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Welcome to March-April Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Celebrating Best Practices

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Each post delves deeply into unique methods that effectively address today’s educational challenges, enriching student engagement and empowerment. These contributions explore unique pedagogical practices, moving beyond traditional norms to redefine the classroom and learning environment experience.

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Engineers in the making: The path of first year Engineering students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

We took this as an opportunity to engage in creative activities that allowed students to explore beyond their own ‘classroom’. For example, in the Rube Goldberg task, students developed their modules in their own rooms, garages, homes and gardens, whilst still working in virtual groups with regular remote meetings.

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How can our Graduate Attributes inform programme and course development? Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Employment

However, what do they do when they look to develop students’ ‘mindsets’? What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Most programmes, to varying degrees, will address subject-specific and more widely applicable academic skills (e.g. communication, teamworking).

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Teaching in Dialogue: Content-independent learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

We also showed other voices that challenge some of these voices – other students, family members, passers-by – with other kinds of knowledge and perspectives on the issues Mila grapples with. The book shows the importance of learning from others, involving intellectual foils and critical friends in studentsdevelopment.