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A Beginner’s Guide to AI in Annual Giving

EAB

Even though AI cannot substitute for subject-matter expertise, it can make your existing experts more productive and help staff develop new areas of expertise. ChatGPT and other AIs can drastically reduce the amount of time that it takes even highly expert staff to perform core tasks. and external parties (ie.

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Mini-series: Blogging to build community – Stories from Nursing Studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Students and staff at Edinburgh are getting behind this campaign in many different ways, one example being the coffee rounds our PhD student and alumni attended in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital to raise awareness of the campaign.

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Alleviating “first day” overload: Using Moodle to induct MSc students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

A welcome “talking head” from the course leaders and testimonials from previous students, or an alumni section where ex students can give advice to new students, can promote the course in a personal way like an open day would. Academics and support staff also benefit. In this way, it can be used to market the programme too.

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A student’s experience of the Learning and Teaching Conference 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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Mini-series: What is the value of lecture recording at the University of Edinburgh?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

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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A student's experience of the Learning and Teaching Conference 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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Bridging the seminar room and the world of public policy: Six practical tips for organising work placements

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Photo credit: unsplash, Elizabeth Jamieson, CC0 In this post, Dr Daniel Kenealy, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, presents his six top tips for organising student work placements One of my most challenging but rewarding tasks has been the development of around eighty ‘Capstone’ placements for postgraduate (..)