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Welcome to the Oct-Dec Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2024

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Ceilidh dancing at the Celebration of Culture events at R(D)SVS – one of the funded SPA projects in 2024. The Student Partnership Agreement is an engaging and enriching experience for students and staff to come together to work in partnership to enhance the student experience. Image credit: R(D)SVS / Maggie Bennett.

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Welcome to the Oct-Dec Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2024

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Ceilidh dancing at the Celebration of Culture events at R(D)SVS – one of the funded SPA projects in 2024. The Student Partnership Agreement is an engaging and enriching experience for students and staff to come together to work in partnership to enhance the student experience. Image credit: R(D)SVS / Maggie Bennett.

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Welcome to the Sept-Nov Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2023

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

One way in which the University supports putting the tenets of this Agreement into practice is through Student Partnership Agreement Funding. Proposed projects are funded for up to £1000, and must involve both students and staff as named collaborators on the application AND in the work of the project.

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Welcome to the April issue of Teaching Matters: Building Academic Communities

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

This in turn, has been shown to increase the feelings of belonging during students’ time at University, and, subsequently, raises educational success (e.g., Go Abroad Staff is one fantastic scheme offered to University staff, which funds and supports travel abroad. Felten et al, 2016).

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My sustainability journey: Perspectives of a teacher of academic English skills

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Integrating and embedding the SDGs more formally into university curricula will build on the existing knowledge base that many students leave school with, and allow them to develop this further, applying it to their degree programmes in novel and innovative ways. This, in turn, will hopefully inform subsequent developments in the curricula.

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Mini-series: A summary of recently published lecture recording papers

Teaching Matters Academic Support

We have continued to keep an eye on new research being published in the sector in addition to commissioning and funding lecture recording research at the University through our Engagement and Evaluation group (much of it already covered in this mini-series). The next call for PTAS funding will close in March. References Draper, M.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme. It builds on the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures (FILL) developed by Wood et al.