Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2019

”, and highlight an important opportunity to present at the Enhancement Themes Conference in June 2020… Staff across the University use a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative data to enhance the student experience, from national survey results to mid-course feedback and discussions with student representatives.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A TNA is a person-centred, reflective activity in form of a self-assessment, described by scholars as a key ‘pedagogical tool designed to assess doctoral researchers’ strengths as well as weaknesses’ (Elliot et al 2020, 149). Bengtsen, Kay Guccione, and Sofie Kobayashi (2020), The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education (Palgrave Macmillan).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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 literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 9, 2020

Looking at the literature, it became apparent that there were examples of team work amongst teaching staff in the sciences but very little in the humanities. Mar 9, 2020 In a recent Practice Worth Sharing meeting, we considered the need and place for team work on our courses and programmes. Who is it for? Why do we do it?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill. If interested, please contact Michael Gallagher for more information. References Moore, M.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2019

It will be encouraged from September 2019 with a view to adding it to policy for 2020/21. Advice and resources (including examples) to help staff collect mid-course feedback from students can be found on the Institute for Academic Development’s website. Mid-course feedback only needs to be gathered once per course.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2024

All tutors need an annual review, but the review of a large number of tutors would far exceed time we can take from academic staff. I’m extremely grateful to the Institute for Academic Development for their support for the School of Mathematics local EdTA scheme. The induction The unknown is scary, or it can be.

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MARCH 18, 2020

In this special Spotlight series on Remote Teaching , Velda McCune, Deputy Director of the Institute for Academic Development and Head of the Learning and Teaching Team, shares tips and resources for an effective move into online teaching… Not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking more than usual about teaching online. Mar 18, 2020

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

If you’re considering integrating a podcast element into your syllabus, Emily and Andrew suggest that it is well-worth taking the time to reflect on what exactly you’re hoping the podcast will achieve. Is it a supplementary podcast – one that supports particular weeks of the syllabus in some unique way?

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JANUARY 24, 2023

If you’re considering integrating a podcast element into your syllabus, Emily and Andrew suggest that it is well-worth taking the time to reflect on what exactly you’re hoping the podcast will achieve. Is it a supplementary podcast – one that supports particular weeks of the syllabus in some unique way?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Image credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich, pexels, CC0 In this post, Anna Wood at the School of Mathematics introduces the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures, a classroom observation tool she co-developed to support reflections on teaching. In 2020 we conducted a pilot study (Wood et al., What form did it take?

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APRIL 27, 2020

Here we summarise a recent study that we undertook into the relationships that can develop during online postgraduate dissertation supervision. Apr 27, 2020 Students brought their professional expertise and insights and the supervisors provided conceptual frameworks.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 4, 2020

Some students may wish to spend more time with the staff and students on their programmes just now, other students may have to attend to different priorities! A third theme was about ‘sharing and learning from other staff’ (the raison d’être of PWS!). May 4, 2020

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The group will continue to meet through to 2020 to drive these activities for the benefit of all. In addition, the group is responsible for monitoring the research work funded by the Lecture Recording Programme as part of PTAS. The team will evaluate the benefits of providing the facility and measure uptake. or Cinzia.Pusceddu@ed.ac.uk

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

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. The deadline for submission of bids is Friday 25 October. For more information, please email Gillian Macintosh at Academic Services.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

EMBED, CC0 Efficiency vs. staff workload and pedagogical benefits It is also noted that in blended learning scenarios, students can make a better use of classroom time for deep learning through collaborative work and face-to-face interactions with the instructor. Apr 21, 2020 This issue can be especially pronounced in rural areas.

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APRIL 15, 2020

it’s just an executable that goes on Teaching Office staff computers, preparing and processing the PDFs at each of the points in the process you were going to be running anyway. Sure, sometimes we worry about adding up the score wrong because it makes a permanent record for all to see that we are, in fact, humans, and not machines.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

She has been with The University of Edinburgh since 2016 becoming a FHEA in 2020. As their research results attest, this interactivity and connectivity – even a sense of camaraderie – promised by podcasting is what makes the form so compelling to students. That’s not true. Transcript of the episode is available here.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

She has been with The University of Edinburgh since 2016 becoming a FHEA in 2020. As their research results attest, this interactivity and connectivity – even a sense of camaraderie – promised by podcasting is what makes the form so compelling to students. That’s not true. Transcript of the episode is available here.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There will also be an exhibition of sustainable student projects in April 2020. Workshop: ‘Personalised Mending’ For the workshop, I had bought along excess Ayrshire wool blanket material from my studio, embroidery hoops, large darning needles and templates. She studied Textiles at The Glasgow School of Art and St Martins London.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

Integrating and embedding the SDGs more formally into university curricula will build on the existing knowledge base that many students leave school with, and allow them to develop this further, applying it to their degree programmes in novel and innovative ways. This, in turn, will hopefully inform subsequent developments in the curricula.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill. If interested, please contact Michael Gallagher for more information. References Moore, M.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

It is surprising, then, that one easily spotted deviation from the framework, not commented upon by the panels (despite a footnote on intent in the ‘Summary Report across the four main panels’) was on that requirement that ‘all staff with a significant responsibility for research’ should be submitted. Procedural propriety.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 6, 2020

For our first post in 2020, we are celebrating the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2019. Happy New Year from Teaching Matters! Approaches to Equality and Diversity in Higher Education Teaching (12th December 2016; 1024 views; ranked No. In a good way.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Feb 25, 2020 While such a licence is incredibly helpful, it has its limits. In addition to the CLA licence, it is possible for teachers to use literature that was published Open Access, under a Creative Commons licence or that is out of copyright. Eugen Stoica Eugen Stoica works as a Scholarly Communications Officer specialised in Copyright.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

And when I think about what Black youth deal with, I believe that the experiences that some Black youth go through affect our mental health in ways other groups just don’t have to deal with.” - Eliot, 7th grade student In 2020, the Congressional Black Caucus released Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme offers funding and encouragement for staff and students to “ explore new practice and innovations in teaching” This is a safe, supported space, which welcomes attempts at innovation, whatever the outcome may be. Happy reading…! References Goodchild van Hilten, L.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A TNA is a person-centred, reflective activity in form of a self-assessment, described by scholars as a key ‘pedagogical tool designed to assess doctoral researchers’ strengths as well as weaknesses’ (Elliot et al 2020, 149). Bengtsen, Kay Guccione, and Sofie Kobayashi (2020), The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education (Palgrave Macmillan).

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