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Welcome to the November issue of Teaching Matters: Student author month

Teaching Matters Academic Support

. ‘ Students as Researchers ‘ is one such movement where the traditional teacher/student binary is disrupted, and undergraduate students are invited to research and contribute to the broader base of their discipline (Walkington, 2015). Nov 1, 2018

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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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Mini-series: Turning internships into blog posts and friendship into teamwork

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this article, Lila Pitcher, Student Intern with Information Services, talks about her experience of co-creating the Information Services Group (ISG) Intern Blog during the summer of 2018. Some of the IS Interns at one of our memorable lunches.

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The group project SLICC in medicine: “In this course, you can do anything you want to…”

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

To cope with this wide spectrum of projects, we use the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) reflective framework. This is described in more detail in a previous Teaching Matters article.

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Teaching building and building teachers

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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.