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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. The University avoided the trap of seeing employability as solely a Careers Service responsibility, and instead used this funding to support an institution-wide and collaborative approach.

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The Reflection Toolkit: Supporting effective reflection

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Image credit: The Reflection Toolkit , The University of Edinburgh In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond. You can reach us at Gavin.McCabe@ed.ac.uk.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The course staff feel that a more private blog is a good way for students to express ideas and reflect on them (in a safe space), and really helps the course staff and the student to connect. Dr Simon Riley is using it in part of the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) project.

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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

ACJ demonstrates much greater reliability in large-volume assessment when using a distributed team of assessors and also enables high numbers of students to efficiently receive valuable feedback from several assessors, whether used for staff assessing students or student peer assessment. Psychological Review 34.

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High-Outcome Internships in Higher Ed: Bridge the Workforce Gap and Enhance Student Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 161 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Daniel Nivern

The Change Leader, Inc.

He is also the founder of CRCC Asia, a company that has helped over 10,000 students to complete internships in Asia. About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton, the host of Changing Higher Ed ®, is a consultant to higher ed institutions in governance, accreditation, strategy and change, and mergers. Learn more at changinghighered.com.