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JUNE 25, 2023

How the Choice Based Credit System can Improve the Quality of Higher Education in India editor Mon, 06/26/2023 - 01:39 A robust and high-quality higher education system plays a vital role in the advancement and prosperity of any nation in today's rapidly changing world. What is a Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS)?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. One might guess this presents an administrative challenge. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 29, 2020

However, the broad nature of EL has meant that it is only captured in limited frameworks, with the result that EL techniques and advantages are employed only marginally in higher education. This can serve as guidance for designing and facilitating more ‘experiential’ courses in higher education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Unlike search engines like Google, which provide multiple sources for cross-referencing, GenAI tools typically generate a single response that may lack neutrality; they may unintentionally reinforce societal biases and present misinformation with the same level of confidence as accurate information. Feb 6, 2025

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The research findings presented below draw from analysis of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) 2016 Canadian Reference group, which included 42,642 students from 42 postsecondary institutions (colleges and universities) across Canada (ACHA, 2016; Ezekiel, In Press). Mitigating Barriers. student leaders, administrative leaders).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 10, 2019

There is an increasing emphasis in higher education on promoting student voice and engagement, positioning students as partners in the teaching and learning process. Curriculum Co-Creation: Challenges Engaging students in curriculum development can be both empowering and disempowering.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

In this post, Dr Catherine Bovill summarises her keynote talk presented at the Learning and Teaching Conference: “Shaping the future curriculum with students” This post is part of the Hot Topic: Learning and Teaching Conference 2022. 1984) Student involvement: A developmental theory for higher education.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a psychology student explained: [The tutor] keeps my interest alive by presenting, not only the content, but also what matters for her. He was Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Co-ordinating Editor of Higher Education. Experiences, personal understanding, knowledge – it’s all there.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We took the opportunity presented by the Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) to engage IFP alumni in the construction of this student-led project. Several themes arose from these initial focus groups, including writing and presentation practice, transferability of skills, and criticality and analysis.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jan 17, 2022

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

The students in my group were committed and motivated, developing innovative ideas and high-quality outputs. It was gratifying to see their contributions shape course design and curriculum development.” This change boosted my confidence in presenting data. I feel that I can have a voice in shaping my curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Student and staff co-creation has gained both popularity and traction within higher education over the last five to ten years as colleagues have become increasingly aware of the benefits of bringing students’ perspectives into discussions and decisions about learning. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037. link] Bovill, C.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 7, 2019

However, the emphasis is on the development of learning through group interaction and moving beyond these reflective questions. Students are encouraged to divide up the reading, making detailed notes, and presenting the papers they have read to the group. McLean, (2014). The Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report. APS Group: Scotland.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The top through groups after their successful presentations with industry partner, Sopria Steri. Therefore, teachers in higher education have the important responsibility of equipping students for work life after university. Image credit: Kit Daniel Searle. This is a theme which I embed in my course.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Active Learning in Higher Education 6 (1) 17-31. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 33 (2) 209-223. 2016) Teaching spaces design and development at LSE: an evaluation of impact on teaching and learning. 2016) Teaching spaces design and development at LSE: an evaluation of impact on teaching and learning.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

Cathy: Since the final presentations by the students we have ensured the student reports have been shared among a range of groups. The University’s Curriculum Transformation Project Student Engagement Strategy group have discussed how some of the ideas might be taken forward.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It is reassuring, therefore, to note the current widespread interest in active learning methods in STEM Higher Education. Course questionnaire feedback (including those not present during the session) was less enthusiastic. Clearly lack of engagement or even surface engagement in this type of learning simply doesn’t work.

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In a fast-paced world where rising human relation issues are often misrepresented or misinterpreted, higher education institutions are moving forward to diversify teaching methods when introducing these issues. Because students inhabit an invisible self in such an experience, they may be driven to present subjective anxieties.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

program , which saw us developing a course prototype delivered in the form of a website , a Learn page, and a final presentation. Developing: Sketching out course themes and topics, learning objectives and outcomes, assessments, support and interaction methods. This was under the University’s Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 27, 2017

In September 2016 Sally Brown , an assessment, learning and teaching in higher education consultant, was invited to speak. You can find her on Twitter @jilly_mackay Hazel Marzetti Hazel Marzetti is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Academic Development focussing on higher education research.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

and includes a video of their presentation at McEwan Hall. Ellen was EUSA President 20/22, and Tara was EUSA Vice President Education 21/22. Photo credit: Allan Bovill This post summarises Ellen MacRae and Tara Gold’s keynote talk: What even is a University anyway? ,

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a psychology student explained: [The tutor] keeps my interest alive by presenting, not only the content, but also what matters for her. He was Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Co-ordinating Editor of Higher Education. Experiences, personal understanding, knowledge – it’s all there.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Many posts in this series were featured as presentations and posters at the University’s Learning and Teaching Conference 2021. Today, the higher education system faces a similar situation once more, with a worldwide shift to a more digital, fluid and connected way of living. References Boud, D., and Hegarty-Hazel, E.,

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Higher Ed Connects: Curriculum

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The following examples from several campuses around the country demonstrate the possibility of navigating this tension, and reflect some of the trends occurring in higher education curricular change. . The University of Virginia . He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, an M.A.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Experiential education: Defining features for curriculum and pedagogy (23 August 2018) Dr Simon Beames, a senior lecturer in Outdoor Learning at Moray House School of Education, along with his colleagues, presents a theoretical framework of experiential education that is centred around six defining features.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We took the opportunity presented by the Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) to engage IFP alumni in the construction of this student-led project. Several themes arose from these initial focus groups, including writing and presentation practice, transferability of skills, and criticality and analysis.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Student and staff co-creation has gained both popularity and traction within higher education over the last five to ten years as colleagues have become increasingly aware of the benefits of bringing students’ perspectives into discussions and decisions about learning. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037. link] Bovill, C.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Furthermore, we hope they will gain a near-peer role model with our student, who is currently in higher education. The aim is also to bring the school class to the university to present their cultural experience project, as widening participation and community outreach. Photo credit: Annette Götzkes.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Reflection is critical for our development as individual practitioners in higher education, as collective departments, and as a whole institution. Its goal is to surface learning about oneself and the situation, and to bring meaning to it in order to inform the present and the future.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Role-playing exercises, such as the one presented here, demonstrate the ability to put into practice authentic assessment to promote active learning (Oberle, 2004) and, in our students, has been shown to promote a dynamic, student-centred learning environment. Higher Education Research & Development , 27(1), pp.55-67.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A hot topic right now is lecture recording , and an analysis of its use was presented at the conference. This year, Vikky will be applying for Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. A Mixed Method Analysis of NSS 2016 Free Text Data – Jill MacKay 3B: What Question? Nov 13, 2018

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

OERs have been part of the higher education landscape for some time, but increasingly we are seeing discussions about open practice (Cronin 2017) and how to support teachers, researchers and students to work in ways that encourage collaboration, the sharing of content and processes, and sensitivity to context of knowledge creation and use.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

Without changing much, I could have helped them to articulate how their group presentations, research projects and seminar participation developed and demonstrated a range of valuable skills, or how their skills in close reading and written communication would be essential in decoding job advertisements and responding to them.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Catherine Bovill Dr Catherine Bovill is Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), University of Edinburgh, Visiting Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway and Visiting Fellow at the University of Winchester, UK and previously a Fulbright Scholar. Nov 15, 2021

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As a result, staff time will not be wasted updating and publishing the same information in multiple locations reducing the risk of inconsistent information being presented to students. Sarah has previously worked in student support leadership roles completing a Masters in Education (Leadership and Management).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Most of the literature to date (including this paper) presents descriptive and/or exploratory work, largely fuelled by the key academic concern surrounding the impact of lecture capture on attendance. Higher Education , 1-19, [link]. Higher Education. Nordmann, E., Irwin, A., & Comber, D.

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