Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

These inspiring examples brought to mind an ARU project entitled Seeing Myself, which saw students from diverse backgrounds co-create a series of workshops, short films and motivational talks by ARU alumni, facilitated by Karen Sturt, Student Engagement Manager in the Faculty of Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

These inspiring examples brought to mind an ARU project entitled Seeing Myself, which saw students from diverse backgrounds co-create a series of workshops, short films and motivational talks by ARU alumni, facilitated by Karen Sturt, Student Engagement Manager in the Faculty of Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. In this blog post, Pooja and Ankita, SACHA alumni discuss co-creation and collaboration in course design. However, implementing co-creation faces hurdles like students’ reluctance to participate (Cook-Sather & Luz, 2015 ; Mapstone et al.,

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Change Agents collaborate with Sarah Anderson from the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a workshop to help shape the University’s next community plan. ” Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. Image credit: author.

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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). These naturally improve their access to career prospects.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

There is support from the Education Department in Edinburgh City Council, who support the orientation workshops for our students. They act as liaison between university and schools to create the school placements, as well as paying for our students to apply for Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) membership by Disclosure Scotland.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 17, 2018

We then gathered the commissioning group students for the kick-off design brief development workshop. Design students Peiling Cai, Yifan Huang, Sara Kliczka, Aning Kuswinarni, Elfi Lempida, Andreas Makas, Mariela Martinez, Claudia Mucino, Mayela Salazar, Lucia Savastano, Elizabeth Seaver, Yuanyue Sun, Gayathri Vasu, and Qingqing Zhang.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As universities are under an increasing level of regulation and accountability in relation to student success and retention, we see commitments towards partnership working as a form of best practice (see: Office for Students Student Engagement Strategy ).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Change Agents collaborate with Sarah Anderson from the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a workshop to help shape the University’s next community plan. Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. Image credit: author.

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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. Be sure to share updates about how upcoming FAFSA changes will affect affordability.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Every day, the makerspace team supports students and staff by delivering curriculum-embedded workshops, providing advice on projects, holding training sessions, and maintaining equipment for makers to experiment in a collaborative, safe and friendly environment.

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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

MAY 26, 2016

In addition to this, they are encouraged to attend a series of workshops that aim to develop their research skills, and to provide them with opportunities to develop communities of practice with students who are researching similar topics.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

She has organised regular lunches for students of all years of the programme, alongside inviting alumni to offer their perspectives, and engaging with the Careers Service to help her students who are coming towards the end of their degrees, creating smoother transitions.

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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 Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

November 2016’s project ‘Graphic Design in a Box’ brought final year Graphic Design students together with university careers advisers, experts in widening participation, and recent graduates, for an intensive, three-week sprint taking ECA out of the College and into the classroom to introduce high school learners to creative careers pathways.

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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. Alternatively, the learning experience may be a project that produces a substantial report or output (e.g.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Credit: unsplash, @priscilladupreez, CC0 An additional assignment involved working in collaboration with the Carbon Trust , auditing the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in order to calculate their carbon footprint, as well as identifying energy efficiencies and detailing cost saving measures.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

This was a community engagement project called Resilient Borders , which focused on cultural, ecological and socio-economic particulars of the location. Galashiels community engagement workshop. Photo credit: Resilient Borders.

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