Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We took the opportunity presented by the Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) to engage IFP alumni in the construction of this student-led project. We invited all IFP alumni from 2018-2023, and seven volunteered from across all years of UG study. Next, we moved on to the student-led project.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 9, 2020

Welcome to July’s Issue: Alumni experiences Since we received a large amount of contributions for last month’s issue on ‘Student Transitions’, we decided to expand it and slightly shorten this month’s issue that will focus on the ‘Alumni experience and connecting learning and teaching in the workplace’.

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Terminalfour

MAY 13, 2024

Universities and colleges are very active on LinkedIn, showing ads to reach prospective students, engage alumni, and promote special events. From personalized ads to targeted industry campaigns, check out the creative ways higher ed marketers are leveraging LinkedIn for their marketing efforts.

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Campus Groups

MAY 31, 2022

16 Fun College Orientation Ideas to Encourage Student Engagement in 2022 For many students, college orientation can be their first experience on their own. Student panel discussion Q: Who has the best and most sincere answers to students’ and parents’ most burning questions? A: Currently enrolled students!

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University Business

OCTOBER 21, 2024

However, higher ed leaders can go beyond by leveraging specialty foods at critical times and places outside their dining halls to increase student engagement in campus life, create more inclusive environments, and ensure equity among departments, on and off campus.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 23, 2023

Photo credit: Ileana Iacobescu In this extra post, Heidi Smith, Alison Parker and Jessica Chamberlin from Moray House School of Education and Sport showcase the events surrounding the 50 th anniversary of the Outdoor and Environmental Education postgraduate programmes at The University of Edinburgh. This is how Alumni events should be!

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

APRIL 22, 2024

Infrequent or Irregular Cadence: The frequency and timing of emails play a significant role in how and whether students engage with them. Emails sent infrequently may fail to keep your institution in students’ minds, while an irregular cadence can confuse or annoy them.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We took the opportunity presented by the Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) to engage IFP alumni in the construction of this student-led project. We invited all IFP alumni from 2018-2023, and seven volunteered from across all years of UG study. Next, we moved on to the student-led project.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Your unique selling point (USP) is the exceptional faculty-student ratio, enabling individualized mentoring. In recruitment materials, you feature student success stories with dedicated professors and alumni achievements from the supportive environment. Recruitment Strategy 9: Alumni Engagement Engage your alumni as ambassadors.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 23, 2023

In this extra post, Heidi Smith, Alison Parker and Jessica Chamberlin from Moray House School of Education and Sport showcase the events surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Outdoor and Environmental Education postgraduate programmes at The University of Edinburgh.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 12, 2024

Community college admissions offices also can learn several valuable lessons from their peers that are experiencing strong growth — including two-year, four-year, and alternative credentialing institutions — regarding marketing strategies, student engagement tactics, and operational efficiency.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We have a pool of trained alumni who are available both in Edinburgh and abroad, who can help to support students. This could be in 1-1 meetings, or through some of the events we set up. We invite former alumni too, bringing together various generations of students, to share questions and experiences.

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Campus Groups

JULY 26, 2022

Mobile apps reportedly contribute to higher rates of student engagement, retention, and success. They are used by Student Life administrators and students for planning, communicating, tracking, and reporting. Events listing and calendar filtering, including a “My Events” view. event location moved).

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 23, 2022

The EFWiL Shelf Indulgence Project The Edinburgh Foundation for Women in Law (EFWiL) is a foundation that bridges both our students studying at Edinburgh Law School and those who are working in the legal profession. To achieve its aims, the foundation holds events and runs projects to create spaces for women to talk. Aug 23, 2022

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Original illustration by Aoife Céitinn, winner of Student Illustration competition 2023, Teaching Matters In Part 1 of two consecutive blog posts, the authors highlight student experiences of the transition from the Personal Tutor System to the new Cohort Model. Fiona McNeill Fiona is a Reader in Computing Education in Informatics.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 25, 2019

Game modified with staff photos at Launch Event. Although it was well-used by staff for morning coffee and some students for lunch, as well as for social events, it was not a welcoming space. Furthermore, the Chemunity team organise a variety of events. Photo Credit: C Mowat. The refurbishment is wonderful.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 19, 2020

This can be achieved by building synergies and partnerships with alumni and organisations in the UK and other parts of the world. To get a firsthand perspective on student leadership, I had a brief interview with Katherine Frangos about her reflections on serving as the Programme Representative of the Sustainable Energy Systems (SES) course.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

Whilst this is happening, a student research committee begins to organise the culminating event – a one-day conference where teachers, academics, students and other key stakeholders are invited to learn more about their research.

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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 Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

While we have published posts written by students before*, this is the first Teaching Matters issue that is authored solely by University of Edinburgh students (and student alumni). A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g., You can book a place at the LTW Monthly Showcase here.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 10, 2019

Our students and staff have been fantastic at contributing engaging pieces of writing covering everything from teaching, research and events to campaigning. We encourage everyone to send in contributions to keep the blog interesting and diverse.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Being first-generation leads students to drastically overestimate college cost and assume four-year schools are out of reach, despite substantial available aid.” Support Basic Needs Security, a Sense of Belonging, and Student Engagement 2. If you have a virtual tour, you can leverage that tool in your summer communications.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

Claire has had a massive impact on her students, from celebrating their achievements to lifting them up when they were going through rough academic patches. She made the Sustainable Development degree feel like a genuine community through her commitment and wide range of events.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Student success ensures that students develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies required for employment in their chosen fields. Well-prepared graduates enhance the institution's reputation and contribute to a strong alumni network. Societal Impact Student success in higher education has a broader societal impact.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

There are also staff at social events at the school, staff-student collaboration through UCVME activities , and various opportunities to express opinions to staff. This creation of a community at the school promotes more open conversation between staff and students, and has led to some unique collaboration.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 5, 2024

Students who got academic counseling were 20% more likely to report greater levels of engagement and satisfaction with their educational experience. This has been proved right according to the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 1, 2016

We also add news items as they come in and run an events listing page. The theme for this month is community engagement and experiential learning within the curriculum. Let us have your news , let us know when you are organising events on learning and teaching we can publicise, and send in your own blogs and comments.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

There are also staff at social events at the school, staff-student collaboration through UCVME activities , and various opportunities to express opinions to staff. This creation of a community at the school promotes more open conversation between staff and students, and has led to some unique collaboration.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The tools devised included a light-up installation, Making up your Mind , which enables young people to build personalised brain maps to be discussed at careers events, and IDK (I Don’t Know) , a mid-term creative festival of talks and workshops supported by a website, information pack and Snapchat filter.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Final Event, detailing my developmental goals, as well as how they had progressed. I would thoroughly recommend doing this, as it really helped me to reflect on my development over the summer, and see how much I had improved. At the end of my internship, I gave a presentation to other interns at the Employ.ed So how did I spend my summer?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

We then also examined various iterations and developments through a simulation exercise to assess how the demand on these nurses changed throughout a procedure, and the skills they used to adapt to both these events in surgery as well.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

The project can only be realised through close engagement with community groups, similar to the Galashiels project. A series of events will be held to orient students to the perspectives of community groups and organisations with an interest in the canal’s development.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

To add to the workload, we organised further events – seminars, lectures and, in one case, a book launch – around the visits. For starters, it involves a lot of admin: sending invitations, settling dates, booking hotels and cafes, and bugging guests to book their travel and send in papers on time.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And without a place like Makuu, without black alumni support, without multicultural connections, this stuff is not going to happen on its own. I'm looking forward to the ways that students engage this. I get that you like the campus, but you're in the city, you can come for events, you can come for different things.

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