University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Predictive analytics tapping into trends in fields of study, labor-market demand, and into other historic data, current and predictive data can lend insights that help colleges and universities be more proactive and nimbler with curriculum development and staffing. Student perspectives can help change that. Supply chain’ visibility.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on remote teaching’ post, Yi-Shan Tsai, research associate at the School of Informatics, talks about the advantages and challenges of blended learning design and what questions to consider when adopting this approach. The course begins on 11 May on FutureLearn.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 6, 2018

In addition, the digital essay invites students to explore a course theme through networked media or digital form, often resulting in work that is simultaneously imaginative, playful and scholarly. The Education and Digital Cultures course is taught by Jeremy Knox and James Lamb, both from the Centre for Research in Digital Education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 29, 2018

This week sees the launch of the second instance of the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the edX platform. Known as ‘ SOCRMx ’, this course is free and openly accessible to learners across the globe, and provides eight weeks of stimulating materials related to conducting social science research.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They can also be a useful resource for researchers looking to better understand the relationship between teaching practices and learning. These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We have continued to keep an eye on new research being published in the sector in addition to commissioning and funding lecture recording research at the University through our Engagement and Evaluation group (much of it already covered in this mini-series). That’s okay.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 8, 2016

Indeed, as the drive for scholarly research to become ever more Open Access gathers pace, Wikipedia will increasingly become the digital gateway to this research. Students can be taught how to edit in up to 60 minutes and thereafter can research and write, with academic rigour, brand new Wikipedia articles.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Louise Connelly Dr Louise Connelly MA (Hons), MSc, PhD, PgDip is an E-Learning Developer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Louise provides pedagogical advice and develops online distance learning programmes and MOOCs. Her research focuses on digital education, online research ethics, and social media and education.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Student Research Course Foundation (SRCF) is a 10-credit course taken in the second year of the five-year undergraduate Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) degree. It is designed around a student-led group research project, allowing students to self-select their group and topic.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Many of these warnings have fallen on deaf ears as most students I know acknowledge that they use Wikipedia in some way in their research or learning. We will contribute not only our research to Wikipedia but do research with and about Wikipedia. A study by Selwyn found that 87.5%

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

OERs have been part of the higher education landscape for some time, but increasingly we are seeing discussions about open practice (Cronin 2017) and how to support teachers, researchers and students to work in ways that encourage collaboration, the sharing of content and processes, and sensitivity to context of knowledge creation and use.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

(Cronon, 2012) At The University of Edinburgh, we have quickly generated real examples of technology-enhanced learning activities appropriate to the curriculum and transformed our students, staff and members of the public from being passive readers and consumers to being active, engaged contributors. Jun 19, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

His research focuses on questions related to media, memory and modern Japanese history. Chris Perkins Dr Chris Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Director of Undergraduate Teaching in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Sep 3, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

To some extent, we can engage students through interactive lectures that are interwoven with resonant narratives and visual media – but that isn’t always enough. There are limits to what we can do in the classroom or in a virtual environment.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Photo credit: CC0, unsplash, Sincerely Media In this post, Kali Muhly-Alexander reflects on her learning experiences at the University and why the University needs to be creating a curriculum that includes multiple avenues to students’ success. I felt ungrateful and a bit of a failure.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

However, it was unclear what impact, if any, it had on attendance, with research having consistently failed to establish any clear relationship. Media Hopper Replay is the new service, find out more information via the Replay web pages. Why is it not done for many other courses?”

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For a generation familiar with yokai through popular media, it seems yokai have become something of a buzzword. She is currently working on a kanji experiential learning project and conducting research on visual media discourse.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 21, 2019

Student nurses have the potential to offer solutions to the crisis in recruitment through the co-creation of the nursing curriculum. It challenged some of their preconceived ideas, which had been strongly shaped not only by negative stories in the media, but also by negativity within the nursing profession itself. Mar 21, 2019

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2017

students at the University of Edinburgh researching & creating new articles on terms not currently represented on Wikipedia in Sept. Identify a focus area for the assignment i.e. create a worklist as to which articles are to be created or improved during the assignment and whether there will be enough sources to help with the research.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

In his research, Carleton College economics professor Nathan Grawe argues that the financial crisis of 2008 will lead to a major tsunami for higher education in 2026. Researchers collected data from the students CatCard IDs, which can be used at numerous campus locations, including residence halls, labs, and the Student Union Memorial Center.

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