Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

Heads of OER initiatives should look to involve representatives from as many parts of campus as possible, including DEI leaders, social justice officers, instructional designers, disability services workers, institutional research officers, faculty, librarians, and students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2019

Although our Student Disability Service offers autism awareness training, all too often the job of educating staff falls to individual autistic students, and we know anecdotally that many autistic people struggle to identify what adjustments would be helpful. This is much easier said than done.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The pilot has now reached its halfway point and, in this blog post, we outline a short summary of what we have achieved so far, some of our findings, and what we hope to accomplish in the remaining months of the project. This blog post was originally featured on the Holyrood Campus Learning Technology blog.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 10, 2018

In fact, as I’ve written about in my blog , adapting to the limitations imposed on me by my illness may well have been advantageous for learning. I could go at my own pace and reread bits easily if I was struggling with concentration. Twitter I find Twitter essential for networking, and I’ve met people from my field from around the world.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 11, 2020

This blog post will look at the activities in your first few weeks and the support available throughout your studies at The University of Edinburgh. The Advice Place is also a fantastic service run by the Students Association , who offer free impartial advice about anything and everything.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 11, 2022

Image credit: Kenta Kikuchi, Unsplash CC0 Today, Joséphine Foucher, Teaching Matters’ Co-Editor, introduces the blog’s Top 10 most read posts in 2021. Every January, the editors at Teaching Matters take stock of the conversations on the blog that have generated the most interest among readers.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 1, 2022

I am developing Psychreg Resilience Project (PReP) to help young people in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries boost their resilience through a blog-based intervention. His PhD project explores the viability of blogs as a resilience intervention. Works like these serve as inspirations for my own research project. Aug 1, 2022

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