Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He discusses how the integration of these AI-driven tools into his coursework not only enhances the efficiency of learning complex programming concepts but also redefines the pedagogical strategies aimed at fostering deeper student engagement and understanding. They are an important aspect of plans surrounding technology in education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Photo credit: India trek students Dr Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Business School, talks to Teaching Matters about the huge challenges we are facing in HE to help students engage with problems that are truly relevant – especially the complex issues around social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 30, 2025

This approach not only enhances student engagement and understanding but also aligns perfectly with the modern educational need for flexibility and self-directed learning. This post belongs to the Jan-March Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Engaging and Empowering Learning Engaging and Empowering Learning with Technology.

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JUNE 1, 2023

10 benefits of using the curriculum mapping system admin Thu, 06/01/2023 - 20:48 Colleges and universities are now more challenged than ever to raise student attainment levels. As educators it is necessary to give students the best education we can, giving them the abilities and information they need to succeed.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

180) have created a “ladder of student participation in curriculum design” that shows how student engagement in the curriculum can range from no engagement within a dictated, staff-controlled curriculum to significant levels of student engagement with student control of the curriculum (see below).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But, upon launching the course, I was surprised to see an overwhelming number of enrolment requests from students outside of Japanese Studies so many, in fact, that I had to implement a cap on non-Japanese Studies students. For a generation familiar with yokai through popular media, it seems yokai have become something of a buzzword.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As one student put it: “There’s so many things happening at the same time and tutors […] they would expect sometimes that students are already equipped […] with knowledge, with life skills” (Focus Group 1). Next, we moved on to the student-led project. To gain work experience.” Work experience.” “It

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 21, 2019

Julie Watson from Nursing Studies in the School of Health in Social Science, describe a PTAS-funded study, where students and staff co-created a nursing curriculum that foregrounds the importance of care home nursing education… The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

Matt:   Being a Challenge Host, alongside Dr Jeni Harden, was an incredibly valuable experience and helped to generate momentum behind efforts to meaningfully embed climate and sustainability into the curriculum. I These recommendations were drawn directly from their own student experience. Students have some great ideas.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Photo credit: Cytonn Photography, Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, Catherine Bovill introduces the new 2021-22 Student Partnership Agreement and Funding Scheme and its three key areas of focus. Dr Bovill is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

I reckon this can result in courses that are relevant, up-to-date, and engaging! Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design. Engaging with staff members Pooja : Through SACHA, students collaborated closely with faculty and data coaches to ensure curriculum relevance.

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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. I thought it might be useful to bring together a set of ideas couched mainly in everyday language, looking at teaching and student learning and influences on them.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. & Felten, P. Feb 2, 2021

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JANUARY 10, 2019

Crucially, it was also co-created with students –through the course Social and Political Science in Practice , an SPS framework for Honours students to undertake faculty-student collaboration on research, teaching or public engagement.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 7, 2019

At the end of the course, criteria-based facilitated group discussions are used to explore students’ engagement with the process. This process can be tough for students. However, it is a valuable way to develop the skills required to feedback and negotiate with colleagues in the employment context.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I think it is fair to say that it is less common to see students demonstrating palpable excitement to enter the room. Why are students less excited by the learning experiences we offer? Catherine Bovill Dr Catherine Bovill is Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As one student put it: “There’s so many things happening at the same time and tutors […] they would expect sometimes that students are already equipped […] with knowledge, with life skills” (Focus Group 1). Next, we moved on to the student-led project. Feedback from students included: Why did you join this project? “As

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This (self-imposed) time limit meant that the journey of scientific discovery cannot be fully replicated by students – the materials have to be there before the students arrive. However, this was the only willing concession to ‘reliability’ – the remainder of the students’ engagement with the scientific endeavour was retained.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 8, 2019

From the LGBT+ inclusive curriculum developed by staff and students for the Medicine curriculum , to the School of Divinity including a question about an inclusive curriculum in their Board of Studies processes, there is a variety of tactics that can be employed to create this change. This, of course, is not true.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Choice is essential Choice is essential, as students need to gain the professional and academic skills to allow them to go into much greater depth when they graduate. Inevitably, when students make these choices it is linked to career exploration. Nevertheless, the broad philosophy underlying the mantra remains strong.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Dr Catherine Bovill is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement, and Celeste McLaughlin is Head of Academic Development for Digital Education, and are both based at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD). Connect pedagogy, assessment and digital technology in curriculum development.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 19, 2023

Solo Taxonomy is a hierarchical framework developed by John Biggs and Kevin Collis for designing and assessing learning outcomes. It categorizes levels of understanding and competence based on the complexity of students' thinking and application of knowledge. What is Solo Taxonomy?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, hairmann, CC0 The September theme on student engagement was true to its title, engaging over 5000 student and staff readers – a new milestone for Teaching Matters’ viewing figures! Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

In the second semester, we run a course called Case Studies in Sustainable Development, which, as the title suggests, covers a range of examples of sustainable development in practice. 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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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

” So, at an instrumentally beneficial level, “research-led teaching reflects and makes use of the teacher’s disciplinary research to benefit student learning and outcomes” (Trowler & Wareham, 2008). Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 25, 2023

The choice-based credit system (CBCS) emerges as a revolutionary solution, offering a flexible and student-centered approach to learning. The Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) is an educational system that offers students greater freedom in choosing their courses. What is a Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS)?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. & Felten, P. Feb 2, 2021

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

Ellen and Tara then move on to talking about these areas through three different, yet overlapping, lenses: Research: Ellen and Tara want to see the University engage ALL of its students in the research work that it is so proud of as an institution. The talk moves to questioning how a University can enable these aspirations.

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

To help, EAB developed the Institutional Strategy Index for DEIJ , a tool that comprehensively and objectively evaluates the current state of your institution’s efforts against best practice and creates a personalized roadmap of actions to close gaps. As a result, senior leaders continue to find it difficult to make change. Activities.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 31, 2022

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a priority area of the current Enhancement Theme, and has three projects running this year: The Anti-racist Curriculum project builds on the sector-wide commitment to tackle racism in Scottish higher and further education. The Phase 1 resources can be found on the AdvanceHE website.

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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. I thought it might be useful to bring together a set of ideas couched mainly in everyday language, looking at teaching and student learning and influences on them.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We also wanted to provide opportunities for students new to Edinburgh to become inhabitants of their new home city. The main thrust of the MA programme, with its interest in social justice, was a perfect environment to develop these aims and to contribute to University priorities.

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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 Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

The result is that our community is more engaged with knowledge creation online and readers all over the world benefit from our teaching, research and collections. In the news The University of Edinburgh recently won at the Herald Higher Education Awards 2019 for its Wikimedia in the Curriculum work. billion unique devices.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

This year, over 40 students and 40 delegates took part in the event and the feedback that the students received from those who attended was overwhelmingly positive. Below are some student quotations to highlight their thoughts about the course and the conference. I really enjoyed talking about our research.

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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 Student Engagement

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The flipped classroom is not without its own problems- notably that while students are clearly required to think during peer instruction, they are considering someone else’s questions which do not necessarily address their own interests, knowledge gaps and misconceptions. ” Exactly so.

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