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Reflection and metacognition for veterinary students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The aim of the course is to provide general support and advice on personal and professional development, including the opportunity for students to consider their own weaknesses and strengths. A final point to acknowledge is that, as individuals, everyone’s ‘reflective capacity’ differs and that includes staff as well as students!

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This definition helps show the many different ways that students can work in partnership with staff to improve learning and teaching, but Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten also emphasise that all partnerships must be built on strong working relationships that foster respect, reciprocity, and shared responsibility.

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Student engagement in research-led learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In the guide, we outline four different definitions of research-led learning and teaching (adapted from Griffiths, 2004), which we are using at The University of Edinburgh: Learning ABOUT RESEARCH: Students’ learning is informed by research – the content of learning is derived from research within the field.

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A Beginner’s Guide to AI in Annual Giving

EAB

In most cases, the answer is a definite “yes.” There’s really no way to get good at prompting ChatGPT except through practice (though trainings are definitely helpful). Even though AI cannot substitute for subject-matter expertise, it can make your existing experts more productive and help staff develop new areas of expertise.

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Welcome to the October issue of Teaching Matters: Research-led teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

” So, at an instrumentally beneficial level, “research-led teaching reflects and makes use of the teacher’s disciplinary research to benefit student learning and outcomes” (Trowler & Wareham, 2008).

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Mini-series: What is the value of lecture recording at the University of Edinburgh?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Lecturers talked about recordings ‘canonising’ the material in the lectures, making them the definitive version of the material in the eyes of the students. Recording could make lecturers more self-conscious about their appearance, or stop them from making certain jokes, changing how they wanted to present the material.

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Professional Development and Professional Recognition for University Teachers: a mentor’s eye view

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

However, I may still need to help them think through their definition of what a teacher does. By the time they join the EdTA, they have usually accepted the role that they play in the education of others and the privileges and responsibilities that this involves.