Higher Ed Ethics Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

AWARD CRITERIA Examples of innovative techniques/methods include, but are not limited to: Developing a case, video, audio, or other teaching techniques that can be used to integrate ethics into the accounting curriculum. Developing a new course in accounting ethics including learning objectives and assessment techniques.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2017

One summer, I read a Times Higher Education article which spoke about how some educators were using Wikipedia for course assignments. Evaluate where you believe there is a content gap on Wikipedia (articles requiring improved or created) and weigh that against the availability of resources to help plug that gap.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

While Wikipedia has significant reach and influence, it also has significant gaps in its coverage of topics, articles in other languages and the diversity of its editors. The result is that our community is more engaged with knowledge creation online and readers all over the world benefit from our teaching, research and collections.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

The University offers a wide range of continuing professional development (CPD) resources and courses, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), on different platforms (EdX, Coursera, and Future Learn). This article briefly highlights the benefits and challenges for MOOC creation. million course visitors over the past 10 years.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For example, working with the PG Cert Global Health Challenges in groups on improving short stub articles about natural and man-made disasters and on the Digital Education MSc writing a new up-to-date page on Information literacies. This is a meaningful and motivating demonstration of their teaching and learning.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Umberto, CC0 In this article, Eugen Stoica, Scholarly Communications Officer, explains the relationship between Copyright – Creative Commons licences – Open Access, and why these are important for teaching and education.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The ACHA does not warrant nor assume any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented in this article/presentation. student leaders, administrative leaders).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Running out of blog space now… but it is important to keep in mind that the effects of teaching on learning depend on many other factors than those mentioned here, as can be seen in the mind map, below, while an article covering the same topics is available as complementary to this blog.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 8, 2016

Students can be taught how to edit in up to 60 minutes and thereafter can research and write, with academic rigour, brand new Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia is much more straightforward using the new Visual Editor interface which makes editing Wikipedia now as easy as using Microsoft Word.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In fact, I have been applying these principles in practice in the design of assessment on a number of Honours and Masters level courses at the School of Engineering and Edinburgh Futures Institute , as discussed in Part 2 of this article. [1]

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Build on the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, and support the development of new skills and intentional approaches as more change unfolds with the ongoing influence of the pandemic. Connect pedagogy, assessment and digital technology in curriculum development.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The report has an entire section on education, drawing a simple correlation between young people learning skills such as programming and entrepreneurship for a national transformation of upskilling development.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

The final assessment was a ‘response article’ that contributed to the debate over one of the papers by critiquing its arguments or developing its thesis in some new direction. The best response articles (and many were excellent) were sent to the theorists in question. The theorists then had a chance to respond to the responses.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, I suggest and discuss a possible reason as to why our students might be relying on AI and MT to compose texts for them instead of trusting in their own competencies. With the right prompt, a tool like ChatGPT can produce a bespoke essay on any given topic almost instantaneously.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Next steps: Read the following useful articles recommended by the author – Dabbagh, N. The Future We are constantly reviewing student feedback and exploring other approaches for assessment to ensure courses are pedagogically sound and continue to be engaging and rewarding for students. Verenikina, I. and Jones, P.

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Despite the scarcity of studies on the use of VR in classrooms, evidence examined so far suggests that VR is a powerful tool for provoking empathy and self-efficacy, according to an article by The Hechinger Report. The process of using VR to provoke empathy.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Today’s Inside Higher Ed brings us an article entitled “ What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters ” by Vita Rabinowitz, Yoshiko Oka, and Alexandra W. This article brings these two points together. Luckily, Providence provides. Logue of CUNY’s Transfer Opportunity Project (TOP).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Constructive alignment as a principle was ‘generalised from the context of in-service teacher education’, [3] leaving one to wonder whether Biggs’ argument might have been any different had the title of his 1996 article been ‘Enhancing Learning (instead of teaching ) through constructive alignment’?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Cathy leads the IAD programme and course design team, leads the UoE Student Partnership Agreement and funding scheme, is Convenor of the UoE Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme and is co-chair of the Curriculum Transformation Programme Student Engagement Strategy Group. Nov 15, 2021

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JUNE 19, 2018

You can read more about this project in the following article: McMillan, C., Loads, D., & McQueen, H. From students to scientists: The impact of interactive engagement in lectures. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, (13).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Through conversations with my peers, I learned many flourished under the cut and dry method of teaching: you read the articles, you come to lectures, you listen, and you learn. However, there seemed to be little room for discussion or debate – my preferred methods of learning—in my postgraduate course. I found myself bored.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Running out of blog space now… but it is important to keep in mind that the effects of teaching on learning depend on many other factors than those mentioned here, as can be seen in the mind map, below, while an article covering the same topics is available as complementary to this blog.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While one may have asked too many questions to the students on topics they should instead have been simply informed about, perhaps making the lectures ‘too easy’, another would cover vast amounts of academic literature in a single lecture, citing dozens of books and articles, and making some students feel a bit lost.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

A BP article paints a bleaker picture, particularly for engineering, highlighting a 20,000 annual shortfall of engineering graduates, and a lack of racial and gender diversity. But STEM still faces challenges. This is where Engineering for Change (E4C) can help.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our first Masters student from Malawi graduated in November 2013 (see BBC News article ), and I am pleased to report that full-fee scholarships have enabled a further 23 Malawian trainees to enrol on the Masters, twelve of whom graduated between 2014 and 2017, and nine are currently on-programme.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Many of these participants have been post-doctoral, but they have found the courses very useful when writing articles, for example. We have thus been able (through Cara) to offer places to Syrian academics living in exile (mainly in Turkey). 1] Lea, M.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In fact, I have been applying these principles in practice in the design of assessment on a number of Honours and Masters level courses at the School of Engineering and Edinburgh Futures Institute , as discussed in Part 2 of this article. [1]

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The University does not have an official policy that lecture attendance is compulsory (Check out Article 24 of the Degree Regulations and Programmes of Study). Others argue that the correlation between lecture attendance and performance is weak at best (Horton, Wiederman, & Saint, 2012; Walbeek, 2004).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

To delve further, see Teaching Matters’ 2022 series on embedding reflective learning in the curriculum or the diversity of articles exploring reflection-enhanced practice. There is a wide range of examples embedded in the Reflection Toolkit , for both reflectors and facilitators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Further, authors discuss the unique contributions of nine different articles around this topic for this special issue. Ford Cultivating Black joy is critical, given censorship placed in schools, on Black bodies, and in the curriculum. This article details two ways hip hop and YPAR were combined to develop homeplaces.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

” The Center for an Informed Public started in December 2019 as a way to bring together an interdisciplinary team of researchers “to translate research about misinformation and disinformation into policy, technology design, curriculum development, and public engagement.” Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In this article we will share tips that helped us redesign our first courses. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. moment when tasked with teaching a new course. Fortunately, there are numerous strategies to help you effectively prepare for your first year as a course director or facilitator. Zakrajsek, TD.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Many of these participants have been post-doctoral, but they have found the courses very useful when writing articles, for example. We have thus been able (through Cara) to offer places to Syrian academics living in exile (mainly in Turkey). 1] Lea, M.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 20, 2023

In this article, we will explore the shift in public opinion regarding higher education, its challenges, and what higher ed needs to do to turn this perception around and ensure its sustainability. This perpetuates the internal focus of curriculum development and programmatic outcomes.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A peer-reviewed journal article is forthcoming. Learning will be, at times, uncomfortable and necessarily slow: Therefore, educators must create safe and supportive spaces in which students can take intellectual risks and navigate interdisciplinaritys non-linear learning journey.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This discrepancy presents unique challenges in curriculum development and teaching methodologies. This stagnation in curriculum development was seen as a hindrance to preparing students for the contemporary job market. He says, you know, and I’m quoting from an article in Inside Higher Ed, despite.

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