Campus Groups

AUGUST 2, 2022

We know how critical the fall is for student engagement. It is when new students immerse themselves in college life and returning students renew with campus activities and traditions. This article outlines 5 student engagement strategies for the fall.

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SRHE

AUGUST 20, 2024

by Naomi Winstone and David Carless Over the past few years, feedback research and practice in higher education have experienced sustained research interest and significant advancements. In 2019, we published a book in the SRHE series titled Designing Effective Feedback Processes in Higher Education: A Learning-Focused Approach.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 23, 2022

Image credit: Lindsay Jack In this post, Lindsay Jack, Amy Lawton, and Elisabeth Barlow from Edinburgh Law School show the benefits of introducing extra-curricular projects, such as a book club, into Schools at the University. Law students have often said that they have little time to read outwith their course materials.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Wesley Erwin, III , Indiana University Bloomington Keywords: Pedagogy, Relationship-Rich Education, Engaged Learning Key Statement: Meaningful teaching and learning should include evidence-based, relationship-rich education tailored to respective contexts. Increased content retention is an additional benefit of collaborative quizzes.

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Experiential Learning Depot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

When students engage with Hispanic Heritage Month through PBL, the outcomes of their work resonate far beyond the designated month itself. For example, my students do a book fair Hispanic Heritage Month project every year. Teams create exhibits for a virtual Hispanic Heritage book fair. Enroll now for free!

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 6, 2025

Credit: Pixabay In this explorative post, Dr. Kirsten Cowan, a dedicated researcher and educator at The University of Edinburgh’s Business School, delves into the transformative potential of Virtual Reality (VR) in classroom settings.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Photo credit: Ed Robertson, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Joséphine Foucher introduces November-December’s Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Books that inspire our teaching. Joséphine Foucher is Teaching Matters’ Deputy Editor and Student Engagement Officer. For this theme, we wanted to try something different.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

Given my research background, I cannot claim authority in teaching and pedagogy research. Technology and writing centers, counseling services, and student health centers go unvisited (Medina & Posadas, 2012). Students may ask (silently or otherwise) why a particular course unit matters. Penguin Books.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research. General discussion ensued.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Credit: EPSRC Proteus In this post, Dr Helen Szoor-McElhinney, an Engagement Strategist in the Deanery of Clinical Sciences, showcases the University of Edinburgh’s first Interdisciplinary Health and Wellbeing Science Shop, Our Health. What health research agendas would they set if they could?

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Parchment

JANUARY 7, 2025

Michelle Van Noy, Director of the Education & Employment Research Center at Rutgers University. She shares a framework for non-degree credential quality and highlights the research around outcomes for non-degree credential attainers. You’re doing a lot of research in non-degree or non-credit credentials and quality and value.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

There were countless opportunities for undergraduates to socialise—drinking nights, hiking trips, art sessions, and more—but these rarely offered the chance to connect with professors, PhD students, or other university staff. We organised trivia rounds, booked spaces, promoted the event, and ordered a wide variety of games.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

.” This class employs a flipped learning approach, meaning students are expected to be familiar with handling picture scrolls before the session. During this hands-on activity, students carefully unroll replicas of picture scrolls from the late Heian period in the Main Librarys rare book section.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In this post, Dr Geoff Bromiley, a Reader in Experimental Geoscience within the School of GeoSciences, describes an inspiring experience of teaching-led research… Research-led teaching is something we often hear about at university. We rightly flag this as a great reason why students should study at The University of Edinburgh.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 14, 2024

One of the challenges of teaching about student affairs assessment over the past few years is the rapid changes within the student affairs assessment field, students affairs, higher education and our society. Research methods and applications for student affairs. Sincerely, Adam Author: Adam McCready, Ph.D.,

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2023

He is a Widening Participation manager, practitioner and researcher at The University of Edinburgh. These projects along with his teaching and research are centred around a number of areas of interest that span from primary education through secondary, further and higher education. scheme at the Institute of Academic Development.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. The focus groups had revealed students felt emails were “often long-winded and full of academic jargon that make them hard to read,” Whittington-Studer shares.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

What the hub includes: Resources include training links, research articles, book lists, podcast suggestions and recommended websites. How will students engage? It is a place for everything related to neurodiversity, from instructor resources and research articles to neurodiversity events.”

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Photo credit: Cytonn Photography, Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, Catherine Bovill introduces the new 2021-22 Student Partnership Agreement and Funding Scheme and its three key areas of focus. Dr Bovill is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development. Nov 15, 2021

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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CAPD

APRIL 7, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR EXPERIENTIAL ETHICS 2023: APPLICATION DUE APRIL 15 Interning for a big tech company or working in a research lab this summer? Students engage in small-group conversations about their own values as well as the moral, social, and political dimensions of their summer experiences.

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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. Content-independent learning implies a different direction, where students and teachers work from their skills towards content. The book introduces students to sociological ideas.

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 18, 2024

The focus of the episode is her book, Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments: A Practical Resource for Higher Education Faculty. Christine is the author of numerous books and articles related to teaching and learning. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn about culturally affirming and meaningful assignments.

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

The best—and probably only—approach is going to be developing policies where students are allowed to use AI tools to do their research, while ensuring that they continue to synthesize information and learn during the process, rather than simply cheat on their assignments.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

These inspiring examples brought to mind an ARU project entitled Seeing Myself, which saw students from diverse backgrounds co-create a series of workshops, short films and motivational talks by ARU alumni, facilitated by Karen Sturt, Student Engagement Manager in the Faculty of Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

These inspiring examples brought to mind an ARU project entitled Seeing Myself, which saw students from diverse backgrounds co-create a series of workshops, short films and motivational talks by ARU alumni, facilitated by Karen Sturt, Student Engagement Manager in the Faculty of Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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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 Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Professor Carol Evans gave a thought-provoking presentation about ‘Scaling up Research-informed Integrated Assessment Practices’. I would add to this that course and programme designs that have worked well with one cohort of students might well need to be adapted for the particular diversity of the next cohort. Nov 7, 2019

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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

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? Dec 20, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 22, 2024

Students engaged in ASA DataFest hackathon In this extra post, Serveh Sharifi, Vanda Inacio, Ozan Evkaya, and Amanda Lenzi, academics from the School of Mathematics, share their experience and insights on hosting the American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest 2024 at The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Singapore: Springer Dr Karen Gravett is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Surrey Institute of Education at the University of Surrey, UK, where her research focuses on the theory-practice of higher education, and explores the areas of student engagement, belonging, and relational pedagogies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 6, 2023

Over two days in June, the Institute for Academic Development hosted the sixth annual Learning and Teaching Conference , ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice’ The first day was in-person and live-streamed, and the second was fully online. Jul 6, 2023

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

He talks about the increasing scope these technologies provide for diverse yet privileged researchers from across the world. Vasileios is also a book, vinyl, beer cap, and mouth harp collector – using the latter instrument to invite students back from class break. scheme at the Institute of Academic Development.

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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 Online Learning

JUNE 8, 2021

Photo credit: iStock CC0 In this post, Margaret MacDougall and Sophia Wong Ching Hwai share their thoughts on implementing per-session feedback as an effective way of creating a sense of partnership between students and instructors and enhancing student engagement.

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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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