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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The first blog in the series by Jane Hislop and Simone Dimartino introduces LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP), a dynamic, hands-on teaching approach incorporated into Edinburgh Medical Schools Summer School in Clinical Education.

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Engaging the professional community in teaching medical students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

You might think that the teaching content in a professional vocational degree like medicine – defined by the governing body the General Medical Council ( GMC ) and detailing what a medical student should know as they exit their undergraduate programme and embark on their first day as a junior doctor – would be almost entirely prescriptive.

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Closing the degree awarding gap: How can we ensure that ethnic minority students reach their full potential at our university?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Mohini is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Scientist, Lecturer, and the lead for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Edinburgh Medical School. This is encapsulated in the Strategy 2030 , and in its vision for Curriculum Transformation. Our university wishes to provide the best possible experience for its students.

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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.

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Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs): Learning and teaching beyond disciplinary silos

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

His main teaching interest is in experiential learning at the research-teaching nexus, which he is currently exploring in a secondment to the Institute for Academic Development. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

In September 2016 Sally Brown , an assessment, learning and teaching in higher education consultant, was invited to speak. The next meeting is in May 2017 and will be looking at opportunities for staff development such as the Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Academic Practice (PgCAP) and peer observation.

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Welcome to the Nov-Dec Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Reflective Learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Simon Riley Professor Simon Riley is Professor of Experiential Student Learning, Co-Director of Teaching for the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and Director of Teaching for the Deanery of Clinical Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School. He is also Co-Lead for the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses initiative (SLICCs).