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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. in community college leadership. She excluded herself to avoid bias, so there were 22 students in the group studied.

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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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Collegiate Commentary: Five facets of the Student Voice

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Simon Varwell Simon Varwell is Senior Development Consultant at sparqs , Scotland’s national agency for student engagement, where he leads on institutional support and staff development. He can be found on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Explaining Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Access

Teaching Matters Academic Support

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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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

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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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. This is a re-post of the original video published in October 2020, on the Hybrid Exchange.

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Teaching, football and facilitator metaphors

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

We were asked to read an article by Anna Sfard on acquisition and participation metaphors in learning, and consider how these apply to our own practice. I am presently enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate for Academic Practice, and am writing a blog as part of the Designing Courses module.