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“It’s a Wonderful Workshop”: innovative tutor training for the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Teaching on the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice is primarily conducted in the practical, hands-on learning environment of a workshop (anything from 1 ¼ to 3 hours long), led by a tutor who is most likely to be a practising solicitor.

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Course and Programme Design: Cycling through the ELDeR process

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The workshop must include the academic course team/programme team as well as members of Institute for Academic Development IAD, IS-Educational Design and Engagement, IS-Academic Support Librarians, school based learning technologists and colleagues and students who can act as critical friends.

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Reflections on the use of personae in learning design activities

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Credit: pixabay, StockSnap, CC0 In this post, Jon Jack and Tracey Madden, from the Learning Design Service within Educational Design and Engagement, reflect on their team’s use of student personae in ELDeR workshops when designing and redesigning courses and programmes. designing induction events for undergraduates).

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

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

In 2016, the Students’ Association , led by their Liberation Campaigns , created ‘LiberatEd’ , a campaign to create an intersectional, inclusive and empowering curriculum at the University of Edinburgh.

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As part of this new service, my colleague, Robert Chmielewski, and I have been working on a staff training workshop in the area of blogging for teaching and learning.

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Mini-series: Using the academic blogging service in the Clinical Education and Digital Cultures course

Teaching Matters Online Learning

At the same time, thought has gone into how we can support staff and students to get the most out of their blogs for research, teaching, reflection, etc. Lorna Campbell has developed a great workshop, ‘ Blogging to build your professional profile’, with a wonderful, open blog used as course material.

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Service Excellence Programme: Programme and Course Information Management (PCIM)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As a result, staff time will not be wasted updating and publishing the same information in multiple locations reducing the risk of inconsistent information being presented to students. We found information is held in a number of sources, including, wikis, webpages, VLEs, and inconsistency in processes.