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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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Adventures in Ungrading

The Scholarly Teacher

Be clear and concise with your syllabus language to communicate the definition of ungrading and how it will be used in your course. Consider including a definition, how you will provide feedback, what students should do with the feedback, why you are ungrading, and how it matches with overall course expectations and objectives.

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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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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford As the school year begins in 115,171 schools nationally, I feel compelled to write about increasing home-school partnerships whose foundation is family engagement. Given the lower achievement and other negative outcomes of Black and Hispanic students in our schools often due to racial prejudice and discrimination (i.e.,

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Student engagement inside and outside the classroom

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Staff and three students meeting for a chat on the Coffee and Cake Conversation initiative September’s introductory blog post is written by Dr Cathy Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development. 2014) Clarifying the concept of student engagement. & Hu, S.

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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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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

Podcast New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises Episode 152. They also offer advice to community college leaders on ways to make measurable improvements in student retention and enrollment. EAB · New Student Engagement Data Reveal Surprises Transcript [music] 0:00:13.0 May 23, 2023.