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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As part of this new service, my colleague, Robert Chmielewski, and I have been working on a staff training workshop in the area of blogging for teaching and learning. In preparation, we chatted to a variety of our academic colleagues who are already using great blogs with their students to find out a bit about what they do.

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Welcome to the Sept-Oct Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this first post, Colm Harmon, Vice-Principal Students, introduces the series, contextualising its importance in the landscape of the current Curriculum Transformation Programme. Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service, then provides some insights into the content of the series, before Colm offers a concluding statement.

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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Students keep a blog (≥10 weeks) and write a reflective report of their experiences. The blogs give enlightening insights into the attachments as they unfold and develop. The blogs are an effective way of recording and reflecting on the challenges, insights and innovations students encounter.

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Welcome to the Nov-Dec Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Reflective Learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Too often it is assumed that embedding reflection in the curriculum is too difficult, ‘not for my discipline’, or not robust. He is also Co-Lead for the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses initiative (SLICCs).

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Career Design in a Box: Embedding Career Education in What We Already Do

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Career education should add value to the higher education experience, not devalue it, since it is about making explicit higher education’s wide range of benefits, in ways which enhance our students’ career readiness and employability.

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Co-creation and collaboration in course design: Our journey with SACHA

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. In this blog post, Pooja and Ankita, SACHA alumni discuss co-creation and collaboration in course design. The students in my group were committed and motivated, developing innovative ideas and high-quality outputs.

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Experiential learning and distance learning students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Image credit: Pixabay, CC0 In this blog post, three SACHA alumni (Foster Osei, Mtevee Amugune, and Nisha Daniel), who participated in the SACHA programme as online distance learners, discuss the impact of experiential learning on the distance learner experience and share lessons that can be translated to other areas of the curriculum.