Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2018

Robbie’s written blog that follows highlights the key messages that the video aims to make visible. Designing the course so that it is delivered locally , at Woodlands, provides enhanced and unique learning opportunities as a result of deep immersive experiences in landscapes.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Credit: Pixabay In this captivating blog post, Dr. Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt, a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at The University of Edinburgh, introduces an innovative approach to humanities education through her course, “Supernatural Japan: Doing Japanology through Yokai.”

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 18, 2020

Both Spotlight series will include a mix of new and previously published blogs. Please use the web links #remoteteaching and #alternative assessments to share these blogs with colleagues. If you have practice to share or topics you would like to see covered please contact teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk. We’d be delighted to hear from you.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In her detailed blog, Dr. O’Reilly discusses how oral presentations not only enhance learning outcomes by allowing students to delve deeply into their subjects but also prepare them for professional realities where clear and impactful communication is essential.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 30, 2025

Credit: Pixabay In this progressive blog post, Dr. David Reid, the Remote Laboratories Experimental Officer at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, explores the transformative potential of using learning analytics for effective formative feedback in educational settings.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

In addition a blog has been introduced as a tool for students to reflect on their learning from a clinical elective. Ellie Jolly in 2017 The blogs offer an opportunity for reflection and encourage students to engage with technology whilst enabling them to submit work for assessment from across the globe.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Jingjing is very pleased to illustrate for this blog on GenAI which contributes to the important and exciting discussions regarding AI in education. Feb 6, 2025

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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 Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Indeed, often it can be difficult to delineate exactly what is co-creation of the curriculum and where these projects are taking place.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This series of blog posts will stimulate that thinking, and I hope to see it spill over into our ongoing conversation about the future of learning and teaching. A striking aspect of this series will be the explicit recognition of shared agendas and mutual benefit.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

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.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 1, 2023

Recent results from the National Centre for Education Statistics show that institutions that adopted a curriculum mapping approach saw notable advancements in several areas. We'll go over the top ten advantages of employing a curriculum mapping system that is specially designed for the demands of the US educational environment in this blog post.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

Once again, the Edinburgh Fringe is upon us, and this month Teaching Matters is very excited to present blog post contributions from staff and students performing at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CoDI), as part of the Fringe. Remember to check out Prof Amy Tsui’s blog post summarising her key note here.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Bringing together more of the interview responses with the inventory findings provides support for the ways in which teaching and learning are being developed over the last few years in Edinburgh.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 16, 2023

To effectively implement CBE, educational institutions can harness the power of online curriculum mapping. In this blog post, we will explore the ways online curriculum mapping facilitates and enhances the implementation of CBE. What is curriculum mapping?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Students were also introduced to reflective learning models, as tools for their regular reflective blogs. These blogs form part of their assessed portfolio where they evidence what they have learned and demonstrate how they have met the self-designed learning outcomes for the course using the SLICC framework.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

APRIL 4, 2023

I've posted this blog on my "Ethics Sage" blog as well because of the general interest in the discussion. At the secondary school level, increasingly teachers need to react to the demands of parents who want a role in curriculum development. Blog posted by Dr. Steven Mintz, The Ethics Sage, on April 4, 2023.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 1, 2017

Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. We also run an events listing page. The focus for March is Peer Learning. Remember, you can also submit details about your event and we can advertise it on Teaching Matters.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. This month, we focus on situations where learning has extended outside of the curriculum. We also run an events listing page. The focus for February is Teaching Beyond the Programme.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

This month’s blog posts offer some reflections, conversations and examples of practice where these challenges are being addressed. We are also looking forward to next month’s Teaching Matters issue, which will feature blog posts written only by University of Edinburgh students! Happy reading!

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 29, 2018

Following the successful and celebrated design of the E-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC, SOCRMx foregrounds group discussion rather than video lectures, and offers plenty of spaces and opportunities to ask questions in discussion fora, or write reflectively in a blog post. Want to find out more about MOOCs and Digital Education?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

With this blog post we are delighted to announce the call for applications to participate in the curated week of the Festival, taking place from 19th – 23rd February 2018. For further inspiration, you can read about the events acknowledged at the Festival Awards in this earlier blog post.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Look out for Cathy Bovill’s blog post tomorrow, which offers a brief overview of student engagement literature, and an example of an innovative student engagement inititative. Other blog posts this month will include: Student Jordana Black , an Employ.ed

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

In recent years, institutions have confronted historical legacies of oppression , invested in faculty diversity , and developed retention programs for Black and Latino men , among many other initiatives. Where higher ed leaders agree (and disagree) on the biggest barriers to DEIJ progress. Activities. Activities.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 31, 2018

To read more from Paula on Educational Design and Engagement see these blogs. Paula has written blogs for the Educational Design and Engagement team. I encourage staff on other online programmes to consider dashboards as a helpful approach to student support and guidance. Jan 31, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 8, 2016

However, the residency isn’t just about Wikipedia and there are numerous ways where staff and students can get involved and directly contribute their knowledge & expertise to develop Wikimedia UK’s diverse range of projects.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 6, 2018

A screenshot of Chenée Psaros’ lifestream blog When it comes to assessment, students are challenged to think critically about the changing nature of authorship and scholarship within digital environments (see for instance Bayne 2006; Lea 2013).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Having just completed a secondment with the Institute for Academic Development evaluating the new ‘quecture’ approach to the flipped classroom, over two full teaching cycles, I am starting to believe that I might have something. Answers signal a full stop to thought.” I love it myself.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I love academic blogging. In other words, there are lots of traditional research communiqués about the project, so in this blog I want to talk to you as if you’d just popped into my office for a cuppa and a chat. How we use recordings to facilitate that will require some experimentation, a little like this blog.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 19, 2023

Let's explore the concept of Solo Taxonomy and delve into how it can be used to design effective learning outcomes in the context of higher education in this blog. Solo Taxonomy is a hierarchical framework developed by John Biggs and Kevin Collis for designing and assessing learning outcomes. What is Solo Taxonomy?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Next steps: For more ideas on inclusive teaching, see these Teaching Matters blogs: Making the classroom more inclusive Supporting student journeys Kevin Parker Kevin Parker is a part-time writer at the non-profit blog MastersDegree.net.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2020

Considering the accelerated change the world is currently undergoing, thoughts and ideas are always welcomed especially as we all seek to unravel the potential lessons to take away from this situation and how to incorporate them in future teaching and learning outcomes.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

The student then undertakes their project, frequently reflecting on their learning in a regular blog, together with collecting evidence of that learning in their e-portfolio. The SLICCs initiative provides a flexible, reflective, framework which represents an opportunity to enable interdisciplinary learning and teaching.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Intern Francesca Vavotici’s reflections on keeping a blog during her work at the Centre for Research Collections. She is an Academic Developer (Learning and Teaching Enhancement) in the Institute for Academic Development, and provides pedagogical support for University course and programme design. Happy reading…!

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

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. It was gratifying to see their contributions shape course design and curriculum development.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 1, 2024

This blog post delves into the nuances of this issue, drawing on recent research funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS), and proposes strategic recommendations to bridge the gap. Amplifying BAME voices: Providing platforms for BAME students to share their perspectives and insights promoting visibility and advocacy.

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