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Student engagement and sense of mattering in a large UG course

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Celine Caquineau, a Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Medical School, tackles the formidable challenge of enhancing student engagement within large undergraduate courses. Large courses are difficult contexts to establish effective learning communities where each student feels they belong. Rosenberg, M., & McCullough, B.

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Student presentations: An authentic assessment for online postgraduate students

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Presentation skills are an important part of higher education and while these can be assessed utilising a range of authentic assessment types, oral presentations allow students to share information, describe and discuss their research and to do so utilising suitably crafted slides.

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A student partnership project to enhance curriculum development in medical education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Interestingly, they said that it also gave them an insight into some of the challenges lecturers face, for example, when recruiting for the evaluation focus group one said “ I was personally surprised by lack of student engagement”. Sam is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and co-directs the MSc PA for Health.

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Spotlight on ELIR: Reflections on Student Engagement

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Photo credit: Pierangel Bettoni, Unsplash CC0 This is the ninth post in the ‘Spotlight on ELIR’ series , where PhD intern Vesna Curlic reflects on her work on engaging students with the review process and considers how student engagement will be different in the upcoming academic year. What will a hybrid model look like?

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Welcome to the September issue of Teaching Matters: Student Engagement

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

This month’s theme focuses on student engagement. Look out for Cathy Bovill’s blog post tomorrow, which offers a brief overview of student engagement literature, and an example of an innovative student engagement inititative. Sep 3, 2018

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Teaching at scale: Improving student engagement through Quectures

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

How do we maintain student engagement in that seemingly anonymous sea of students in the large lecture hall, and how can the same strategy do so for each individual with different backgrounds and needs? iStock [kubkoo] Teaching at scale poses specific challenges.

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GenZ+GenAI: A whole new world and not a brand new world

Teaching Matters Online Learning

He discusses how the integration of these AI-driven tools into his coursework not only enhances the efficiency of learning complex programming concepts but also redefines the pedagogical strategies aimed at fostering deeper student engagement and understanding.