Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Financial awards of up to £15,000 help participants to develop research skills and build communities of staff and students with an interest in enhancing teaching and learning. We gratefully acknowledge that annual funding for the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme is provided by the University of Edinburgh Development Trust.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2019

In this issue, the first of hopefully many posts will be published, which will reflect on participating staff members’ experiences of their visit. Mini-series: Academic blogging We continue this month with the mini-series: Academic Blogging. Teaching in Dialogue: Content-independent learning , by Angus Bancroft.

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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. Dr Cathy Bovill who focusses on student engagement. Being an intern here on the Employ.Ed

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Student Partnership Agreement is reviewed annually, and sets out a number of priority areas, which serve as the focus for the proposed projects. These priorities are agreed in consultation with students and staff. Developing students who are: disciplinary experts; ready to thrive in a changing world; and highly employable.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

” So, at an instrumentally beneficial level, “research-led teaching reflects and makes use of the teacher’s disciplinary research to benefit student learning and outcomes” (Trowler & Wareham, 2008). Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 25, 2019

Building online communities can help with student engagement and satisfaction (Lui et al, 2007). Online students can feel a sense of isolation, and a well-designed online course can help overcome this by designing activities and opportunities for them to participate in and contribute to online communities.

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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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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

Integrating and embedding the SDGs more formally into university curricula will build on the existing knowledge base that many students leave school with, and allow them to develop this further, applying it to their degree programmes in novel and innovative ways.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 23, 2017

I am presently enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate for Academic Practice, and am writing a blog as part of the Designing Courses module. We were asked to read an article by Anna Sfard on acquisition and participation metaphors in learning, and consider how these apply to our own practice.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 3, 2022

Keep an eye out on the Students’ Association’s social media pages, and the Teaching Matters Blogs and Podcasts in the Students’ Association Teaching Awards 2022 ‘Hot Topic’ series over the coming weeks to find out about our nominees and join in the celebrations.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 6, 2023

For now, over the next few months, we are delighted to offer our readers a series that showcases a number of Conference presentations, including blog posts by our keynote speakers , podcast episodes, reflections on the Conference experience, as well as summaries of presenters’ talks. Jul 6, 2023

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This hands-on experiential learning was my ideal learning style as it allowed us to gain skills in applied ethics, problem-solving, and leadership in addition to the materials covered in taught lectures.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Media Hopper Replay student helpers This, the final post in our lecture recording mini-series , is devoted to the views and thoughts of our students – the recipients of lecture recordings. Four students responded to this request, and their responses were, overall, very positive.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

No one group of staff in the School has been given the responsibility of doing the analytics – so no one does it. I used my internship to create a guide for staff on using analytics, providing recommendations the School should consider moving forwards.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Next steps What we need from people reading this blog is to start accessing the learning resources and courses and sharing as widely as they can. Workshops will be released on a quarterly basis and toolkits will be reviewed then as well.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Teaching Matters is delighted to launch a podcast to accompany and complement the Teaching Matters blog, adding another space for conversations and debates around learning and teaching at the University of Edinburgh. The podcast invites students and staff to engage in topical conversations, which are recorded and edited as podcast episodes.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, pixelcult, CC0 In this blog post, Dr Siobhan O’Connor, a Lecturer in Nursing Studies, describes how she and a student co-led a review to understand how social media is used in nursing education as an approach to learning … Background Social media has been with us now for over a decade and, as a technology, it is very popular (..)

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 6, 2020

For our first post in 2020, we are celebrating the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2019. 2 in 2018 Top Ten) As in 2018, Professor Vicky Gunn and Dr Pauline Hanesworth’s blog post still resonates strongly with viewers, as they each discuss how to bring inclusivity into the heart of disciplinary practices.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 9, 2019

Writing about your Go Abroad Staff experiences for Teaching Matters If you have completed a funded Go Abroad Staff trip, and would like to reflect on what you did and learnt, please consider a writing Teaching Matters blog post. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Some of her research interests include equity, diversity and inclusivity issues in health professional education, mindfulness in dental education, and student engagement concepts.

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