Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Through workshops, 1-2-1 business, and funding opportunities, this team helps students turn innovative ideas into viable business ventures. Christina Starko Christina Starko is an Enterprise Executive at Edinburgh Innovations, where she is currently working to embed enterprise into the curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many of our colleagues have been teaching for more than thirty years, and so the team was delighted to make use of the opportunity to take part in an ELDeR (Edinburgh Learning Design Roadmap) workshop for both programmes and courses. Often during the ELDeR, the programme design team would split into two groups and come up with ideas.

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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 Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2018

The project has a core aim to develop a creative, future-oriented vision for digital education at Edinburgh, by having an open, institution-wide conversation with students and staff, which focuses on values, curriculum and pedagogy, not only on technological change.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Academics from the Schools of Law, Business and ESALA were drawn together to develop the project. A workshop was held with local residents and businesses, the council, police and the academic team. Students would work in cross-disciplinary groups to produce a series of proposals in an intensive design charette.

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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. Although the main focus of the course is on autonomous, self-directed learning, students attended three, 2-hour workshops in semester 1. Photo credit: Annette Götzkes.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 13, 2019

Lorna Campbell has developed a great workshop, ‘ Blogging to build your professional profile’, with a wonderful, open blog used as course material. Karen Howie and Robert Chmielewski are putting the finishing touches to a workshop about blogging for teaching and learning. I can personally recommend both of these.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 8, 2020

To this end we plan to actively create and develop learning communities (Tinto 2000) using structured and heavily supported staff-mentored group-work on assessed, reflective and investigative tasks at weekly workshops throughout the semester.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This included one-to-one meetings with a business adviser, competitions, workshops and accelerator programmes. More recently, we have prioritised and increased our capacity to support the embedding of enterprise in the curriculum. She supports provision of the best training, workshops and education for founders and innovators.

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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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In the Autumn of 2018, the PCIM team ran a number of workshops involving students and staff focused on course and programme maintenance and the information held in course handbooks. We found information is held in a number of sources, including, wikis, webpages, VLEs, and inconsistency in processes.

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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 Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. The students in my group were committed and motivated, developing innovative ideas and high-quality outputs. It was gratifying to see their contributions shape course design and curriculum development.”

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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 Employment

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Each two-hour workshop was attended by 60-80 students, in a large teaching studio. How on earth do 140 students deliver repeated presentations and receive useful feedback in twenty hours? The logistics were intricate, if not nerve-wracking.

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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 Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

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

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

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

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As we develop the analysis, we will be running workshops and writing for publication. Helping all of our students to understand that it’s quite normal and reasonable to make mistakes, have disagreements and get stuck is also a great idea. If you have any more suggestions, do let us know!

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

When applying for a job, I won’t talk about an essay, or multiple choice tests where I got 90+%; I will talk about the time I developed and taught workshops on emotional resilience to at-risk youth. Supporting project-based learning initiatives and placing more responsibility on students will create more employable graduates.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There are few commodities that have such an unnoticed yet profound impact on our modern world.

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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 Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Ben Owers will discuss working collaboratively on authoring learning materials in a workshop environment. Amy Hardie and colleagues from the Edinburgh College of Art will reflect on coping with Covid through team teaching. Sharon Levy from the Usher Institute will write about co-creating content with undergraduate nursing students.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Rather than these being ‘add-ons’, or buried in the expected learning objectives, they are explicitly taught through a weekly lecture and small group skills workshop. These are Quality of Argument, Strength of Evidence, and Clarity of Presentation.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Activities include outreach workshops with local schools, like Liberton High School, to foster the link with young people aspiring to enter higher education. 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.

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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.

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Higher Ed Connects: Curriculum

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

He serves as an evaluator and workshop leader for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and was a Teagle Assessment Scholar with the Center of Inquiry at Wabash College from 2011-2018. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in philosophy from Virginia Tech, and a B.S

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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

A full set of resources have been developed to support staff and students to undertake SLICCs from foundation, through undergraduate and into postgraduate study (SCQF levels 7 to 11), in both groups. Alternatively, the learning experience may be a project that produces a substantial report or output (e.g.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

We first just need to enter nuanced discussions as to how we could best achieve this – whether this be in the form of revised EAP syllabi or additional language workshops offered as a supplement to pre-sessional EAP courses.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Facilitators’ Toolkit: Considerations and information about implementing reflection in courses, workshops, and other initiatives. This includes reflective models with written examples; using reflection for different purposes (e.g.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

My main takeaways from these readings can be summarised as: What advice do we need to develop to support student study skills where lecture recording is one of a range of online resources that they might now be using? The workshops described in the recent post about the Engagement and Evaluation group are a vital next step in this space.

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Higher Ed Connects: Curriculum

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

He serves as an evaluator and workshop leader for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and was a Teagle Assessment Scholar with the Center of Inquiry at Wabash College from 2011-2018. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in philosophy from Virginia Tech, and a B.S

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

Improved curriculum and teaching quality Access to resources and networking opportunities including conferences, workshops, and research opportunities. Develop and implement policies and procedures, such as those related to curriculum development, faculty qualifications, and assessment and evaluation.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Ben Owers will discuss working collaboratively on authoring learning materials in a workshop environment. Amy Hardie and colleagues from the Edinburgh College of Art will reflect on coping with Covid through team teaching. Sharon Levy from the Usher Institute will write about co-creating content with undergraduate nursing students.

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