Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

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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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

Develop inclusive faculty and staff policies Update budget processes Update procurement process Transform alumni and volunteer engagement Update campus safety policy and practices. -->. -->. --> Improve student success. -->. -->. -->. Activities. Activities. Activities.

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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

APRIL 4, 2016

Offering choice presents a series of challenges and opportunities to the curriculum developer. For example, how do we work with the professional community to support the 850+ students that are undertaking the Bachelor of Medicine programme at any one time?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

Digital Sociology MSc students engage in workshops about how sociology is communicated and how knowledge is created and curated online each year as a response to the recent ASA article.

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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 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

. * While waiting for their PVG approvals, students contacted their school mentors and arranged a first meeting to discuss their outline for a 20-hour lesson plan on a cultural topic designed to engage young learners and motivate them to see the benefits of learning languages. Half-time: How has it been going so far?

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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

Torgny Roxå 4D: Preparing Students for Dealing with Wicked Problems – Rebekah Tauritz and Velda McCune 5C: What is the Value of Lecture Recording at the University of Edinburgh?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Photo credit: unsplash, Samson Creative, CC0 In this post, Ludovic Maguire, a Business and Economics student, discusses how the breadth of the Global Challenges in Business course – from critical thinking to business to guest lecturers – makes for a valuable experience that emphasises development in the skills of students… Global (..)

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

At this early stage, the student receives feedback from their SLICC staff tutor, who offers them guidance on how they may gain greater insight during the learning experience and maximise the available opportunities.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

Speed dating session The final piece of course work for the students on the BEd PE Programme is the ‘Investigation’. This is a student-led research project that culminates in a student-organised conference, where they share their findings with each other and members of the profession.

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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.

Professional Research 40

Professional Research Alumni Research IT 40

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Torgny Roxå 4D: Preparing Students for Dealing with Wicked Problems – Rebekah Tauritz and Velda McCune 5C: What is the Value of Lecture Recording at the University of Edinburgh?

Hospitality 40

Hospitality Alumni Higher Education Education 40

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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

iStock [erhui1979] In a typical university course, students are set a list of texts by authors they do not know and will never meet. The texts are already published and there is no opportunity for students to give feedback.

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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 Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

‘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. 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.

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