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.

Libraries 52

Libraries Library Services Research Student Engagement 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

Libraries 52

Libraries Professional Development Graduate Education Research 52

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. The creation of a porous element beyond the somewhat cloistered university environment, such that students could make experiential connections between ‘book learning’ and ‘real life’.

Social Justice 52

Social Justice Libraries Student Engagement Research 52

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

.” This class employs a flipped learning approach, meaning students are expected to be familiar with handling picture scrolls before the session. During this hands-on activity, students carefully unroll replicas of picture scrolls from the late Heian period in the Main Librarys rare book section.

Media 59

Media Libraries Engineering Education 59