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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Staff new to online teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The paper is entitled “Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: Implications for academic staff development”, and you can find it in the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice. F urther sessions will be offered, including considering alternative assessment approaches.

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How to focus on pre-recorded lectures

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: unsplash, Romain Vignes, CC0 In this video post, Dr Sarah Ivory, talks about how to stay focused when using pre-recorded lectures, and at other times, like when reading articles or books. This is a re-post of the original video published in October 2020, on the Hybrid Exchange.

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Collegiate Commentary: Five facets of the Student Voice

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Simon Varwell Simon Varwell is Senior Development Consultant at sparqs , Scotland’s national agency for student engagement, where he leads on institutional support and staff development. He can be found on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Top ten tips for teaching online

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. The first of these, Teaching in online environments , is taking place on the 2nd April (f urther details and to book: [link] ). References Aitken, G., and Loads, D. and Jones, D.

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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.

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Alleviating “first day” overload: Using Moodle to induct MSc students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Distance and technology as an online student can be daunting yet, with the right resources, Moodle offers a versatile platform upon which to embed our most important and engaging materials.

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Many of the staff we’ve spoken to admit that blogging with their course is extra work for them but that the extra work is worth it for the benefits, and the genuine excitement about viewing the blogs submitted by their students. We’ll be announcing dates for our training soon on the MyEd Event Booking Channel. Look out for it!