Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 30, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, Hans, CC0 In this post, Dr Elizabeth Vander Meer discusses the University strategy for protecting, enhancing and engaging with biodiversity and highlights two student led projects supporting the development of this strategy… Estates and the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS) , with support from other staff, students and external organisations, have been developing a strategy for protecting, enhancing and engaging with biodiversity on campus

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2019

Preparing Students for Life Beyond University: The Higher Purpose of Education Podcast with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Dan Pugh. We find ourselves in a political climate where many say that college graduates are not ready to join the workforce. This is true in many respects, but the greater truth is that the majority of higher ed has lost its way when it comes to preparing students for life, something equally if not more important than being prepared to assume a position in the workforce

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, stevepb, CC0 In this blog, Dr Jeni Harden, from the Usher Institute, and Dr Sam Fawkner, from the Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences, outline a staff-student partnership project through which they developed a flipped teaching session for first year medical students to facilitate learning on physical activity for health… Despite the importance of physical activity promotion for both disease prevention and treatment, we were aware that it was n

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 24, 2019

I love residential life on Hope College’s campus maybe just a little too much. Over the last three years of living on Hope’s campus, I have enjoyed spending the last two being a Resident Assistant (also affectionately known as a R.A.) to the women of Phelps Hall and Mayor’s Cottage. Living on-campus has shaped me to be a much better person than I was when I entered college.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 23, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this mini-series post , Kerry Cheek, gives insight into how her module in Case Studies in Sustainable Development helped improve student employability… ‘Sustainable development’ is a broad term, especially to an Environmental Sustainability Masters student. Therefore, it wasn’t immediately clear what the Case Studies in Sustainable Development course would entail when I enrolled last year.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JANUARY 22, 2019

One of the hallmarks of curricular approaches to student learning outside the classroom is that learning is scaffolded and sequenced to follow a student’s journey through their time in college. After educators identify their learning objectives (cascading from Educational Priority, to Learning Goals, Narratives, Rubrics, and Outcomes), the next step in the process is to map out objectives and sequence them to allow for cumulative learning.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 29, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, currens, CC0 Emily Hochkins, a fourth year veterinary student working towards her veterinary teaching qualification , was offered, along with several others, the opportunity to take part in designing an optional “negotiation skills” class for first year students. In this post, she describes how they designed a zombie apocalypse scenario to help students learn about dealing with failure… The original idea of this “negotiation skills” class was to design a

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, HarryJBurgess, CC0 In this post, Vanessa Ombura, a third year Civil Engineering student, describes her experience co-creating an interdisciplinary, online University-wide course, with the city of Edinburgh as a site of learning… Over the summer of 2018, I had the wonderful opportunity of working under the Usher Institute and the Moray House School of Education to design an interdisciplinary, online University-wide course on the city of Edinburgh, together with two fe

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 21, 2019

Feel like you’re swimming in questions about searching for the right college? You’re not alone! In this series, “Once in Your Shoes,” four Hope families share their wisdom about the college search process as they were once in your shoes. We’ve asked these families some admissions-related questions, with the goal of letting their experiences help you.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’ In this post, Rosalyn Claase (Head of Student Experience), Rona Doig (Student Development Manager) and Kate Schafferius (Student Support Leader) explain how they came up with a solution… Based on our alumni and Desti

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 10, 2019

SPS in Practice students who co-designed Understanding Gender course. There is an increasing emphasis in higher education on promoting student voice and engagement, positioning students as partners in the teaching and learning process. There are multiple projects underway across the University in this respect. In this post, Dr Meryl Kenny, describes one such project: the student-staff co-creation of the pre-Honours course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World , as part of the University

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 16, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this mini-series post , Matthew Lawson from the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability at the University, gives an insight into developing extra-curricular opportunities for students in sustainable development… Students care about sustainability. We see this through the many actions of students in their campuses and local communities.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 24, 2019

To kick start the year we've explored hundreds of Instagram accounts to compile a round-up of some of the best out there and what they’re doing to stand out.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 22, 2019

Higher Ed News: 116th Congress, Negotiated Rulemaking Process and Education Department Reorganization.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 15, 2019

Feel like you’re swimming in questions about searching for the right college? You’re not alone! In this series, “Once in Your Shoes,” four Hope families share their wisdom about the college search process as they were once in your shoes. We’ve asked these families some admissions-related questions, with the goal of letting their experiences help you.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 14, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Elijah O’Donnell, CC0 This post about the Joint Degree Project, by Chris Perkins, is a continuation of Jackie’s train of thought on best practice from late last year, so if you haven’t read that, please do…! Over the past few months, the team in the Joint Degrees Project have met with lots of people across the college, as you would expect from a project that looks at joint degrees.

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Collegis Education Data Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

How breaking away from fragmented fixes can help colleges meet revenue goals. Recently, a college president shared with Collegis that it’s not unusual for his various teams to need a couple of weeks to respond to requests for data. But, he wants to move faster. He’s always thinking about how his college might be as competitive as possible. In today’s world, that means keeping up with the fast pace of digital information.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

Credit: pixabay, Free-Photos, CC0 In this post, Matjaz Vidmar, a doctoral student in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, presents another approach to co-creation with undergraduate students: the co-production of interdisciplinary research design and outputs… Currently, it seems that transferable skills and graduate attributes are being pushed to the fore of the “modern graduate degree” programmes.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 17, 2019

In the first installment of this blog series, we took a look at five of our favorite higher ed digital marketing campaigns in 2018. Now the top 5. Enjoy!

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

Union Canal – Fountainbridge Moorings. Credit: Stephen Craven, CC0 The Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS) is curating a mini-series of blog posts on learning, teaching and sustainability for Teaching Matters. T he mini-series hopes to capture a breadth of activities happening across campuses, to inspire staff and students to participate and expand on current offerings.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Taylor Barber, CC0 In this post, PhD student Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka explains what the term ‘co-creation of the curriculum’ means, and how it can be an effective student partnership approach… Co-creation of the curriculum is one form of engagement in undergraduate learning and teaching in which students and staff work in partnership so that each has a voice and a stake in curriculum development.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 8, 2019

Feel like you’re swimming in questions about searching for the right college? You’re not alone! In this series, “Once in Your Shoes,” four Hope families share their wisdom about the college search process as they were once in your shoes. We’ve asked these families some admissions-related questions, with the goal of letting their experiences help you.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 7, 2019

Feel like you’re swimming in questions about searching for the right college? You’re not alone! In this series, “Once in Your Shoes,” four Hope families share their wisdom about the college search process as they were once in your shoes. We’ve asked these families some admissions-related questions, with the goal of letting their experiences help you.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 29, 2019

There are plenty of products out there that coordinate the posting, scheduling, and monitoring of your social media. We outline how to assess the best.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 13, 2019

Each New Year, we always look back on what stood out to us as digital marketing highlights in the higher education sector the previous year.

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