Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 25, 2017

It may seem counterintuitive to add to the significant task of writing a thesis with more writing, particularly when the blogging style is so different, but I hope here to convince you of the benefits for PhD students. Obviously during a PhD, as with any research, there will be restrictions about what can be openly shared.

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CAPD

APRIL 29, 2024

As soon as students arrive on campus, they can begin booking appointments with anyone on our Career Advising team. Students can book appointments using Handshake. Should students come to MIT with a draft resume? Many students also come to campus with no prior resume. It depends.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

20 or students designed their own 10 credit courses over the summer ranging from research projects that explored degree-related topics more deeply to projects for volunteering or during summer internships. Apparently not, from the evidence of those who took part in the first SLICCs pilot in 2015.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g., Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten, 2014), which critically discusses and reflects on how universities can involve students in roles that, ‘actively shape and enhance their experiences of learning and teaching’ (Healey, Flint and Harrington, 2014). Happy reading!

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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

MAY 2, 2017

Vitae: Realising the potential of researchers. Gramstrup recently submitted her doctoral thesis, an in-depth case study of the American women’s interfaith book groups, the Daughters of Abraham. When she does not research consequences of religious diversity, she tutors in Religious Studies at the School of Divinity. “GRADschools.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 29, 2018

So far, our coach (Caroline Hedler, who’s bio is below) has been fully booked with 50 sessions already this term. Given these sessions are only available to 4 th year students, the current sign-ups alone represent a sizable proportion of the entire cohort. He is head of year four and course organisation for undergraduate dissertations.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This year, I attended the GCB Awards Ceremony Night 2018, and would like to share everything about it, including students’ thoughts on how studying this course has impacted their lives. Tall, classical columns, vaulted ceiling and antique books straight away created a solemn atmosphere.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 28, 2019

There’s a ton of reasons why I enjoyed the work I did, especially as a Masters student writing her dissertation towards the end of the semester. Dissertation work is often intensive and isolating; a type of work that is slow, that takes time and does not seem to cede any tangible progress despite the amount of research and effort involved.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our guest today is Michael Itzkowitz, president of the HEA Group, a higher ed consulting and research group that focuses on helping colleges be more affordable. Right as I was studying this, I happened to read a book by some guy who was running for president with a funny name. And now, here’s your host, Drumm McNaughton.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

With enrollment numbers dropping and student demographics evolving, corporate partnerships offer an opportunity to align academic programs with workforce needs , creating a win-win-win scenario for students, employers, and universities. Or are they learning things that are not Laff?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 11, 2019

My aim, to show non-philosophers that philosophy is not scary, that it is in the films we watch, the books we read, even the songs we sing, feels all the more fulfilled with every episode released. The fact that so many non-philosophers have found it accessible and enjoyable (and have even learnt something new) is beyond rewarding.

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