Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Delivering the Graduate Attributes “Each student at the University of Edinburgh joins us from different educational backgrounds, cultures and experiences.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The projects must involve both students and staff as participants, must be linked to at least one of the partnership agreement key themes and must be completed by 1 July 2020. For more information, please email Gillian Macintosh at Academic Services. The deadline for submission of bids is Friday 25 October. Oct 3, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 31, 2022

A student intern gathered feedback from students with disabilities and, alongside the staff project lead, Emily Taylor, co-authored a report with recommendations for improvements. The School has also shared information on the methodology and outcomes of the project across the University.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Inevitably, when students make these choices it is linked to career exploration. With the reduced flexibility and time in current postgraduate training programmes this is vital to help students make an appropriate and informed choice for traineeship.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

The range of case studies covered in the course encourages students to select topics that interest them, whilst refining skills in synthesis and written communication through succinct policy briefs. The course aims to provide multiple avenues for student engagement with sustainability in the classroom, in the field and across the university.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 19, 2023

They may lack the necessary knowledge or skills to engage with the subject matter. They can identify and recall information but struggle to make connections or apply their knowledge in a meaningful way. Enhanced Student Engagement Solo Taxonomy promotes active student engagement and ownership of learning.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

Digital Sociology MSc students engage in workshops about how sociology is communicated and how knowledge is created and curated online each year as a response to the recent ASA article. What is right or wrong or missing on Wikipedia affects the entire internet.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 Simon Fitzpatrick, a Learning Designer in EDE*, explains how it is equally important to focus on student engagement in online spaces as it is in face-to-face teaching… Recent adventures in helping academic colleagues design new MOOCs reminded me of some of the assumptions we all make when creating new online material.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We are now beginning the process of designing the syllabus and materials for the student-led project and look forward to launching it and gathering more insight from future students on its success. She is also experienced in curriculum & materials development, student engagement, and education for empowerment.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We provide the core Library services and resources that directly support the teaching and learning which takes place in the University, and we provide new ways for students to creatively engage with library collections and technology. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

For students, the nature of an academic understanding is often far from clear, but research interviews showed how visualisation could be used to bring ideas together into a satisfying personal understanding, as this final-year student did in her preparations for Finals.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 25, 2023

Additionally, 80% of students found CBCS beneficial for developing essential employability skills. These statistics and studies highlight CBCS's positive impact on enhancing educational quality by fostering student engagement, skills development, interdisciplinary learning, and aligning educational outcomes with industry needs.

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Higher Education Marketing and Communication Services Education Computers and Informational Technology 52

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2020

It is an intersectional concern that informs the way we can instil knowledge and build awareness on the way human activity impacts the natural world, no matter what discipline is being studied or taught. She works with Jenny Scoles as the Teaching Matters Deputy Editor and Student Engagement Officer. Apr 2, 2020

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This showed students’ common logical flaws and biases, how to construct effective arguments from premises and conclusions, and gave advice on effectively sourcing information. These lessons could be some of your most important university lectures if this aspect of academia was not emphasised in a student’s previous education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

I also now appreciate the importance of students engaging in thinking about their future careers as early as possible. This project involved final-year graphic design students devising a design solution for the ‘problem’ of school career guidance.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

More information can be found on the SLICCs website. In the summer SLICCs students gained academic credit for a wide range of experiences, including work placements, internships, academic summer studentships, expeditions, cultural exchanges, volunteering and self-directed research.

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Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Data-driven decision-making: Curriculum mapping provides a structured framework for data collection and analysis. Educators can use this data to identify areas of improvement, assess student progress, and make informed decisions about instructional adjustments. Strategy : Embrace flexibility in your curriculum mapping approach.

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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’.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 24, 2022

If you think this would be useful for your School (also CSE and CMVM), you will find full information at [link]. A SFHEA (EdTA), he coordinates and teaches on ELE’s academic language and literacies (ALL) provision in cooperation with Schools in CAHSS. Jan 24, 2022

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 18, 2020

Drafts chapters of the RA, developed using information gathered from across the University and the Students’ Association, were made available to all staff and students in November and December 2019 with accompanying Teaching Matters blog posts. WHERE ARE WE NOW?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

I’d recently taken on the role of senior tutor for the Geography undergraduate students and I’d decided to rethink how we run the personal tutor group meetings. Student attendance at group meetings had been patchy and many colleagues became frustrated at the lack of student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2020

It is an intersectional concern that informs the way we can instil knowledge and build awareness on the way human activity impacts the natural world, no matter what discipline is being studied or taught. She works with Jenny Scoles as the Teaching Matters Deputy Editor and Student Engagement Officer. Apr 2, 2020

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Do they worry about what they can offer these students, or is the experience entirely positive and rewarding? Opinions I have garnered informally from both students and teachers suggest they are generally happy, but I wanted to explore their views in more depth.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The other half would be semi-active, and a few students would dominate the discussion, regurgitating information from the readings either to please the tutor or save the group from awkward silences. This tutorial only seemed different because it was called a “Facilitated Group Discussion” (FGD).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

During the presentation itself, the theorists would say a few words setting the background to the paper – no need to present the papers in full as we had read them in advance – and then two students would present prepared responses. After class, we headed to a nearby café for an informal lunch and further debate.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 9, 2017

A pilot of a technique for second year students ran in Festival of Creative Learning Week 2017. For more information on this PTAS funded project, see the Badging Lab Skills website. Next steps: You can watch Zuzanna’s demonstration video here. A paper on the design and evaluation of the 1 st Year trial is available.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Educating students about open access from the beginning of their studies, helping them understand how publishing (and library subscription) works, and how they can access open access publications, will help them develop their digital and information literacy skills immensely in their future careers.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

One of the 2014 students volunteered with the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability after the course, and had the bright idea of focusing the students’ group projects on practical research topics suggested by the department, which would help inform their efforts to make the university more sustainable.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nia Obed-Arthur Nia is a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate Law student with a keen interest in jurisprudence, philosophy, and political theory, and how the three coalesce to produce and inform law and legal decisions.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

This entailed the following steps: Discovery: Obtaining as many ideas from students and staff through interviews, focus groups, and a survey. Defining: Bringing together all the information gathered from the consultations, as well as our supervisors’ and our personal ideas.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 30, 2019

SRS mapping of biodiversity and green spaces on campuses A group of four students undertaking the carbon and environmental consulting project have chosen our suggested topic and have just begun to investigate the possibility and benefit of applying natural capital accounting to University campuses and to the city of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Communities form around our courses both formally and informally, whether we know about them or not. They range from tutorial groups as formal learning communities, to all night student get-togethers around crisis moments such as a looming essay deadline. Content-independent learning puts the course community at its heart.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We hope that the EFI will also take the lead in ensuring all students are afforded this type of learning in each year of their study. Supported by Sally Kerr of the council Open Data programme.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Do they worry about what they can offer these students, or is the experience entirely positive and rewarding? Opinions I have garnered informally from both students and teachers suggest they are generally happy, but I wanted to explore their views in more depth.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As Director of Education in Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, I sat at the back of a large lecture room, in which 150 first- and second-year students in GeoSciences gathered to be informed about upcoming study opportunities abroad. We all heard three older students reflect on their own experiences abroad.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The other half would be semi-active, and a few students would dominate the discussion, regurgitating information from the readings either to please the tutor or save the group from awkward silences. This tutorial only seemed different because it was called a “Facilitated Group Discussion” (FGD).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nia Obed-Arthur Nia is a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate Law student with a keen interest in jurisprudence, philosophy, and political theory, and how the three coalesce to produce and inform law and legal decisions.

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