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. Participants discuss what they hear and learn, the context, clarification, alignment process, and what’s next. Kent, welcome to the program.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

The Edinburgh Medical School uses Student Selected Components ( SSCs ) as part of the medicine timetable to deliver a range of learning outcomes which mainly relate to developing research skills, and professional development including teamwork and teaching skills. Nevertheless, the broad philosophy underlying the mantra remains strong.

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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 Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

There are many different projects with students and staff co-creating the curriculum at universities around the world, although these initiatives are still relatively rare. Indeed, often it can be difficult to delineate exactly what is co-creation of the curriculum and where these projects are taking place.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

Matt:   Being a Challenge Host, alongside Dr Jeni Harden, was an incredibly valuable experience and helped to generate momentum behind efforts to meaningfully embed climate and sustainability into the curriculum. I These recommendations were drawn directly from their own student experience. Students have some great ideas.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Is it just academic staff, or should we be inviting professional bodies, employers, alumni, and current students to co-design courses and programmes? As Jester’s quote highlights, curricula are social constructs, designed by people with differing values, backgrounds, political beliefs and experiences. Happy reading! Feb 5, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. It is cited as a reason for choosing the University of Edinburgh Business School.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

It was originally developed for undergraduate students following courses on the history of science and medicine to connect their learning to the city in which they study. Andrews), Matjaz Vidmar, Kate Bowell and many others, we have been able to develop the digital project to what it is now. You can read the full PTAS report here.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I created a looser skeleton plan, allowing room for flexibility in a way that is not encouraged within my curriculum, and explored new activities and ideas that I would never have conceived of prior to writing my first SLICC those two years beforehand, achieving an A2. I’m not sure that I’ll ever really stop learning from it.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At the conference, one of the session was about questions , and the reasons for students being reluctant to ask questions during lectures, including not wanting to lose face or get negative reactions. I think it is also helpful to see peer teachers interacting with instructors because it shows that asking questions isn’t so intimidating.

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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. billion unique devices.

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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 Academic Communities

MAY 13, 2022

Back in June 2020, as I was designing Engineering Principles 1 (EP1), I decided to employ a project-based approach to develop professional skills while cultivating community building. She is the current second year student representative as well as the Staff and Alumni Liaison of the Chemical Engineering Society.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 15, 2022

Projects: We have embedded a project-based learning approach, with 4 practical projects of relatively different nature, spanning from practical to conceptual, from design to construction and testing Project 1: In the first project, the ‘Reflective Engineer’, the students are paired with one of our alumni to conduct an interview.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I created a looser skeleton plan, allowing room for flexibility in a way that is not encouraged within my curriculum, and explored new activities and ideas that I would never have conceived of prior to writing my first SLICC those two years beforehand, achieving an A2. I’m not sure that I’ll ever really stop learning from it.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As with other assignments, consider what you would like in terms of the outcomes of the Wikipedia assignment, both in terms of the skills students are to develop and the impact on Wikipedia, and work backwards from there. Many other educators have intimated to me that a Wikipedia assignment is one they would dearly love to try.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At the conference, one of the session was about questions , and the reasons for students being reluctant to ask questions during lectures, including not wanting to lose face or get negative reactions. I think it is also helpful to see peer teachers interacting with instructors because it shows that asking questions isn’t so intimidating.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

The final assessment was a ‘response article’ that contributed to the debate over one of the papers by critiquing its arguments or developing its thesis in some new direction. We wanted to read pre-published work, but we also wanted to ensure it was strong and well-developed. Students can offer a fresh take on old controversies.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Credit: unsplash, @vidarnm, CC0 On a wonderfully sunny day in June 2016, I graduated with an honours degree in Geology and Physical Geography. Four years of labs, essays, field trips and, of course, rocks… it was schist hot! I really enjoyed the degree course and acquired excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

This year, over 40 students and 40 delegates took part in the event and the feedback that the students received from those who attended was overwhelmingly positive. Below are some student quotations to highlight their thoughts about the course and the conference. I really enjoyed talking about our research. It gave our academic work meaning.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 25, 2017

A number of factors – including pace and intensity of the course; an external tutor pool of around 100 professionals; limited time for tutor training – compound the need to get the message as to how to lead and participate in a workshop over to both these audiences in an effective and memorable way.

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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. But how can this integration be achieved?

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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. ‘Over our dead bodies’ was the response I got when proposing to my final year undergrad Graphic Design students that we phase out the Design Agency scheme.

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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. 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. Nov 27, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

SLICCs are developing momentum and becoming embedded within existing programmes of study. An important element of the SLICCs reflective learning and assessment framework and pedagogy is that it develops students’ learning and assessment literacy. Honours or MSc projects), or takes a reflective portfolio overview of a whole programme.

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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. A workshop was held with local residents and businesses, the council, police and the academic team.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It is organised as a 20 credit elective course in year two, that spans both semesters to enable participating students to undertake a meaningful placement in a school, to initiate development of their own teaching skills in working with school pupils, and to develop and deliver a cultural learning experience in their school class placement. .

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Minimum burden – maximum benefits There is no added burden on the attachment provider – they simply have a volunteer at their disposal. There is also no burden on staff to find placements as it is the student’s role on this course to initiate and maintain a link with an external organisation.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As part of its remit, it provides ELDeR (Edinburgh Learning Design Roadmap) workshops for academic teams to (re)design courses and programmes, including facilitation from the IAD and representation from School-level Learning Technologists, Professional Services, and Librarians, along with students and/or alumni.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Curriculum (re)design is an iterative process, and a course will never be finished. One effective strategy for course design is the backwards design framework, which starts with identifying desired learning outcomes and working backwards to develop assessments and instructional activities. link] Wiggins, G.P. , & McTighe, J.

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