Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Photo credit: India trek students Dr Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Business School, talks to Teaching Matters about the huge challenges we are facing in HE to help students engage with problems that are truly relevant – especially the complex issues around social inclusion and environmental sustainability. In designing a unique experience involving 24 students from multiple disciplines trekking across India, Winston describes how he is tackling this challenge… How can we use ou

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 In this post, Jill MacKay, a research fellow from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Principal Investigator leading the University’s lecture recording evaluation, shares some of the findings and conclusions from the evaluation, and poses some fundamental questions about learning and teaching… I have a confession.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Following on from her colleague Neil Hudson and vet student Vikky Park’s blog, Kirsty Hughes, Research Assistant in Veterinary Medical Education, shares a little of her experience working with some of the veterinary students as they work towards applying for Associate Fellowship of the HEA (AFHEA)… At the vet school, the students who go for AFHEA are a subset of those working towards the Undergraduate Certificate in Veteri

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, workandapix, CC0 How do you engage students in large lectures? Richard Gratwick, University Teacher in the School of Mathematics, describes how he redesigned the “skills” component of a third-year mathematics course to ensure that students in a large lecture got extensive practise in developing their presentation skills… Giving a presentation will be an unavoidable exercise for most of our graduates.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Once a department or division articulates the goals, outcomes, and objectives it hopes to achieve, and they’ve undergone the work to rubric, map, and sequence these objectives, the final step in the process is the development of an overall educational plan. Educational plans function much like blueprints. As plans, they outline time-based progression through the.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Staff and three students meeting for a chat on the Coffee and Cake Conversation initiative September’s introductory blog post is written by Dr Cathy Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development. Cathy explores the term ‘student engagement’, before offering an insight into a recent University student engagement initiative: Coffee and Cake Conversations… Most universities use the term ‘student engagement’ to denote a range of activ

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, andreas160578, CC0 As first and second programme directors, and respective organisers of two innovative, experiential MA courses in the School of Health in Social Sciences, Alette Willis and Marion Smith, chat about the benefits for learning through student engagement with the local community… Alette begins: We are launching a new experiential learning course on the MA in Health, Science and Society: Nature, Greenspace and Health (SHSS10010).

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Photo credit: Flickr, Muffet, CC0 In this post, a visiting Research Fellow from Australia, Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, explores the question: is scaling-up of student-staff partnership initiatives necessarily a good approach?… I have recently joined IAD as an Endeavour Research Fellow for six months working on research that explores systematic approaches to scaling up student-staff partnership (also known as ‘students as partners’) in higher education institutions, through the lens of i

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Presentation practice! This summer I have had the pleasure and the privilege of taking part in the University’s Employ.ed on Campus 2018 programme. Employ.ed on Campus is a structured internship programme for undergraduate students in their 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year. Not only does it involve paid work experience in numerous departments across the University, there is also the opportunity to complete an Edinburgh Award.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

An important element of developing residential curriculum involves scaffolding and sequencing learning. Rubrics, or tools developed for the purposes of scoring and rating development along a scale, can be useful in this scaffolding and sequencing process. As discussed earlier, residential curriculum rubrics break down learning outcomes into successive stages of development and mastery.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Credit: Mihaela Bodlovic September rolls in on the back of a wonderful month of festival and fringe delights. Congratulations to all those who performed at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas – it was a huge success! This month’s theme focuses on student engagement. How students are inspired and motivated to invest in their learning, what sort of initiatives and spaces institutions create to support engaged learners, and how students can shape the direction of their learning, are all que

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Photo credit: Flip Design Agency Following on from her earlier post this year , Zoe Patterson, Programme Director for Graphic Design at ECA, describes another student engagement initiative that benefits both undergraduate and school students… What the f**k is Graphic Design? wasn’t the actual title we used when embedding our Designer in Residence scheme into six local Primary and Secondary Schools.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Over the next few months, every Wednesday, Teaching Matters will examine a different aspect of lecture recording as part of a mini-series showcasing how we are using and evaluating Media Hopper Replay. Here, Anne-Marie Scott, Deputy Director of Learning, Teaching and Web, ISG and service owner for CaptureEd, Media Hopper Replay and Media Hopper Create, reviews the history of lecture recording at University of Edinburgh and the implementation of a centrally supported service… Lecture record

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Professor Susan Rhind, Chair of the lecture recording Academic User Group and Director of Teaching at the Vet School, reviews the first year of Media Hopper Replay. She shares some of the themes that have emerged and considers what research published this year is telling us about lecture recording, as a prelude to our own evaluation report to be launched here next week.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, geralt, CC0 As we said in our first post , the next step in our Joint Degrees Project was to look through all the data we have on joint degrees to get a better feel for what works and, perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t. Our investigations are ongoing, and we are yet to conduct our interviews with staff and students. However, we do have some findings worth sharing.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I provide a number of training and consulting services for professionals in college housing and residence life. In the course of developing materials for these services, we've identified a number of high quality videos that address topics related to higher education and student learning. The following are some of our favorites that make excellent conversation starters for.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We have seen some pretty amazing Welcome videos in our time but we have to say this series from the University of Michigan has got to be our all-time favorite.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

UCVME students receiving their Certificates at the Vet School prize-giving Summer 2018. Photo credit: Vet School In this post, a clinical veterinary student, Vikky Park, and veterinary teacher, Neil Hudson, from Edinburgh’s Vet School, share their thoughts on working together on the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education… Vikky, Final Year Vet Student: I signed up for the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education (UCVME) in hopes of gaining more experienc

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A trophy sent to the course organisers in response to their experiences with the IDGBL course cup! Photo credit: Clara O’Shea Clara O’Shea, an associate lecturer at Moray House School of Education, has been grappling with a problem: How do you get students to engage critically with each other and the course materials in a postgraduate, online course taken by part-time students across the globe?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, rory3822, CC0 In this post, Joanna Fairweather, a HR/OD Partner in the Learning and Development Team, writes about staff members’ experiences as students, and the importance of engaging all members of the University as lifelong learners. The Learning and Development Team are part of Human Resources, and provide development opportunities and courses and resources to enable University staff and leaders achieve success in their current and future roles.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, goranmx, CC0 One of the biggest drivers for lecture recording has always been to provide greater support for our diverse student community through supplementing existing digital resources with recordings of lectures. As we welcome new students to Edinburgh, and prepare for a new year of teaching, Melissa Highton, Director in ISG and Assistant Principal for Online Learning, reflects on why the University is making lecture recording available at scale… The University is comm

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Automated communications are a relatively new way for students to get information but they’re set to have a bigger impact on recruitment and for students.

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Terminalfour

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Data shows that a student attending a Campus Visit has a 80% higher chance of applying. How can technology make it a better experience?

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When encountering the curricular approach for the first time, many staff may wonder why the approach has gained such currency within student affairs and residence life and what research and data backs up and supports its use. When asking these questions, it is important to understand that the curricular approach is a model of how.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Once you have decided on your educational priority, learning goals, narratives, and learning outcomes, and developed rubrics, it is time to begin putting these educational objectives into action through strategies. Strategies are the vehicles for educational delivery. They can include activities such as programs and events, newsletters, and guided community or individual conversations.

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