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Welcome to March-April Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Celebrating Best Practices

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Highlighting three specific innovationsTactical Decision Games, Telephone Consulting Virtual Simulation, and Shadowbox Simulationthe post details how each method helps students develop crucial decision-making skills and adapt to real-world medical scenarios without the high costs or constraints of physical simulation labs.

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Engaging the professional community in teaching medical students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Offering choice presents a series of challenges and opportunities to the curriculum developer. This is often a local clinical audit or service evaluation under the supervision of a medical consultant, which can be then used to make improvements to local medical practice.

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR)↗️ at the School of Mathematics↗️ shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration.

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR) at the School of Mathematics shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration. Image credit: Kit Daniel Searle.

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Co-created learning and teaching through the lens of the development of a University-wide course

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Defining: Bringing together all the information gathered from the consultations, as well as our supervisors’ and our personal ideas. Developing: Sketching out course themes and topics, learning objectives and outcomes, assessments, support and interaction methods.

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Career Design in a Box: Embedding Career Education in What We Already Do

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this post, Lynsey Russell-Watts, Careers Consultant for ECA, discusses her involvement in the recent Graphic Design in a Box project. Of course I believed students were developing ‘transferable skills’, but I was largely concerned with the nitty-gritty of the immediate skills they had to develop to perform well in their assessments!

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Careers consultants dip into their practitioners’ toolbox to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and prompt reflections on what is – and what could be. link] Sharon Maguire Sharon is a Careers & Employability Manager, leading a team of Careers Consultants covering Divinity, ECA, HCA, and LLC.