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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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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Indeed, often it can be difficult to delineate exactly what is co-creation of the curriculum and where these projects are taking place. While these examples do come with the challenges and risks of embracing spontaneity and sharing ownership (Bovill, Cook-Sather, Felten, Millard, & Moore-Cherry, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al.,

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10 benefits of using the curriculum mapping system

Creatrix Campus

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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Non-Traditional Learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

So this blog post is about how work within the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (CAHSS) seeks to assert, avow and attest ( antonyms of ‘negate’…) to the absolute importance of non-traditional learning. What it’s not Defining by negation is when you provide an instance of what something thing is not.

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Developing professional MOOCs

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Dr Louise Connelly is a Lecturer in Academic Development, and Laura Wardrop is the CPD Manager for the Easter Bush Campus. 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).

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Reflection is an essential skill for their academic, personal, and professional development and success, now and in the future. And as for any skill that impacts students’ development and success, it is important that we purposefully and meaningfully recognise, support, and nurture it, within and beyond our curricula.

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Teaching about Wicked Problems

Teaching Matters Academic Support

We have also been collecting data online from blogs, twitter and web pages. Velda McCune Professor Velda McCune is the Deputy Director at the Institute for Academic Development and Head of the Learning and Teaching Team. The team also guide students in their development as learners.