Eric Stoller

MAY 23, 2018

When I was a college student, there were times when I skipped out on buying a required textbook for a course. Finances were always tight, so I tried to balance my checkbook with buying actual books. Even then, textbooks weren’t cheap. Today, students are paying more and more for their higher education experience. If a university can find ways to make attending college more affordable, accessible, and “high-tech/high-touch”, well, it’s not really an option, it’s a necessity.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

MAY 29, 2018

One of the most important aspects of developing residence hall curriculum is the establishment of assessment practices that measure student learning. The use of Bloom’s Taxonomy and its related verbs can help in this regard by ensuring that the outcomes we seek to achieve are specific and measurable. But how do we actually do the.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 29, 2018

avid_creative/Getty Images In this post, Helen Stringer, assistant director of the Careers Service, reveals findings from a project investigating how resilience is being experienced by students… We secured funding from AMOSSHE (Student Services Organisation) to conduct a small scale research project designed to surface students’ attitudes to resilience, their perceptions of challenge and failure, and how well equipped they felt to transition from university to employment.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] When this is the first thing you say to a class of 200+ medical students, it raises a few eyebrows! When you say this to staff, it raises a few eyebrows with them as well… In the undergraduate medical curriculum, the Student Selected Components (SSCs) programme amounts to 15% of academic credit for the whole medicine programme. The SSC2b is a small window of opportunity in Semester 2 of second year, which is designed to enable our students to do something beyond mainstream medicine

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Terminalfour

MAY 1, 2018

A regular post on Instagram, these bulletin style videos rack up thousands of views, while spreading the word about the university

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 24, 2018

Credit: ECA Jared Taylor, programme director for Animation at Edinburgh College of Art, explains how pedagogical aspects of creative disciplines can help promote resilience in students… Most, if not all, creative disciplines necessitate a certain resilience in their practitioners. Audiences can be wayward and fickle, critics can instil terror, the manual labour involved can be protracted and arduous, the use of emergent technology can engender a fear of not being quite current enough, an

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

CC0 [Pixabay] This post sees Psychology student, Tobias, explaining how much he has valued project-based learning in his undergraduate experience, and how this has prepared him for the professional world… Education must prepare students for life. To address this, the University of Edinburgh has developed a framework of ‘ Graduate Attributes ’, which each student should have the opportunity to develop while studying here.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 15, 2018

Image credit: EY This blog post is written by a Laura Sleigh, a 2008 graduate from the university. Laura works as a Student Attraction Advisor for EY, one of the global leaders in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, and the University of Edinburgh Business School. Laura outlines for Teaching Matters the importance of developing emotional intelligence for career success… The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently asked 350 HR leaders from the world’s biggest organisations which

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

MAY 14, 2018

Goals and narratives are perhaps the least appreciated, understood, and often confused components of a residential curriculum. In reviewing the cascade of learning objectives in a curriculum, one starts with an educational priority. An educational priority is a broad summary statement of what students will learn as a result of their participation in the curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 8, 2018

Photographer credit: Mihaela Bodlovic In recent decades rapid technological and scientific innovation has fundamentally shifted the nature and structure of employment in developed countries, with a rise in the number of highly skilled professional, technical and managerial jobs. These changes have irreversibly altered the demand for skills, which are crucial to translating creativity, curiousity and innovation into employment and economic growth.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

In this month’s issue, Teaching Matters is delighted to be working in close partnership with the Careers Service to showcase innovative and interesting teaching practices that focus on Employability and Graduate Attributes. In the first blog post, Shelagh Green, Director for Careers and Employability, introduces this month’s theme with a discussion on the meanings behind the terms ’employability’ and ‘graduate attributes’ You can find previous blog posts relat

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] As a child I had an austere English teacher who frequently told my class that we must, “Say what we mean, and mean what we say”. I was reflecting on this recently while discussing the evolution and definitions of employability, and the benefit of a shared understanding and conception. If we truly mean for the University of Edinburgh experience to be the launch pad for future career success, how does employability align with our learning and teaching?

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Terminalfour

MAY 17, 2018

How should your university react? It is not enough to have a customer service or public relations strategy in place.

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Terminalfour

MAY 24, 2018

We loved DePaul University’s idea of launching a separate Instagram account just for student stories.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

MAY 13, 2018

Curricular approaches are more than just writing and defining learning priorities, goals, outcomes. In many ways, implementing a curricular approach is as much about organizational change as it is about defining a structure. This is one of the reasons why Kerr, Tweedy, Edwards, and Kimmel (2017) call it a "paradigm shift." The word "paradigm" is most.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 3, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] Deborah Fowlis, Careers Consultant, shares with Teaching Matters how interactive workshops with chemical industry experts has helped Chemistry students prepare for the workplace… Many Chemistry students are keen to use their degree knowledge directly in a graduate job. It’s easy enough for them to get a feel for academic research while they are in the university environment but harder for them to envisage how chemistry can be used beyond this setting.

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