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Student engagement and sense of mattering in a large UG course

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Dr. 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.

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is not a "come and hang out in the hallways" kind of convening it's a "come, roll up your sleeves, engage with colleagues and other partners, and do the hard work of HBCU change." Students are no different. You can't really do HBCU transformation and improvement without students engaged in the conversation.

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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Gerogiorgis delves into the 4S strategySet, Spark, Stroll, Summarizecrafted to maximise student engagement and learning effectiveness in hybrid learning environments. Drawing on his extensive academic and research experience, Prof.

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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”.

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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.