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Course and Programme Design: Cycling through the ELDeR process

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Learning design is the process of designing learning experiences (planning, structuring, sequencing) through facilitated activities that are pedagogically informed, explicit, and make better use of technologies in teaching.

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Reflections on the use of personae in learning design activities

Teaching Matters Online Learning

designing induction events for undergraduates). We will continue to use this combination of persona approaches because it allows us to initiate conversations about learning design with academic staff, which extend beyond content and beyond the students we know.

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Service Excellence Programme: Programme and Course Information Management (PCIM)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

For further information about the PCIM project ,and details of our Roadshow events, please see the SA&S wiki. If you would like to share your ideas or experiences, please contact SEP.SAS@ed.ac.uk.

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Many of the staff we’ve spoken to admit that blogging with their course is extra work for them but that the extra work is worth it for the benefits, and the genuine excitement about viewing the blogs submitted by their students. We’ll be announcing dates for our training soon on the MyEd Event Booking Channel. Look out for it!

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Using Learn to Support Students for Success

Teaching Matters Academic Support

We can use announcements to advertise School events and opportunities (no more emails getting lost). We are already seeing the benefits of this system. Support for Success in LLC can act as a focal point for that all-important first year Personal Tutor meeting.

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A student’s experience of the Learning and Teaching Conference 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The vet school is unique in that many staff give lectures and then are interacted with again in practical classes and/or in the hospital. There are also staff at social events at the school, staff-student collaboration through UCVME activities , and various opportunities to express opinions to staff.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

It builds on the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures (FILL) developed by Wood et al. 2016), which characterises lectures by recording the type of activity taking place and producing a second-by-second timeline of events. FILL was designed with a focus on ‘Peer Instruction’ (Mazur, 1999).