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Wellbeing matters. But how can we enhance wellbeing across the academic community?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Dennis is a PhD student and Managing Director of Psychreg. This post is part of the Hot Topic: Learning & Teaching Conference 2022. There is growing recognition that mental and physical wellbeing is of ever-increasing importance and concern to students in higher education. Aug 1, 2022

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An Ode to Academia in the post-pandemic era: Ableism, (un)Seen (dis)Abilities & access-ability of Online Teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Avita Rath is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School and she shares her experience teaching dentistry at a dental school in Malaysia. Somehow, hidden disabilities have become an exclusive ‘student issue’ ( Saltes, 2022 ). So, what do we do about it?!

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How to grow Peer Support, community and belonging for online students?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In evaluation and monitoring survey data, the student voice clearly communicates a desire to get to know other students on their programme, and academics teaching the subject. For online students, there are some interesting patterns in student engagement that map onto in-person. This provides the why.

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Top ten Teaching Matters posts of 2021

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The Teaching Matters team wishes our readers a very happy New Year 2022! “Key takeaways from mental health training” (October 2020): [link] Teaching fellow, Omar Kaissi, reflects on the value of completing a mental health training session organised jointly by the University’s Student Counselling and Student Disability services.