Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In this post, Dr Francesca Baseby, Manager of the Centre for Research Collections, reveals the benefits of Object Based Learning, an experiential learning method available to students and staff at the university… The Centre for Research Collections (CRC) provides access to The University of Edinburgh’s unique cultural and heritage collections.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. This idea was brought to the American colonies largely by graduates from Cambridge and Edinburgh.

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AIFS Abroad

MARCH 31, 2025

Stroll through Villa Borghese and enjoy the stunning architectural sites. Or conduct some research for your personal projectfinding the best pizza and pasta in Rome! When youre not researching the newest story, youll find Sydney offers an incredible lifestyle. Hang out at the Piazza Navona and watch the city buzz with life.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. Space begins with walking through the main doors, the café, the social spaces, the library and of course the formal learning spaces. What might this look like?

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AIFS Abroad

APRIL 16, 2021

This class gave me most of my new friends and forced me out of my comfort zone going into art museums and looking at architecture in a new light. This course allowed me to not only learn more closely about the Berlin Wall and what life was like before, during, and after, but it exposed me to my first field research experience.

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Great College Advice

JULY 1, 2023

College libraries are important centers of the campus. In the 21st century, what is a college library for, anyway? Not too long ago, there was a major ethnographic study of how college students actually use libraries for research and learning demonstrated the degree to which students make use of libraries and librarians: not much.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2020

With practices of landscape/architecture now adjusting and re-tuning to the condition of pandemic distancing, the value and means of visiting sites – in person and virtually – are necessarily becoming more deliberate, and deliberated upon, with limits to travel, border crossings and social encounters.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

These experiences and national research studies revealed that students who feel like they belong on campus are about 40% more likely to continue after their freshmen year. Then I found a unique company – it was as if a management consultancy and an architecture firm had a baby. What we would do was write design briefs. Tell us more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

One literally said, as he pointed out his window, "There's the library. When we met in the library or on the quad, they invariably asked what I had thought about a particular reading or idea, and listened attentively as I responded, and often punched back. Don’t just be a teacher or a research or a scholar.

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