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Reflection and metacognition for veterinary students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The aim of the course is to provide general support and advice on personal and professional development, including the opportunity for students to consider their own weaknesses and strengths. All students who are repeating a year or part-year are required to take this course and must pass in order to progress.

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Careers by Design: Scottish Government’s Career Review

Teaching Matters Student Employment

On balance, in my view, the recommendations from the Scottish Government’s recent work on careers support, ‘Careers by Design’ , is definitely more blessing than curse. When government’s policy eye turns in your direction, it can be a mixed blessing.

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How can our Graduate Attributes inform programme and course development? Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide. Gavin co-leads the development of SLICCs institution-wide with Simon.

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Development of graduate attributes in online distance learning students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

iStock [BrianAJackson] Several previous posts on Teaching Matters have focused on graduate attributes – the skills, abilities, attitudes and approaches that students develop “through meaningful experiences and the processes of learning and reflection” (from Definition: what are Graduate Attributes? ).

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The Living Lab: Interdisciplinary, problem-based learning in the city

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

These problems oblige students to develop their own problem definition capabilities, and make their own prioritisation of relevant knowledge. A key element of our approach, and of problem-based learning , is the choice of an ‘ill defined’ problem, often termed a ‘ wicked problem’.

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What even is a University anyway?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

However, most importantly, they state that these areas should have freedom to change in the next five years as the world changes. To answer their initial question at the outset of their talk – What is a university even anyway?

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Experiential learning and distance learning students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Did those experiences impact your connection to the university as online students? Mteeve: I would definitely say so – as online students, our connection to the university can sometimes feel limited. It naturally instilled critical and analytical thinking into the learning process, which is amazing.