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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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Podcast: Can blogging be used as an effective form of assessment?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Welcome to episode 4 of the Teaching Matters podcast: Can blogging be used as an effective form of assessment? The Teaching Matters podcast accompanies and complements the Teaching Matters blog, adding another space for students and staff to have conversations and debates around learning and teaching at the University of Edinburgh.

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

To wrap up the year, this editorial post celebrates the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2018. Interestingly, three of these posts were written in 2016, showing that the blog’s content is continually being accessed both nationally, and internationally. Their results were rather conclusive… 2.

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Mini-series: Using the academic blogging service in the Clinical Education and Digital Cultures course

Teaching Matters Online Learning

At the same time, thought has gone into how we can support staff and students to get the most out of their blogs for research, teaching, reflection, etc. Lorna Campbell has developed a great workshop, ‘ Blogging to build your professional profile’, with a wonderful, open blog used as course material.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching and Alternative Assessment Methods

Teaching Matters Online Learning

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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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.

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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

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.