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Co-creating care home nursing education in the curriculum

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Ensuring that care home nursing is included in the education of student nurses is part of the response. Student nurses have the potential to offer solutions to the crisis in recruitment through the co-creation of the nursing curriculum. This led students to think about care home nursing in a different way.

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Going back to the FUN-damentals of learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

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.

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Recapturing the excitement of lectures

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

There is evidence that many students appreciate and benefit from interactive lectures (Huxham, 2005; Revell and Wainwright, 2009). 2016) Eight smart ways to use social media in universities. Catherine Bovill Dr Catherine Bovill is Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.

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India Trek 2018: Where did it come from, who made it, and why does it matter?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Photo credit: India trek students Dr Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Business School, talks to Teaching Matters about the huge challenges we are facing in HE to help students engage with problems that are truly relevant – especially the complex issues around social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

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Mini-series: Balance for better – Diversifying Wikipedia

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Digital Sociology MSc students engage in workshops about how sociology is communicated and how knowledge is created and curated online each year as a response to the recent ASA article. Prior to this, Ewan worked as a PGDE English and Media teacher in the Far East (Japan, Singapore and South Korea) and in Scotland.

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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Future Teaching Matters themes include: Tutoring and demonstrating – April 2017 PhD experience – May 2017 Assessment and Feedback – June 2017 If you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media on any upcoming themes or any teaching-related subject, let us know. Mar 1, 2017

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Teaching with sustainability in the Vet School

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

It can be easy for us to ignore the negative impact of being wasteful but as the media and general population becomes increasingly aware we will play more of a part in reducing landfill waste, rainforest destruction, CO2 emissions etc.

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