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Spotlight on Remote Teaching and Alternative Assessment Methods

Teaching Matters Online Learning

As Vice-Principal Students he has strategic responsibility for student experience and the development of innovative approaches to all aspects of student satisfaction and experience, including curriculum development, and the nurturing of a high-performance culture in teaching and learning. Mar 18, 2020

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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

Dr Catherine Bovill is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement, and Celeste McLaughlin is Head of Academic Development for Digital Education, and are both based at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD). During 2020, academics had gained digital confidence and developed new teaching practices.

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open access and open education both stress the importance of making knowledge available for individuals around the world, regardless of wealth or status ( Elder 2020 ). Feb 20, 2020 Open access (OA) can be seen as one string of the bow in the open education landscape.

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Explaining Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Access

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Feb 25, 2020 The vision is to use these three concepts, of the same substance, towards realising the full potential of scholarly research. Eugen Stoica Eugen Stoica works as a Scholarly Communications Officer specialised in Copyright. He is the service manager of the Library’s Copyright Advisory Team.

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What is mid-course feedback?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

It will be encouraged from September 2019 with a view to adding it to policy for 2020/21. Next Steps In response to the findings of the evaluation, the following next steps have been agreed by Senate Learning and Teaching Committee and Quality Assurance Committee : Mid-course feedback will be introduced for taught postgraduate courses.

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An ‘Edinburgh Model’ for Online Teaching Programme: Notes from a pilot run

Teaching Matters Online Learning

However, the course has been designed as an online experience and so we are planning to run the course fully online in early 2020, and then at intervals thereafter. This first pilot of the course was run face to face to allow the team to focus on specific areas and get rapid feedback from participants. References Moore, M.

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

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Social Justice: Exploring issues of diversity, sustainability and justice with the aim of empowering students and staff to engage critically and sensitively with the challenges of our contemporary world. The deadline for submission of bids is Friday 25 October. For more information, please email Gillian Macintosh at Academic Services.