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. The School has also shared information on the methodology and outcomes of the project across the University.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

With the reduced flexibility and time in current postgraduate training programmes this is vital to help students make an appropriate and informed choice for traineeship. Offering choice presents a series of challenges and opportunities to the curriculum developer.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

They discuss the surprises that often come from deeply engaging with students’ ideas, share how they’ve taken Change Agents’ suggestions forward post-programme, and reflect on how their experiences as Challenge Hosts can inform their own work with students in the future. His role also includes oversight of department operations.

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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 Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This post is part of the Hot Topic ‘ Revisiting the Hybrid Teaching Exchange ‘ The Learning Design Service is part of Educational Design and Engagement in Information Services. Jon Jack Jon is a Learning Technology Team Manager in the Educational Design and Engagement team (Learning, Teaching & Web, Information Services).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Arguably, designing and delivering considered, pedagogically-informed courses and programmes, which lead to successful student outcomes, is at the core of our university learning and teaching efforts. Effective design helps us teach in a sustainable way, which is not just left to chance.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

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.

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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. Nevertheless, I will always recall where I truly learnt its value.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 25, 2017

Starring Diploma staff, tutors and some former students and ably directed, filmed and edited by Neil Davidson and Dominic Suominem from Law School Information Services (IS), the video is a 15 minute “romp” through a Diploma workshop of the worst kind! (We Please contact me ( Emma.Greville-Williams@ed.ac.uk ) for more information.

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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 Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This showed students’ common logical flaws and biases, how to construct effective arguments from premises and conclusions, and gave advice on effectively sourcing information. Emphasis on ‘quality of argument, strength of evidence and clarity of presentation’ were the core tenants of lectures for about a third of the course.

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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. Nevertheless, I will always recall where I truly learnt its value.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

More information can be found on the SLICCs website. SLICCs are currently being used to reward extra-curricular projects and experiences over the summer with academic credit. These may be within and beyond their own disciplines with the potential for both inter- and multi-disciplinary foci.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

SUMMARY Students and stakeholders have been very positive about this arrangement and the approach is widely applicable for student learning. There is a lot going on within the City of Edinburgh and this is a great resource for the university and our students to tap into.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Members of the academic team provided support through frequent informal discussion. Each group to identify their own skills and expertise, in research, in drawing, multimedia, writing etc. and then: Allocate tasks Agree key points during the workshop: when you meet, agree and consolidate ideas Allow time to prepare presentations.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

After class, we headed to a nearby café for an informal lunch and further debate. The informal conversations, such as those over lunch, proved important. General discussion ensued. So, the course took something of the form of a research seminar, although as we note below, it was not exactly the same.

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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. I met with every constituency group, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, donors, and community leaders. They want to know your story.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Generating lists such as these helps show what information Wikidata and Wikipedia currently possess and, by extension, what they are missing. Not least in terms of developing students’ digital research skills and their ability to evaluate sources with a critical information literacy. Don’t believe me?

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This may involve lectures, active learning activities, or group work to disseminate information and student learning. Formative assessment through student self-reflection can provide instructors with invaluable information about students' understanding and performance (Benson, 2023). link] Wiggins, G.P. , & McTighe, J.

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