Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. Engaging with staff members Pooja : Through SACHA, students collaborated closely with faculty and data coaches to ensure curriculum relevance. Pooja Suresh Kumar is pursuing her Master’s degree in Public Health.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

There is support from the Education Department in Edinburgh City Council, who support the orientation workshops for our students. They act as liaison between university and schools to create the school placements, as well as paying for our students to apply for Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) membership by Disclosure Scotland.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Students shared thoughts about interpersonal skills, academic socialisation, equity in assessment, teacher facilitation, and workshops for the student-led project. She is also experienced in curriculum & materials development, student engagement, and education for empowerment.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Additionally, the Edinburgh Innovations Student Enterprise Team plays a crucial role in nurturing entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset among students. Through workshops, 1-2-1 business, and funding opportunities, this team helps students turn innovative ideas into viable business ventures.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Engström, A. & & Schnaas, U.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The role of the lecture in these courses is complementary to that of the workshop, which is the other form of teaching we use. Workshops feature small group working (typically five to six students), largely paced by the students themselves, and with staff and teaching assistants on hand to help.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

In addition to this, they are encouraged to attend a series of workshops that aim to develop their research skills, and to provide them with opportunities to develop communities of practice with students who are researching similar topics.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Photo credit: India trek students Dr Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Business School, talks to Teaching Matters about the huge challenges we are facing in HE to help students engage with problems that are truly relevant – especially the complex issues around social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Chris provides an example of how, on one of his courses, they include a workshop on assessment literacy for the students, using the HEA Engaging with Feedback Toolkit. However, he argues just doing one workshop is not enough… 4. Here, the emphasis is placed not on the delivery but on the reception of feedback.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I walked away from this workshop reflecting on my own experience at this University, how I best learn, and how learning and teaching methods can be improved to ensure a fun and accessible experience for all engaged in the process.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

I also now appreciate the importance of students engaging in thinking about their future careers as early as possible. Whilst there was clearly a role for me in supporting the students through that process, where the project came into its own from a careers perspective was in the follow-up workshop I did with the students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

A sub-set of 8 students have also successfully taken this a step further and, under staff mentorship, have achieved Associate Fellowship of the HEA. Activities include outreach workshops with local schools, like Liberton High School, to foster the link with young people aspiring to enter higher education.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

These projects also develop research and critical skills obtained when writing essays. Moreover, students engage with the ‘real word’ and solve ‘real problems’ compared to artificial ones posed by a lecturer. These are skills required to function in the professional world and match attributes outlined by the University.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

Digital Sociology MSc students engage in workshops about how sociology is communicated and how knowledge is created and curated online each year as a response to the recent ASA article.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

At this early stage, the student receives feedback from their SLICC staff tutor, who offers them guidance on how they may gain greater insight during the learning experience and maximise the available opportunities. Alternatively, the learning experience may be a project that produces a substantial report or output (e.g.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

My colleague Gery Nijenhuis developed a course around masters thesis fieldwork in the Global South, in which anonymized reflections on ‘impactful intercultural encounters’ from the previous cohort of masters students are used as input for preparatory workshop discussions in the following year (Schutjens et al.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Such skills I now use day to day as a business analyst for a renewable energy developer. This assignment gave me first-hand experience of the world of consultancy, and I have now used the experience gained to propose new, effective sustainable measures to management.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

All students taking the course complete a short, persuasive briefing paper, which is shared with the department and with relevant operations colleagues. In the final week of the course, a half-day workshop is arranged where student groups present their research and recommendations.

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