Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Students were also introduced to reflective learning models, as tools for their regular reflective blogs. These blogs form part of their assessed portfolio where they evidence what they have learned and demonstrate how they have met the self-designed learning outcomes for the course using the SLICC framework.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

He is the Coordinator of the UNICA Green and Sustainable Development Goals Working Group and an alumni of the EAUC Leadership Academy Programme.  Matthew has worked for the University since 2011 in various sustainability roles in Estates and Transition Edinburgh University.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Students keep a blog (≥10 weeks) and write a reflective report of their experiences. The blogs give enlightening insights into the attachments as they unfold and develop. The blogs are an effective way of recording and reflecting on the challenges, insights and innovations students encounter.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Moreover, the reflective blog process only deepened what I gained from the novel experience. I hope that it’ll make me an asset in any institutional environment, encouraging me to innovate internally and externally as I imagine that the University expects of its alumni. Nevertheless, I will always recall where I truly learnt its value.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

Image credit: Pixabay, CC0 In this blog post, three SACHA alumni (Foster Osei, Mtevee Amugune, and Nisha Daniel), who participated in the SACHA programme as online distance learners, discuss the impact of experiential learning on the distance learner experience and share lessons that can be translated to other areas of the curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

The student then undertakes their project, frequently reflecting on their learning in a regular blog, together with collecting evidence of that learning in their e-portfolio. The SLICCs initiative provides a flexible, reflective, framework which represents an opportunity to enable interdisciplinary learning and teaching.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

Each encounter of this spiral curriculum is assessed through reflective documentation often using diaries, blogs, films and pecha-kucha style presentations. As each student progresses through the role of Design Agency intern, junior, senior, and director, their level of responsibility and workload increases.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Moreover, the reflective blog process only deepened what I gained from the novel experience. I hope that it’ll make me an asset in any institutional environment, encouraging me to innovate internally and externally as I imagine that the University expects of its alumni. Nevertheless, I will always recall where I truly learnt its value.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

Students wrote blog posts summarising the papers for a wider audience, some of which were then published on the Just World Institute website (see here , here and here ). So, the course took something of the form of a research seminar, although as we note below, it was not exactly the same. The course employed innovative forms of assessment.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Perhaps the best is that our graduates are highly regarded and sought after by employers, and the continued successes of our alumni. All this is set within the context of students exploring a topic or activity of their own choosing, interest and passion.

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