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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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 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 Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When these courses were first created, they were intended exclusively for international students with English as an additional language (EAL speakers). There is a common misperception that EAP mainly involves correcting students’ grammar. They generally believed the materials and class discussions were relevant for all students.

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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 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 Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When these courses were first created, they were intended exclusively for international students with English as an additional language (EAL speakers). There is a common misperception that EAP mainly involves correcting students’ grammar. They generally believed the materials and class discussions were relevant for all students.

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Creatrix Campus

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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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both students and staff at the University of Edinburgh recognise the benefits these projects offer across a wide range of academic, professional, and personal skills.

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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 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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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 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 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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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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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

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 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

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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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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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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Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We'll show you how Curriculum Mapping can be a game-changer, aligning learning goals with results to ensure students stay on the path to success. But what precisely does curriculum mapping entail? Join us as we explore the importance of Curriculum Mapping in today's education.

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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 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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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

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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Credit Image: www.nealesmith.com In this extra post, David Caulton discusses developing postgraduate law students’ ability to participate effectively in seminars through a short course run jointly by English Language Education (ELE) and the Edinburgh Law School.

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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 Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

Foster: With SACHA it’s not all about what the university can give students through lectures and seminars but what the students can also give back to the university. It is a “give and take initiative” with the aim to involve students in the decision-making process in the University.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 2, 2024

As the SACHA team supports 30+ such student groups each year, we have gathered lessons from our experiences and the different scenarios that we often see groups encounter during the programme. It is likely that each team member is an active participant, brings their own expertise to the table and has a clear role to play.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 15, 2022

Our aim is for students to be ‘affected’ by their education. That is, we want the students to feel things with their own hands, by making and creating new gadgets; to feel the emotions of what it really means being an engineer today, by proposing solutions to address global challenges such as social inequality and global warming.

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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 Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2020

For this month’s series, we reached out to staff and students who are involved with the work of embedding sustainability in the curriculum. She works with Jenny Scoles as the Teaching Matters Deputy Editor and Student Engagement Officer. And many more! Her research looks at the intersection between art and politics.

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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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