Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

She provides pedagogical advice and develops innovative approaches for CPD resources, MOOCs, and online MSc programmes. Great course, based on scientific facts, not on ideology, I loved it!”- Her research interests include, e-professionalism, digital education, and research ethics.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Build on the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, and support the development of new skills and intentional approaches as more change unfolds with the ongoing influence of the pandemic. Connect pedagogy, assessment and digital technology in curriculum development. Live, online teaching was new for many colleagues.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While such a licence is incredibly helpful, it has its limits. In addition to the CLA licence, it is possible for teachers to use literature that was published Open Access, under a Creative Commons licence or that is out of copyright.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students. Encouraging students to draw their own mind maps in a class or tutorial, followed by discussion among other students, helps them to see connections in developing an understanding.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2019

Advice and resources (including examples) to help staff collect mid-course feedback from students can be found on the Institute for Academic Development’s website. Importantly, existing students on the course can benefit from any actions that may be taken, which helps to reinforce to students the value of giving feedback.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Developed to support both students and staff, it now receives well over a million visits a year and its impact is extending within and beyond higher education. The Reflection Toolkit targets two audiences – reflectors and facilitators of others’ reflection – recognising that students and staff can occupy both roles.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 19, 2017

And you would be right, but you probably see the problem already. Yes, this information is out there. But it is spread all over the place, and in some cases it is very hard to find. Moreover, that information is not always presented in a particularly engaging way. And so Support for Success in LLC was born. So what does it look like?

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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 Academic Support

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We are certainly in need of more peer support among students and teaching staff. We are certainly in need of more peer support among students and teaching staff. The aim: to reduce the fear of statistics, or as some may say ‘staDistics’. We need to provide a respectful environment for students learning at their own pace.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

I think this is a very useful point when thinking about what it means to implement lecture recording at scale: When new teachers join universities they are exposed to teacher development but it is unclear how widespread and/or consistent that development is. That’s okay.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 25, 2017

Starring Diploma staff, tutors and some former students and ably directed, filmed and edited by Neil Davidson and Dominic Suominem from Law School Information Services (IS), the video is a 15 minute “romp” through a Diploma workshop of the worst kind! (We

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 13, 2019

The difference now is that the new platform is an integrated and centrally run service with both technical and pedagogical support, and a growing community of interested and knowledgeable staff who can make suggestions and give advice. The other aspects of this new blogs.ed via the comment function) with peers, tutors and guest experts.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is in this context that the University was awarded its first Key Action 203 Strategic Partnership funding by the European Commission in 2017 to develop the Network for Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship (NICE) in collaboration with 7 other European universities*.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Hosted by Blackboard, and in line with what many other universities do, this will mean patches and updates can be applied as they become available and with less need for downtime. What does that mean for us, the users? It means a more robust, resilient, and secure learning environment for everyone at the University.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

The course staff feel that a more private blog is a good way for students to express ideas and reflect on them (in a safe space), and really helps the course staff and the student to connect. Students develop their own set of personal and professional skills and attributes, and often use a blog to reflect on their progress.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This creation of a community at the school promotes more open conversation between staff and students, and has led to some unique collaboration. As was found with this analysis, I like the idea of having lecture recording as a safety net if I need to miss class, but I also share staff concerns about decreasing attendance.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I don’t think either staff or students have quite got it completely right. Staff and students walk into a lecture hall to create learning. The one thing I’ve really taken away from this project is that as a university we need to come to a common understanding of what happens in a lecture.

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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 Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Characterising lectures We helped to develop FILL+, a tool for characterising lectures by recording the activities that take place as seen from the student’s perspective. It builds on the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures (FILL) developed by Wood et al. That is, 95.6% This figure increases to 97.1%

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

Last year 74% of our 2438 audience members said they learnt something new, and 83% said they would recommend the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas to a friend. From formal emails and meetings to mass tweeting and shameless flyering, my time working with CoDI has involved promoting both learning and teaching in ways I never imagined.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

EMBED, CC0 Efficiency vs. staff workload and pedagogical benefits It is also noted that in blended learning scenarios, students can make a better use of classroom time for deep learning through collaborative work and face-to-face interactions with the instructor. This issue can be especially pronounced in rural areas. Reference Alexander, B.,

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Open access and open education both stress the importance of making knowledge available for individuals around the world, regardless of wealth or status ( Elder 2020 ). Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. You can search this to find OA repositories relevant to your field.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 8, 2019

Many described how writing the reflection affected them personally: Writing (and rewriting) this report has taught me to try and understand myself as well as others. Seeing as I was expected to reflect on my own participation, I was more inclined to prepare and contribute, as it made me more conscious of my actions.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

For more information, please email Gillian Macintosh at Academic Services. 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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

PCIM aims to deliver a golden copy of all course and programme information to be used by both prospective and current students and staff. 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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. At times, this can lead to operational silos, and present seemingly natural barriers which are difficult to overcome.

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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 Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This creation of a community at the school promotes more open conversation between staff and students, and has led to some unique collaboration. As was found with this analysis, I like the idea of having lecture recording as a safety net if I need to miss class, but I also share staff concerns about decreasing attendance.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. At times, this can lead to operational silos, and present seemingly natural barriers which are difficult to overcome.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

We encourage staff to think about what could be done practically to improve anything that causes concern, and if this is something that can be done within the design, or if it needs effort at a higher level, for instance working on the perception of the discipline or the admissions process.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 6, 2020

However, whilst the task group has now concluded, the work needed to ensure a diverse and inclusive curriculum across the University is not complete. This is a dynamic project, and needs to be regularly updated and discussed, while ensuring the experiences of marginalised communities at the heart of these discussions. In a good way.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The interesting thing is that learning design is found in lots of places, but many don’t realise when they are interacting with learning design, which is the point! Good learning design shouldn’t be obvious or feel contrived. It should feel natural and organic. So, what is it then? It does not matter if this is online, in-person or a bit of both.

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