Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Four research questions were developed. Erin Dunlop Velez, director of educational research at RTI International and one of the report’s authors. If you’re going to a public flagship, you’re probably getting a tuition waiver and some kind of stipend because you’re teaching or doing research,” said Velez.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Collaborative efforts could include tutoring programs, curriculum development, and targeted interventions designed to improve student outcomes in mathematics. In the context of education, particularly in mathematics, the significance of effective teaching cannot be overstated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

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. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 12, 2023

What is Curriculum Development? Understanding the Fundamentals editor Tue, 06/13/2023 - 00:09 Curriculum development is critical in structuring educational programs and ensuring better learning outcomes. What is Curriculum Development?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Inspired by existing research and harnessing the power of structured interactive sessions, she introduces a set of transformative practices aimed at making each student feel valued and integral to the learning community. Measurement and Evaluation in Counselling and Development, 43, 48-65. Rosenberg, M., & McCullough, B.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 3, 2024

Faculty described feeling similarly unsure of curriculum development, both in terms of what prior knowledge students might have and what could be considered the “core” topics of higher education assessment.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

I was thinking about this again recently when I attended an event on Developing Pedagogical Expertise Across Institutions on the 27 th of September at Imperial College, London. Professor Carol Evans gave a thought-provoking presentation about ‘Scaling up Research-informed Integrated Assessment Practices’. Nov 7, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Higher education in the UK is experienced differently by our diverse student cohorts. Vicky Gunn: Conceptualising the disciplines’ role in inclusive teaching practice Higher Education needs to foster disciplinary sameness and transformation simultaneously. Teaching in Higher Education. 16 (6), 669-679.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, for practical reasons, such as high student to staff ratios and constraints on learning spaces and timetabling, feedback received by students in UK higher education tends to be summative (assessment of learning) rather than formative (assessment for learning).

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Creatrix Campus

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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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 19, 2023

Designing Effective Learning Outcomes with Solo Taxonomy in Higher Education editor Mon, 06/19/2023 - 06:45 Education plays a pivotal role in shaping the knowledge, skills, and competencies of students, and learning outcomes serve as a critical component of the educational process. What is Solo Taxonomy?

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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 Student Employment

OCTOBER 30, 2018

My engagement practice provided me with many opportunities to observe researchers from different disciplines working together as a cohesive team to research some of the most urgent medical challenges of our time. What health research agendas would they set if they could?

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities. For these reasons, I selected this as the measure of choice utilized within my research. .

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It is difficult to draw just one conclusion from the research I have read. Qualitative research done by James Lamb, Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, highlighted some of the things that still makes students turn up to their lectures: the human element. The Higher Education Academy.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Research-led teaching and learning This month, I have found defining research-led teaching and learning quite tricky as there seem to be a few interpretations of what it means in HE. Conversely, integrating research and teaching can be immensely rewarding for academics.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 20, 2023

Higher education has long been regarded as a pathway to success and the “middle class,” promising personal and professional growth opportunities. Clark Kerr’s California Experiment exacerbated this in the 1960s, transforming higher education in California and the United States.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He leads the Timely Approximations Group, which develops simplified models of complex physical systems. His research explores the application of such surrogate models in conjunction with machine learning towards tackling computational problems in a variety of applications including computer graphics, robotics and protein design.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2025

Max shares insights into how higher ed leaders can improve marketing ROI , differentiate their programs, and shift from reactive recruitment to strategic, data-informed planning that supports sustainable enrollment growth. These changes arent just academictheyre essential to effective program promotion and growth.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Image Credit: Pixabay In this post, Dr Noel Entwistle introduces crucial insights gathered from his research into student learning dynamics at The University of Edinburgh. Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Many aspects of co-creation of the curriculum can also advance characteristics that students perceive as excellence in teaching and student support, as we found in previous research drawing on the Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Teaching Awards data (Lubicz-Nawrocka & Bunting, 2018). Higher Education, 71 (2), 195-208.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The question is how to measure and quantify—and ultimately justify and act upon—the value of non-STEM majors to students, employers, and the governments that fund much of higher education. Such information can inform a college or university’s curriculum choices, hiring, and, yes, marketing strategy. New tools.

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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. Jan 10, 2019

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JULY 16, 2024

Ankita Chattopadhyay is a recent graduate with an MSc by Research (MScR) in Infection Medicine (Biomedical Sciences). Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design. Some staff fear losing control over curriculum and teaching methods. link] Bovill, C.,

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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.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 29, 2018

This week sees the launch of the second instance of the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the edX platform. Known as ‘ SOCRMx ’, this course is free and openly accessible to learners across the globe, and provides eight weeks of stimulating materials related to conducting social science research.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This post is Part 1 of 2, and belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in Higher Education. Since the global launch of chat-based access to generative large-language models (most notably, ChatGPT), a sense of technological and moral panic set in across the education sector.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 16, 2018

Colleges and universities are not known for making rapid changes, although many who work in higher education especially faculty members — have strong feelings about the ways others need to change. Yet with change happening so quickly and in so many ways, the role of faculty members has to change.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on remote teaching’ post, Yi-Shan Tsai, research associate at the School of Informatics, talks about the advantages and challenges of blended learning design and what questions to consider when adopting this approach. The course begins on 11 May on FutureLearn.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

Image Credit: Pixabay In this post, Prof Noel Entwistle introduces crucial insights gathered from his research into student learning dynamics at The University of Edinburgh. Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 6, 2018

Recent assignment titles have included: ‘A Conversation of Movement using Algorithms and Digital Space in Education’, ‘Remixed: Theory and Authorship in Online Learning Communities’, ‘The Future of Higher Education’ and the ‘Big Data Imaginary’. Gloucester: Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 25, 2022

For example, based on rigorous research into student learning 40 years ago, Astin claimed that: The amount of student learning and personal development associated with any educational program is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of student involvement in that program. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023-1037.

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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. Engström, A. &

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We have continued to keep an eye on new research being published in the sector in addition to commissioning and funding lecture recording research at the University through our Engagement and Evaluation group (much of it already covered in this mini-series). That’s okay.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Constructive alignment as a principle was ‘generalised from the context of in-service teacher education’, [3] leaving one to wonder whether Biggs’ argument might have been any different had the title of his 1996 article been ‘Enhancing Learning (instead of teaching ) through constructive alignment’? The Higher Education Academy. [2]

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