Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The sector-wide Enhancement Themes have often been such waves – they have presented opportunities to harness and build momentum in directions we already wanted to travel as a university. In contrast to some other frameworks, the University’s Graduate Attributes were designed to be contextualised.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Developing graduate attributes should be stated in programmes’ learning outcomes. However, is there a challenge presented by the modular structure of programmes? Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

You can read a summary of the Review through an HE lens on the Skills Development Scotland website. The opportunity presented by the review is ambitious and exciting, with the potential to become world leading. Achieving the vision will pose challenges, but you don’t get to lead the pack without taking risks.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 25, 2023

It integrates skill-based courses to enhance students' employability and practical skills relevant to their chosen fields. CBCS facilitates seamless credit transfer between institutions, providing students with more educational mobility options. Provide timely feedback to students to facilitate their learning and improvement.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

program , which saw us developing a course prototype delivered in the form of a website , a Learn page, and a final presentation. Developing: Sketching out course themes and topics, learning objectives and outcomes, assessments, support and interaction methods. This was under the University’s Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

As each student progresses through the role of Design Agency intern, junior, senior, and director, their level of responsibility and workload increases. Each encounter of this spiral curriculum is assessed through reflective documentation often using diaries, blogs, films and pecha-kucha style presentations.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This approach brings a number of other educational benefits and challenges, for example: Students are motivated by having to engage with the ‘real world’ and present their ideas to outside stakeholders. Students have more direct access to the messiness of the problem though the external stakeholders.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What was it about the teaching activities or the way the content was presented that engaged the learners? Why was that? Why did this work better than alternatives?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It is organised as a 20 credit elective course in year two, that spans both semesters to enable participating students to undertake a meaningful placement in a school, to initiate development of their own teaching skills in working with school pupils, and to develop and deliver a cultural learning experience in their school class placement.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

It provides a level of assurance to students, employers, and other stakeholders that the institution meets certain standards for quality and effectiveness. Improved curriculum and teaching quality Access to resources and networking opportunities including conferences, workshops, and research opportunities.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Experiential education: Defining features for curriculum and pedagogy (23 August 2018) Dr Simon Beames, a senior lecturer in Outdoor Learning at Moray House School of Education, along with his colleagues, presents a theoretical framework of experiential education that is centred around six defining features.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

This led me to reflect on my previous teaching experience: how often had I asked students to really reflect on their learning and on the range of skills and experiences it provided?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

We were continuously put into teams and made to present in different styles on various topics ranging from climate change impact assessment to the proposal of new sustainable business solutions. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the course’s learning approaches are far from traditional, containing many vocational and practical elements.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, intographics, CC0 At the University’s Learning and Teaching Conference in June, Jean O’Donoghue and Colin Campbell (School of Chemistry) and Fumi Kitagawa (Edinburgh Business School), presented a ‘Did you know?’

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 25, 2019

We give our students fundamental training on key topics, but also equip them with skills (such as critical thinking, presentation skills, etc) that make them attractive to a wide range of employers. And our students don’t lack imagination!

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

and includes a video of their presentation at McEwan Hall. Photo credit: Allan Bovill This post summarises Ellen MacRae and Tara Gold’s keynote talk: What even is a University anyway? , Ellen was EUSA President 20/22, and Tara was EUSA Vice President Education 21/22.

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