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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Staff new to online teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The paper is entitled “Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: Implications for academic staff development”, and you can find it in the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice. Mar 27, 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. and McLaughlin, C.

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As An RA, Why Is Development Important?

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In August of 2020, I sat down in my first master’s class where I was completely SHOCKED to learn that a bunch of scholars kind of knew exactly what I went through as a college student. One scholar spoke to how transitions were hard and challenging, which is why college students need support. College is. Continue Reading →

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Using data to enhance the student experience: Do you have good practice to share?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

”, and highlight an important opportunity to present at the Enhancement Themes Conference in June 2020Staff 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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Spotlight on Remote Teaching and Alternative Assessment Methods

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Mar 18, 2020 Before joining Edinburgh Colm was Vice-Provost (Academic Performance) and Professor of Economics, University of Sydney. Prior to this his academic career was at University College Dublin most latterly as Professor of Economics and Director of the Geary Institute.

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Spotlight on ELIR: Draft of Chapter 3 (Reflective Analysis)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo credit: unsplash, Kelly Sikkema, CC0 This is the fourth post in the ‘Spotlight on ELIR’ series, which will chart the Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR) that will be taking place in autumn 2020. A final version of the Reflective Analysis will then pass through University committees for approval in June 2020.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Why online dissertations can provide such profound and transformative learning

Teaching Matters Academic Support

2020), represents the productive space between the student-supervisor relationship being too distant or too close. 2020) Participatory alignment: a positive relationship between educators and students during online masters dissertation supervision. Apr 28, 2020 References Aitken G, Smith K, Fawns T, & Jones, D.

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