Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We’ll also move a number of copies of ‘Essential’ print books to Reserve or Short Loan and link copyright-compliant scans to lists. Students benefit from having access to sufficient quantities of print books or online access, when it’s available. Where possible, key texts are provided digitally, as e‐books or copyright‐compliant scans.

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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.

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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. We contributed information to the desk-based research part of this study.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They can also be a useful resource for researchers looking to better understand the relationship between teaching practices and learning. These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

I was thinking about this again recently when I attended an event on Developing Pedagogical Expertise Across Institutions on the 27 th of September at Imperial College, London. Professor Carol Evans gave a thought-provoking presentation about ‘Scaling up Research-informed Integrated Assessment Practices’. Nov 7, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!) This can also be downloaded as an Open Access e-book from Sense Publishers. Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

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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. Sep 27, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

Nina herself (along with Hazel Christie, from IAD) has researched the use of blogs in teaching and learning as part of a PTAS grant and has recorded a podcast episode for our mini-series (released today). We’ll be announcing dates for our training soon on the MyEd Event Booking Channel. 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

The Learn site currently contains seven folders: solutions to common problems; academic skills; getting the most of your assessment and feedback; tools to support learning and research; student support and the PT system; a careers roadmap; and information on peer support.

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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 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 few of my classmates told me they thought I should get tested for a behavioral disorder because, really, what other reason could there be for my not being able to focus for three hours as a renowned academic droned on and on about their latest research findings. I felt ungrateful and a bit of a failure.

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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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Higher Ed Connects: Curriculum

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

He teaches courses in the areas of moral philosophy, the ethics of war, political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion, and his research focuses on ethical theory, the ethics of war, and higher education.

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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 Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

During this hands-on activity, students carefully unroll replicas of picture scrolls from the late Heian period in the Main Librarys rare book section. She is currently working on a kanji experiential learning project and conducting research on visual media discourse.

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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. And oftentimes, whether they don’t have time, there’s a lot going on.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Some use content to teach skills, such as the Sociology department’s research training course, Designing and Doing Social Research which I organise. The book introduces students to sociological ideas. Find out more: Curriculum Theory and Practice on the infed website Angus Bancroft Angus is a lecturer in Sociology.

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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. In the case of techno-optimism, he discussed the fact that there are some researchers who believe that death is a disease that can be cured, leading to immortality. Ethical boundaries. Labor and automation anxiety.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 16, 2025

I was searching for a way to truly engage my students with their learning and help them develop an ethical and sustainable mindset that would empower them to take positive and responsible actions as consumers and as future marketers. Jan 16, 2025

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

In his research, Carleton College economics professor Nathan Grawe argues that the financial crisis of 2008 will lead to a major tsunami for higher education in 2026. Researchers collected data from the students CatCard IDs, which can be used at numerous campus locations, including residence halls, labs, and the Student Union Memorial Center.

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