and supportive environment where we develop programming and statistics skills together. Sep 26, 2019