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Nominations Open for the Excellence in Accounting Ethics Education Award

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

AWARD CRITERIA Examples of innovative techniques/methods include, but are not limited to: Developing a case, video, audio, or other teaching techniques that can be used to integrate ethics into the accounting curriculum. Developing a new course in accounting ethics including learning objectives and assessment techniques.

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“Toybox” tools that soften the mathematical blow

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Credit; Pixabay, bomei615, CC0 At the University’s Learning and Teaching Conference in June, Alan Murray, Professor of Neural Electronics, presented a ‘Did you know?’ Alan Murray Alan Murray is Professor of Neural Electronics and Assistant Principal, Academic Support at the University of Edinburgh.

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Developing reflection in the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

There are a variety of approaches and opportunities for reflection within the curriculum, yet students do find it challenging to move from describing accounts of their experiences; to be more critically reflective of the experience and the contribution to their future learning. So what forms does reflection take?

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Recapturing the excitement of lectures

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Other lecturers are using electronic voting systems (Bates, Howie & Murphy, 2006), social media (Ross, 2016) and ‘technology enhanced active learning spaces’ (Roger, Ney & Liote, 2016) to enhance the level of engagement in the subject and to promote paired and small group working in large classes. References Bates, S.P., Howie, K. &

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From students to scientists: The impact of interactive engagement in lectures

Teaching Matters Student Employment

By adapting a lecture observation tool, the interactivity of lecture blocks could be measured, and, combined with the use of an electronic questionnaire sent out to students, I could measure the perceived effectiveness of interactive engagement in lectures.

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Does lecture capture enhance learning?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We also trialled the Top Hat electronic voting system in the lectures. The course was the fourth most viewed in the University, with 2147 individual views and a total of 765 viewing hours (on average 5 hours per student), outperforming many courses with larger cohorts.

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How Virtual Reality is Being Used in Curriculum to Develop Empathy

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

Her reporting is focused in the Middle East region where she majored in print and electronic journalism. The post How Virtual Reality is Being Used in Curriculum to Develop Empathy appeared first on HIGHER ED CONNECTS.