Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Photo Credit: University of Edinburgh Image Collections CC0 Welcome to the February issue: Library and University Collections This month’s issue of Teaching Matters puts Library and University Collections firmly in the spotlight.

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Libraries Library Services Research Student Engagement 52

Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Photo credit: Resource Lists homepage: [link] The Library now provides Resource Lists for around 2500 taught courses. The Library has grown the service by showing how Resource Lists benefits students, and by making it easier for course organisers to request Library materials for teaching by using Resource Lists.

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Libraries Management Research Curriculum Development 52

Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Alex Hadba, CC0 In this post, Lauren Smith, Digital Support Librarian, outlines why open access resources are important in teaching, how lecturers can incorporate open access resources into their teaching materials, and how Library and University Collections can support them… What is open access? Feb 20, 2020

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Libraries Professional Development Graduate Education Research 52

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We also digitise material owned by other institutions as part of partnership projects, as in the case of the current project to digitise the Scottish Session Papers in collaboration with the Faculty of Advocates and Signet Library. Dec 19, 2017

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An opportunity for students to gain developmental, transferable skills by learning outside the library and the lecture theatre from the start. From the start, we wanted a strand running through the programme that achieved particular aims. These were: A genuine contribution to communities local to the University.

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Social Justice Libraries Student Engagement Research 52

Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Global Challenges for Business Poster Presentation Award Night in the Playfair Library, Dr Sarah Ivory with winning students. Photo credit: Eoin Carey.

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Education Libraries Research IT 52

Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

18th Century, by Science Photo Library, CC0. Electricity demonstration. In this post, Professor Tim Drysdale introduces September and October’s new Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Innovation in Science Teaching , with a reflection on past and future approaches to science teaching at The University of Edinburgh.

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Engineering Electronics Libraries Higher Education 52