Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

In this blog post, Pooja and Ankita, SACHA alumni discuss co-creation and collaboration in course design. Co-creating the curriculum allows students to have a voice, increasing their interest in the education material. The students in my group were committed and motivated, developing innovative ideas and high-quality outputs.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

However, I would consider several good examples from the Teaching Matters blog to be co-created, such as the Conservation Science course , Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World course, many examples of experiential education and place-based education , and creative learning and teaching with Lego. Bovill, C., & Felten, P.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 31, 2022

Original illustration by Ying Sun, Edinburgh College of Art alumni In this post, Nichola Kett provides an update on how the University is engaging in the latest Enhancement Theme: Resilient learning communities. Nichola is Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Curricula do not fall on to the page fully formed, but are built around a series of choices made by educators. – Jester, 2018, p.606. Furthermore, the design process should asks questions of us about what knowledge, and ways of knowing, are valued in a particular curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Offering choice presents a series of challenges and opportunities to the curriculum developer. These SSCs comprise 20% of the whole 5 year timetable, and it amounts to more choice than most other Medical Schools, and more than the roughly 10% prescribed by the GMC.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

She is a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen, External Examiner at the University of Hong Kong and Editorial Board member for the journal, Higher Education. His role also includes oversight of department operations.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Credit: pixabay, StockSnap, CC0 In this post, Jon Jack and Tracey Madden, from the Learning Design Service within Educational Design and Engagement, reflect on their team’s use of student personae in ELDeR workshops when designing and redesigning courses and programmes. designing induction events for undergraduates).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Credit: Ali Kremen Yücel Collaboration is also key amongst the students and, as the cohort continues to grow, the network for the students will also develop into what we hope to be a strong professional alumni network. We look forward to following the success of the students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In my current veterinary medicine degree, I don’t have choices in my coursework, and no general education core courses, but my degree is setting me up for a specific career. While at the Dick Vet, Vikky has enjoyed spending time with the university’s archery club and doing activities for the education certificate.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We have over 23 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Turing Award winners, 1 Abel Prize winner, 1 Fields Medal winner, 2 Pulitzer Prize winners, 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, 2 currently-sitting UK Supreme Court Justices, and many Olympic gold medallists in our alumni. We all work here together to discover, develop and share knowledge.

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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 26, 2019

Therefore the development of a digital walking tour app made a lot of sense: we could present our stories to everyone interested: students, staff, alumni, citizens and tourist alike. Andrews), Matjaz Vidmar, Kate Bowell and many others, we have been able to develop the digital project to what it is now.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

We also work with student societies (Law & Technology, History, Translation, Women in STEM, Wellcomm Kings), and have held events for Ada Lovelace Day, LGBT History Month, Black History Month, and celebrated Edinburgh’s Global Alumni; working with the UncoverEd project , and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 15, 2022

In redesigning the Engineering curriculum, we decided to take a whole, new approach to engineering education, starting from the very beginning: year 1. Our aim is for students to be ‘affected’ by their education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. I don’t foresee that the usefulness of reflection as a critical skill will diminish once I graduate.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In my current veterinary medicine degree, I don’t have choices in my coursework, and no general education core courses, but my degree is setting me up for a specific career. While at the Dick Vet, Vikky has enjoyed spending time with the university’s archery club and doing activities for the education certificate.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

Jordan John Flynn Shirley Gray Dr. Shirley Gray is a Lecturer in Physical Education and the Leader of the Physical Education Research Forum. May 26, 2016

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Delivering the Graduate Attributes “Each student at the University of Edinburgh joins us from different educational backgrounds, cultures and experiences. What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Failure is instructive.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

She is the link Careers Consultant for the Moray House School of Education ( Suzanne.Agnew@ed.ac.uk ) Nov 30, 2017 dave.saunders@ed.ac.uk ) Suzanne Agnew Suzanne works at the University of Edinburgh Careers Service.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. I don’t foresee that the usefulness of reflection as a critical skill will diminish once I graduate.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Furthermore, we hope they will gain a near-peer role model with our student, who is currently in higher education. There is support from the Education Department in Edinburgh City Council, who support the orientation workshops for our students. Photo credit: Annette Götzkes. For this initiative to work, effective partnerships are key.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

His main teaching interest is in experiential learning at the research-teaching nexus, which he is currently exploring in a secondment to the Institute for Academic Development. Simon is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He found the process of reflecting on his teaching when applying for this really insightful.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These lessons could be some of your most important university lectures if this aspect of academia was not emphasised in a student’s previous education. This showed students’ common logical flaws and biases, how to construct effective arguments from premises and conclusions, and gave advice on effectively sourcing information.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

Next steps For more ideas on curriculum design, see these Teaching Matters articles: Developing Reflection in the Curriculum History for the future: Update on the new pre-honours curriculum in History Diversifying the medical curriculum using open educational resources Fair’s Fair: embedding equality and diversity into the curriculum Sabrina Valeria (..)

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

CC0 It all started with a speculative email from Sargent Scott Casey of the Central Edinburgh Community Policing Team who wrote to Edinburgh College of Art seeking help to deal with anti-social behaviour issues in Hunter Square.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2023

The group always focuses on creating new curves for curriculum development, co-curricular, and experiential education to remain healthy and strong, thus avoiding plateauing and declining. Before becoming SEU’s president in 2011, Dr. Ingle held leadership positions in higher education and the nonprofit sector.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Indeed, for the educators who have decided to take the plunge, the post-assignment interviews all provide evidence that engaging with Wikipedia has a positive effect on their practice such that Wikipedia assignments are often the ones they find the most rewarding. Dr. Alexander Chow, Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

They proceeded to explain how they would carry on with this decade-old project regardless, even if it was dropped from the curriculum, such is the value they place on it. Since that time she has maintained her professional practice and developed her research in the field of education.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 87 (9), 12.

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