Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The way in which textbooks cement a particular kind of curriculum came to mind in the context of developing my own textbook, Dead White Men and Other Important People , with Ralph Fevre, which had its second edition published this year. The book introduces students to sociological ideas.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 31, 2022

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a priority area of the current Enhancement Theme, and has three projects running this year: The Anti-racist Curriculum project builds on the sector-wide commitment to tackle racism in Scottish higher and further education. The Phase 1 resources can be found on the AdvanceHE website.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The University has world-class collections of books, archives, art and museum objects, whose potential for learning and teaching can be unlocked through digitisation. Digitisation is the process of representing books, documents, recordings or objects as digital information. Dec 19, 2017

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 25, 2018

This is the second outing of the Festival and particularly noticeable this year was the unprecedented number of events that were fully booked, often with long waiting lists, days or even weeks before the Festival began.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Build on the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, and support the development of new skills and intentional approaches as more change unfolds with the ongoing influence of the pandemic. Connect pedagogy, assessment and digital technology in curriculum development.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

For starters, it involves a lot of admin: sending invitations, settling dates, booking hotels and cafes, and bugging guests to book their travel and send in papers on time. To add to the workload, we organised further events – seminars, lectures and, in one case, a book launch – around the visits.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

Scott Carlson and Ned Laff, who have just come out with a book, Hacking Higher Ed, or Hacking Education, College. Or are they learning things that are not Laff? Drumm McNaughton: And interesting the guests that I had on last week. You know it’s a corporate partner. But it needs to be more a quote regular education perspective.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The University’s commitment towards ensuring equality and inclusion in the classroom has resulted in the publication of the innovative and successful ‘recipe’-style book, EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education , edited by Judy Robertson, Alison Williams, Derek Jones, Lara Isbel and Daphne Loads.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Carol also spoke about the importance of educational development and change processes being owned by the subject area and supported by recognition and reward processes. I agree very much with these sentiments. Jen and Amy emphasise the value of embracing mess and complexity in working with emerging technologies in education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

We’ll be announcing dates for our training soon on the MyEd Event Booking Channel. Many of the staff we’ve spoken to admit that blogging with their course is extra work for them but that the extra work is worth it for the benefits, and the genuine excitement about viewing the blogs submitted by their students. Look out for it!

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Cathy leads the IAD programme and course design team, leads the UoE Student Partnership Agreement and funding scheme, is Convenor of the UoE Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme and is co-chair of the Curriculum Transformation Programme Student Engagement Strategy Group. Nov 15, 2021

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Here is an example of what the folders look like inside: We have also created a list of books on study skills, and included links to Cite Them Right, DiscoverED, the Careers Service and so on.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The creation of a porous element beyond the somewhat cloistered university environment, such that students could make experiential connections between ‘book learning’ and ‘real life’. An opportunity for students to gain developmental, transferable skills by learning outside the library and the lecture theatre from the start.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

I was struck by the idea that these are the types of intellectual engagement that we might imagine from books and movies, but never the typical university experience. We were joined on the trek by a group of fashion students from a fashion college in Mumbai.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A lecture hall is not the only place where material can be learned, and books, pencils, and laptops are not the only tools students need to be successful. If it’s for the students, then we need to return to the drawing board and devise new methods that cater to a variety of different learning modes.

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Nourbakhsh is the author of the books Robot Futures and Parenting for Technology Futures. Nourbakhsh, Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, discussed a series of issues related to AI and its potential applications.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While one may have asked too many questions to the students on topics they should instead have been simply informed about, perhaps making the lectures ‘too easy’, another would cover vast amounts of academic literature in a single lecture, citing dozens of books and articles, and making some students feel a bit lost.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Thus, I shall leave you with a couple of quotes from two of our former scholarship recipients, “ I have had the privilege to ask some of the things that I read in books but do not understand being explained to me.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 30, 2018

. – Anne Richie (Co-founder, the Cheyne Gang Choir) The project teams shared their learning journeys with an invited audience of patient and community groups, students, academics and the wider public at a special reception hosted by The Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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Higher Ed Connects: Curriculum

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Many curricular change efforts are able to address this tension because it turns out that liberal arts can , with some intentionality, prepare students for the workforce.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Outside of study, he spends his time buying too many books and not reading enough. He is interested in science education and early universe cosmology, and hopes to continue into postgraduate education and research after graduation. Thomas Gant Thomas Gant is a fourth year Mathematics student who grew up in Fife, Scotland.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

She likes discussing theoretical issues in research methods, reading fantasy books and scrolling through animal pages on social media. She became involved in the programme as the student voice on the procurement process. Sep 7, 2017

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And as Paul argues in the book, the faculty seemed to have room to be creative in how they fulfilled these competencies. They did seem to establish incentives for college administrators, department heads, and individual educators to feel personally responsible for weaving those competencies into course designs and assessments.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Consequently, The University of Edinburgh surrendered its place in the history books of science teaching on this matter (and a contingent of its students) to Liebig, and others, who were better placed to take laboratory teaching into mainstream courses. So, practical work had arrived on campus, but was not adopted into our formal offering.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Consequently, The University of Edinburgh surrendered its place in the history books of science teaching on this matter (and a contingent of its students) to Liebig, and others, who were better placed to take laboratory teaching into mainstream courses. So, practical work had arrived on campus, but was not adopted into our formal offering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Second, given the passage of anti-Black education legislation, and the banning of books critical to students in elementary and secondary public schools obtaining a comprehensive understanding of American history and Black history, now is the time to resurrect the Freedom Schools curriculum, developed in the 1960s by the Congress of Racial Equality (..)

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

All sorts of institutions that are striving to serve a more diverse student body face trade-offs ofdo we take this lower socio-economic student, knowing that it might mean that we have to give up on these two middle-income students in order to make the books balance?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 16, 2025

Recent publications include Data Justice and the Right to the City (2022, University of Edinburgh Press) and his latest book, Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change (Emejulu, Kustatscher and McGregor Eds) will be published by Policy Press in 2025. Jan 16, 2025

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