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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We work with them directly, partnering with our National Alumni Council. We realized that we had the technology, capability, and infrastructure, but our institutions needed more curriculum development and engagement. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is proud to serve as this years media sponsor.

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Mini-series: Balance for better – Diversifying Wikipedia

Teaching Matters Online Learning

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. Jun 19, 2019

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Creating a community of Freshers: A new culture in engineering education

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The excellent level of interaction, and coordination achieved by the teams in the past two years is best exemplified by the final group videos published in the Engineering 1 Media Hopper Replay channel. 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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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Sabrina is working for the think tank, the German Society for International Cooperation; Joel for Full Fact, an organisation that checks claims made by politicians and the media. He now works as a researcher and writer for Full Fact – an organisation which factchecks claims made by politicians and the media.

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Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge

Teaching Matters Online Learning

how to construct a data-driven map & timeline of female University of Edinburgh Alumni with different language labels in 15 mins ? how to edit Wikipedia & setup a user page in 25 minutes ? Ewan McAndrew Ewan McAndrew is the current Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.