Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 10, 2018

Pixabay CC0 Digital tools can not fix an illness or take away a disability, but they can play a huge part in enabling participation. I’m also an education researcher, working 5 hours a week, currently on a lecture recording project in the School of Mathematics. When reading is difficult I find that text to speech is helpful.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Exams and assignment deadlines are particularly challenging times for students, and postgraduate research students can often experience challenges within their supervisory relationship and as a result of social isolation.

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 18, 2024

in Community College Leadership program at New Jersey City University and worked at Middlesex County College for 18 years in a variety of roles including professor of psychology and student success, director for the Center for the Enrichment of Learning and Teaching, first-year seminar course coordinator, counselor, and disability services provider.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the years, researchers have been working on how to best promote positive mental health among students. Through this project, researchers have done interviews and focus groups to help them design the website. Works like these serve as inspirations for my own research project.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 3, 2019

I was fascinated to hear Peter Felten, in his excellent key-note speech at the recent Learning and Teaching Conference , say that research shows that the single most important factor in enabling students to establish and maintain positive mental wellbeing is what happens in the classroom.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 11, 2022

“Key takeaways from mental health training” (October 2020): [link] Teaching fellow, Omar Kaissi, reflects on the value of completing a mental health training session organised jointly by the University’s Student Counselling and Student Disability services. 10. “What is learning design?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 30, 2023

And much similar to the broader neo-liberalised academia, it is highly competitive with an overemphasis on excellence in teaching and research activity ( Brown and Leigh, 2018 ). She is also a senior lecturer, academic coordinator and periodontist at the Faculty of Dentistry, SEGi University, Malaysia.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 13, 2024

Enhancing the online student experience through the application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to research methods learning and teaching. Educ Inf Technol 29, 2767–2785 (2024). link] Garrad, T.-A., A., & Nolan, H. Rethinking higher education unit design: Embedding universal design for learning in online studies.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 7, 2023

This also applies to research students. The needs of our students change again in preparation for their dissertation, particularly as student wellbeing can be effected, when there are less opportunities to meet up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

The report, co-published by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, is based on research done on the 66 colleges, universities, and state systems that were part of AAC&U’s first Institute on Open Educational Resources, which took place between 2021 and 2022.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2019

Although our Student Disability Service offers autism awareness training, all too often the job of educating staff falls to individual autistic students, and we know anecdotally that many autistic people struggle to identify what adjustments would be helpful. She is a Senior Research Fellow and Director SMC Research Centre.

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