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Miranda McClellan ’18, MEng ’19 awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarship

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After graduating MIT, McClellan won a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Spain, where she studied applying machine learning to 5G networks. Since 2020, she has been working as a data scientist at Microsoft, building machine learning models to detect malware. policies on issues of cybersecurity, privacy, and AI fairness.

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Welcome to the October issue of Teaching Matters: Research-led teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The projects must involve both students and staff as participants, must be linked to at least one of the partnership agreement key themes and must be completed by 1 July 2020. As Professor Elizabeth Bomberg wrote in a previous Teaching Matters post : Research-active teachers can ensure course content includes the latest developments in field.

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Learning together in a global pandemic: Practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Prioritising equality, diversity and inclusion activities through the Enhancement Themes

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The current Enhancement Theme is resilient learning communities (2020-23), which focuses on meeting the changing needs and values of an increasingly diverse student community in a rapidly changing external environment. We contributed information to the desk-based research part of this study.

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What even is a University anyway?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

They progress to big picture thinking, drawing attention to the importance of a number of areas prominent in the wider Higher Education zeitgeist: student-owned spaces; citizenship; interdisciplinary research; forum; catalyst; community; and collaborative learning.

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Non-Traditional Learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Liz Lovejoy Liz is the Registrar for CAHSS, a role she took up on the 1st June 2020. Liz joined The University of Edinburgh in 2007 and before joining worked in the commercial biotechnology sector where she was the Director of Research for a US biotechnology company. Mar 27, 2023

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Wikipedia as Learning Technology: Teaching knowledge activism vs passive consumption

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Many of these warnings have fallen on deaf ears as most students I know acknowledge that they use Wikipedia in some way in their research or learning. We will contribute not only our research to Wikipedia but do research with and about Wikipedia. Aug 24, 2020 A study by Selwyn found that 87.5%