Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 20, 2016

Louis Thurston’s work (circa 1927) developing the ‘Law of Comparative Judgment’ demonstrated that people are very good at making accurate relative-value judgments between two choices but less reliable when assigning absolute values within a scale of measurement. Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ) is the 21st century version and is now fully facilitated online, making the process logistically feasible at scale.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 16, 2016

Do you use technology in your teaching and learning? Interesting in talking more with others who work with learning technology? In January 2016 the elearning@ed committee and IS – Learning, Teaching & Web teams set up a monthly event to raise awareness of different uses and ideas for how learning technologies are used across the University to improve teaching, learning, and the student experience.

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Terminalfour

JUNE 1, 2016

Would you be willing to let your students join the Governing body?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 10, 2016

The Conservation Science course on the top of Cairngorm Mountain after discussing how to conserve Scotland’s alpine ecosystem that is threatened by climate change. A student and a teacher from the Conservation Science course in the School of Geosciences share their thoughts on what makes good teaching. Gergana Daskalova (student in the University of Edinburgh 2015 Conservation Science Course): It is such a fantastic experience when you are not only taught, but also inspired – I want to become a

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 7, 2016

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… ” is a good opening to a story, and an appropriate theme for a discussion of the state of contemporary computer aided assessment (CAA). Automatic online assessment has moved a long way beyond multiple choice and other similar question types. In my own discipline of mathematics it is now relatively standard practice to accept answers from students in the form of an algebraic expression.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 1, 2016

Formative online quizzes have been shown to be useful in helping students engage with course material and provide feedback on their understanding of a topic. They can help students structure their study time by providing prompts on areas of difficulty. I decided to incorporate formative feedback through quizzes in my own teaching. A number of questions with detailed feedback were written to accompany a second year course in crystallography – the following summarises the intentions and outcomes o

Student Engagement 52

Student Engagement IT Education 52

Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 1, 2016

In the School of Divinity, Ethics and Society has always been a popular course. When enrolments exceeded the capacity of our biggest lecture theatre, we put in place a plan to live stream the lectures to an overflow room, using Panopto. Because this automatically records the lectures, they can easily be made available for later viewing on a course’s Learn site.

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Terminalfour

JUNE 30, 2016

Dutch student Jesse Zondervan documents his year in OZ

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Terminalfour

JUNE 9, 2016

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Terminalfour

JUNE 21, 2016

TERMINALFOUR's 3rd Annual Higher Education Survey

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