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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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 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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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Holiday Food Drive Have your students organize a food drive to collect non-perishable items and deliver them to local food banks or shelters to support families in need. Students engage in every step from planning and promoting to collecting and delivering donations in this service-learning project ideas.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 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 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 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 Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

Student Tutor of the Year: Rosie Wu, Edinburgh College of Art (Photo credit: EUSA) This year, our Student Tutor of the Year is Rosie Wu. Based in the Edinburgh College of Art, Rosie’s teaching focuses on children’s picture books.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We split the survey into three groups – undergraduate, postgraduate taught, and postgraduate research, as these students have different guides and study experiences. We were pleased that 78 students participated in the survey. However, students might still miss out because of missing the information.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Vasileios researches and publishes on the interplay of expectations and expertise in the development of AI, robotics, and internet technologies, with further interests in cybernetics, media theory, invented religions, oriental and continental philosophy, community-led initiatives, and art. scheme at the Institute of Academic Development.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Vasileios researches and publishes on the interplay of expectations and expertise in the development of AI, robotics, and internet technologies, with further interests in cybernetics, media theory, invented religions, oriental and continental philosophy, community-led initiatives, and art. scheme at the Institute of Academic Development.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 19, 2024

It strengthened my commitment to my research participants, because it made me feel the true urgency of the work I was doing. Research shows that pregnancy and the postpartum stage literally alters women’s brain composition to heighten attunement to baby’s needs. New York, David Zwirner Books. It was my secret garden.

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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 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 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 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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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 Online Learning

JUNE 1, 2021

This resource draws on research at the intersection of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Digital Education, and Film and Media Studies. The ways that students emotionally experience digital video impacts the approach they take to learning and ultimately the outcomes of that learning. Colville, WA: Optimal Books.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Karen Gravett (Surrey), in her talk (“Assemblages of belonging in the digital university”) continued along a relational plane of inquiry, approaching ideas of materiality and human connection in digital educational environments through her research examining student engagement, belonging, and mattering in higher education.

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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 Online Learning

JULY 18, 2024

What next for the book and its content? Nikki: I have the 2nd edition ready to go! Her research examines communication in musical performance. Nikki delivers courses to all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Edinburgh and globally via the long-standing Massive Open Online Course, Fundamentals of Music Theory.

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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 Academic Support

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Over the past two years, my co-author, Leo Lambert, and I interviewed nearly 400 people across American higher education including more than 200 students as well as academic staff and leaders from 28 diverse institutions. Professor Peter Felten, Learning & Teaching Conference 2019. Photo credit: A Bovill.

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