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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating ‘best practice’ across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Photo credit: unsplash, Taylor Barber, CC0 In this post, PhD student Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka explains what the term ‘co-creation of the curriculum’ means, and how it can be an effective student partnership approach… Co-creation of the curriculum is one form of engagement in undergraduate learning and teaching in which students and staff (..)

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Mini-series: The importance of diversifying the curriculum: Reflections from the Senate Task Group

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

In 2018, the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee task group, “ Promoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum ”, was created to address these concerns. The membership of the group spanned all three colleges, academics and professional services, and created a space for holistic discussions about this to occur.

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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating 'best practice' across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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Welcome to the August issue of Teaching Matters: Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

With Spotlight on Joint Degrees , a monthly blog post will bring you notes from the field, which we hope will encourage discussion across the university about what joint degrees should look like, and facilitate productive dialogue between students, professional services staff and academics.

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

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Methodology Figure 1: Thematic map of staff and student concerns with lecture recording I’ve always found conversations more useful than written communications, which is probably why I’ve used unstructured interviews to collect some of our data on attitudes towards lecture recording across the university.

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Reflections on the use of personae in learning design activities

Teaching Matters Online Learning

As part of its remit, it provides ELDeR (Edinburgh Learning Design Roadmap) workshops for academic teams to (re)design courses and programmes, including facilitation from the IAD and representation from School-level Learning Technologists, Professional Services, and Librarians, along with students and/or alumni.