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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The mid-semester student feedback on their courses seemed to be welcomed by most as a way to gather student feedback and for staff to act on this feedback while the course was still running, addressing the immediate and short-term goals from the September meeting.

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Learning together in a global pandemic: Practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

As a psychology student explained: [The tutor] keeps my interest alive by presenting, not only the content, but also what matters for her. Experiences, personal understanding, knowledge – it’s all there. Teaching is about her relationship with the subject.

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Students develop their own set of personal and professional skills and attributes, and often use a blog to reflect on their progress. Simon did an excellent presentation as part of our blogging seminar series – and the recording is well worth a listen.

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Using Learn to Support Students for Success

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Large, diverse Schools like my own – Literatures, Languages and Cultures – also present their own set of unique challenges. Moreover, that information is not always presented in a particularly engaging way. Although there are many different answers, one thing is certain: there is no one size fits all approach.

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Interdisciplinarity in the age of data: Teaching data analysis and statistics in the social sciences

Teaching Matters Academic Support

So my main argument is about how the subject can be positioned and the tone in which it is presented. Often, statistics is presented as a hard subject, one which needs lots of hard work, and if you do not do well, it can undermine your abilities as a student.

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Mini-series: What is the value of lecture recording at the University of Edinburgh?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Recording could make lecturers more self-conscious about their appearance, or stop them from making certain jokes, changing how they wanted to present the material. This was often talked about in relation to the exams, which are an ever-present worry for many students. This fear manifested in two main ways.