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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leonard Williams, the director and professor of food safety and microbiology at N.C. A&T Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, is working on developing an all-natural, antiviral disinfectant with promising results in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Tonya L. Also, we’re getting people out of the silos.

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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Drawing on his extensive academic and research experience, Prof. Zervas/2023) Awards, a High Commendation for the IChemE Global Food and Drink Award (2017), and the Best Oral Presentation Award of the 3rd CSIRO International CFD Conference (Australia). He holds a Diploma in Chem. & Computer Eng. and a PhD in Chem.

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Student presentations: An authentic assessment for online postgraduate students

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Presentation skills are an important part of higher education and while these can be assessed utilising a range of authentic assessment types, oral presentations allow students to share information, describe and discuss their research and to do so utilising suitably crafted slides.

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From the Ground Up: designing new BScs in Agricultural Science

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

CC [alljengi] Colleagues in the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security have used a new process to design degrees in Agricultural Science. She teaches animal behaviour on the Clinical Animal Behaviour online MSc and research skills on the International Animal Welfare Ethics and Law online MSc.

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Teaching about Wicked Problems

Teaching Matters Academic Support

How can we support them to develop these capacities? To start to answer these questions, I got together with some fantastic colleagues from across the university* – including our project researcher, Rebekah Tauritz – to develop a project called “ Preparing Students to Face Wicked Problems ”. Oct 4, 2018

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Mini-series: What is a living lab?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, we collaborate with researchers and students across the University, and partner with the Edinburgh Living Lab. Students work over 11 weeks to research the problem and come up with solutions, liaising with the department to ensure the context has been fully understood.

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Going back to the FUN-damentals of learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Photo credit: CC0, unsplash, Sincerely Media In this post, Kali Muhly-Alexander reflects on her learning experiences at the University and why the University needs to be creating a curriculum that includes multiple avenues to students’ success. I felt ungrateful and a bit of a failure.

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