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The Path to 2030: An extended learning opportunity at The University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Amanda Meyer, based in the Global Health Academy, shares an inspiring example of extended learning with MSc Global Challenges alumni. In 2021, a group of MSc Global Challenges alumni found themselves in exactly this position. With any project such as this there were, of course, challenges.

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Welcome to the February issue of Teaching Matters: Course and programme design

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Is it just academic staff, or should we be inviting professional bodies, employers, alumni, and current students to co-design courses and programmes? And in her post, Nichola Kett, from Academic Services, showcases the updated documentation for course and programme approval.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Some of our most engaged recent alumni are former participants in the Award, and contribute to group input sessions as part of the Award, as well as other student experience initiatives within the school. One of our newly appointed academics, and now a Senior Teaching Fellow in Marketing, Dr Pauline Ferguson, took on this work in 2017.

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Design Agency: 100% Employable

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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.