Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An opportunity for students to gain developmental, transferable skills by learning outside the library and the lecture theatre from the start. 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’.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Photo credit: India trek students Dr Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Business School, talks to Teaching Matters about the huge challenges we are facing in HE to help students engage with problems that are truly relevant – especially the complex issues around social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

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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. Dec 20, 2018

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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 Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. 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.

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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 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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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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 16, 2025

Key to developing a sustainability mindset is deep learning and student-produced podcasts are argued to encourage deep learning. Not only that, research shows that student podcasting is very successful at encouraging active learning and knowledge creation , enhancing student engagement, and developing transferrable skills.

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