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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. The dissertation in this program is a major applied research project that is the culmination of a rigorous program of study leading to the Ed.

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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Image Credit: Pixabay In this post, Dr Noel Entwistle introduces crucial insights gathered from his research into student learning dynamics at The University of Edinburgh. Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students.

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Developing professional MOOCs

Teaching Matters Online Learning

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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CoDI Show: Hey, you at the back!

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 Most of my research and practice focuses on academic development, more specifically, supporting university staff to enhance their teaching practice in ways that can enhance student engagement. For the last ten years I have been researching the ways that staff and students co-create curricula.

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How to focus on pre-recorded lectures

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: unsplash, Romain Vignes, CC0 In this video post, Dr Sarah Ivory, talks about how to stay focused when using pre-recorded lectures, and at other times, like when reading articles or books. Her research explores sustainability, social enterprise, and more recently, the pedagogy of critical thinking.

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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Image Credit: Pixabay In this post, Prof Noel Entwistle introduces crucial insights gathered from his research into student learning dynamics at The University of Edinburgh. Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students.

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Learning together in a global pandemic: Practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jan 17, 2022