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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.
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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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
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.
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. Sep 27, 2018
Higher Ed Connects: Technology
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
VR allows a seamless process for students to step into someone else’s shoes, like in the scenarios above, according to what the research paper “Learning Empathy through Virtual Reality” described as the “body ownership illusion.”. Therefore, according to the research, this shifts the participant’s perception of touch toward the virtual body.
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. Her research explores sustainability, social enterprise, and more recently, the pedagogy of critical thinking. Photo credit: Eoin Carey. Oct 11, 2018
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