Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, Pexels, CC0 In this mental health and wellbeing mini-series post, Dr Sue Fletcher-Watson and Dr Natalie Jenkins, from Edinburgh Medical School, discuss how autistic students’ wellbeing is being supported at The University of Edinburgh… There are 150 students at University of Edinburgh who have disclosed an autism diagnosis, but since autism occurs in 1% of the UK population, the true number should be at least 300.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Elizabeth Jamieson, CC0 In this post, Dr Daniel Kenealy, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, presents his six top tips for organising student work placements One of my most challenging but rewarding tasks has been the development of around eighty ‘Capstone’ placements for postgraduate students enrolled on a Master of Public Policy programme.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 30, 2019

A 4th year Cyprus Field Trip. Photo credit: Louis Kinnear. In this post, Dr Gillian McCay, assistant curator of the Cockburn Geological Museum, reflects on the transformative experience of fieldwork for Earth Science students… If you ask a group of Earth Scientists what a liminal experience is, I can safely say that most of them will look at you like you have just spoken in dolphin whistles and clicks… But what most people don’t appreciate is that liminality is in fact a concept that is ce

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 25, 2019

Students and staff from LAACLab enjoying some fresh air during their writing retreat In this post, Emily Harding, a MSc student studying Psychology of Mental Health in the School of Health and Social Sciences, reflects on a recent research writing retreat for students and staff… Earlier this year I received an invitation to join LAACLab. LAACLab is run by Emily Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the School of Health in Social Science.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 17, 2019

Facing declining enrollments due to changing demographics and societal factors, many higher education institutions are engaging in marketing practices that don’t make sense. Instead, institutions should consider embracing marketing strategies that are based on informal and formal market research. Developing these strategies should include reviewing current messages, crafting new messages, and reallocating resources from ineffective marketing efforts to promising pilot programs.

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Higher Ed Connects: Ed Tech

JULY 15, 2019

Relecura is a technology exploration and invention analysis platform for researchers, academics, IP professionals and business leaders. Research directors can use Relecura’s AI/ML-based advanced analytics to accurately track technology trends, plan research programs and identify potential sponsors for research. With its world-class cognitive platform, Relecura enables researchers and students to support their study and research through machine-guided exploration and discovery of relevant informa

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this extra post, Professor Tina Harrison, Assistant Principal Academic Standards and Quality Assurance and Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption , and Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services , explain the importance of mid-course feedback for both staff and students, and present findings from a recent evaluation to determine the effectiveness of mid-course feedback across the University, as well

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 30, 2019

Visit to Bramham Park, October of 2018, Photo by: Anna Rhodes In this post, Dr Francisca Lima, a landscape designer and a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, reflects on the process of un-silencing during fieldtrips… I am usually faced with long periods of silence during a fieldtrip with the first-year students of Landscape Architecture to emblematic English gardens like Stowe, Rousham, Bramham, Hidcote, or Chatsworth.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JULY 12, 2019

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and Examples Assessment Data and Exercises Throughout the Year After determining the goals and outcomes for a curriculum, the magic happens when you begin scaf

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 17, 2019

Creating Education Pathways for First Generation Students on the Changing Higher Ed Podcast. Dr. Karen Haynes retired as president of Cal State San Marcos on June 30, 2019. She was the longest-seated president in the CSU system and the first woman to hold this role in history. Haynes began her presidency in 2004 when the institution had a student population of 7,000 and an alumni base of 13,000.

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Higher Ed Connects: Ed Tech

JULY 12, 2019

Virtue Analytics Enrollment Management platform allows educational institutions to leverage the power of machine learning and predictive modeling to make better decisions across the admissions process. Customized to the institution’s environment, Virtue provides student-specific recommendations, related to admissions, financial aid & retention, enabling better outcomes for the student and delivering increased revenue to the institution.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 24, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, milkyway 4567, CC0 In this mental health and wellbeing mini-series post, Dr Louise Horsfall, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, showcase the SolidariTEA initiative, which is a supportive, confidential and relaxed coffee morning for PhD students to discuss problems affecting their work or personal life… In any professional environment it can take courage to ask for help with the technical aspects of a project.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 18, 2019

The University of Edinburgh, McEwan Hall, Careers Fair Day, Photo credit: Neil Hanna Photography. In this post, Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement Manager in the Careers Service, explains why p lacements and fieldwork are a great start to career exploration that will also be valued by future employers… The value of placements and fieldwork is fairly self-explanatory: both build work experience.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 23, 2019

‘Setting up a market stall’ – Time-lapse photographic sequence. Emma Bush, Master of Architecture fieldtrip to Cadiz, Spain, 2006. In this post, Suzanne Ewing, Professor of Architectural Criticism, reflects on the itinerant nature of fieldwork in architecture, where students travel back and forth from the stud io to the field as part of their acculturation into the discipline… [Architecture] students learn on fieldtrips to look for sites, to frame and limit sites, to project potenti

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Terminalfour

JULY 16, 2019

With universities launching robot deliveries and other innovations on campus this year we look at how to create a buzz about them using digital marketing

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 31, 2019

How to Prevent Accreditation Issues Due to Governance Failures is a case study demonstrating governance failure's role in accreditation crisis.

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HECG

JULY 21, 2019

By DAVID WRIGHT. Today we build companies that are designed to meet a specified and known need. Most of these companies will not succeed in the future. Today, we educate and develop people based on defined careers or professions – many of which will not exist in the future. How do we create companies and people that are most likely to thrive in an economy already being disrupted by Artificial Intelligence and new automation technologies?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 17, 2019

Anonymous Valentine event at WellCommKings. Photo credit: Rosie Taylor In this mini-series post, Rosie Taylor, a BSc Biological Sciences student and the current Student’s Association LGBT+ Officer, discusses how seeking out peer support is highly beneficial for student wellbeing, and showcases the great work of WellCommKings, a peer support group for students at King’s Buildings… Sometimes the ‘University Experience’ feels completely overwhelming.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Digital5 Elements, CC0 In this post, Deborah Holt, Bicentennial Fellow in the Moray House School of Education, highlights how she works with her alumnae teachers to support and engage her students for professional life as teachers… I work in Initial Teacher Education and a substantial part of my work is to prepare students practically, emotionally and academically for professional practice during their programmes and for their first year in the profession.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 16, 2019

Fieldwork at Rogie Falls with Leonie Mhari, January 2019. Photo credit: Elinor Scarth. In this post, Elinor Scarth, a landscape architect and lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, reflects on students’ experiences of being immersed in the field, and how it can open up moments of experimentation and creativity… I am floating on the horizontal surface of a transparent florescent orange inflatable lilo in the Firth of Forth.

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Terminalfour

JULY 18, 2019

We have hit a milestone - our 300th post on the TerminalFour blog. To celebrate, we’re looking back over our most popular posts from the past five years.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JULY 15, 2019

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and Examples Assessment Data and Exercises Throughout the Year RA training does not just end with the opening of the residence halls in the Fall, but is an eff

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HECG

JULY 28, 2019

By DAVID MYTON. Fasten your seat belts: the academic conference as we know it is encountering severe turbulence as it flies into a storm sparked by climate change – and it may not survive unscathed. It’s estimated that aviation accounts for 2% to 3% of global, man-made CO₂ emissions – and people flying to academic conferences are contributing a sizeable chunk of that figure.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 8, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Nicole Honeywell, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Lawrence Dritsas, a Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at the School of Social and Political Science, describes an innovative assessment based on students’ reflection on their tutorial preparation and engagement… I lead the pre-Honours course, Science, Nature and Environmen t, which is a ‘sensitising’ course that explores the social aspects of scientific knowledge, and focuses on how we understand and

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2019

Photo credit: thebostonpilot.com, CC0 In this post, Dr Sergei Plekhanov, a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Economics, highlights a sponsored dissertation scheme, which connects undergraduate economic students with organisations who need real-life problems researched… Do you remember you first big piece of individual work? For many of us it was our undergraduate dissertation.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 3, 2019

In this post, Andy Shanks, Director of Student Wellbeing , introduces the latest mini-series, which explores the links between learning and teaching and mental health and wellbeing at The University of Edinburgh… It is fantastic to be writing the first of nine blogs on mental health and wellbeing as part of this mini-series , especially as these themes continue to be at the heart of many conversations on how we can improve the student experience here at the University of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 2, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, Christopher Burns, CC0 Welcome to the July issue of Teaching Matters: Placements and fieldwork This issue welcomes contributions that highlight and reflect on placement and fieldwork opportunities throughout The University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh College of Art , School of Economics , Careers Service , School of GeoSciences , and Moray House School of Education.

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Terminalfour

JULY 2, 2019

OPMs need to be at the forefront of digital marketing to recruit students to online degree programs. But what can institutions learn from their tactics?

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Terminalfour

JULY 29, 2019

This week we trawled the websites of almost every university in the UK to find the emerging trends, new features and best campaigns in clearing 2019

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Terminalfour

JULY 9, 2019

It's only 6 weeks until A level results day in the UK. How prepared is your institution for Clearing and what can we learn from last year.

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Terminalfour

JULY 11, 2019

Tonight we’re celebrating innovations in education marketing and cheering on our wonderful clients who are shortlisted.

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Terminalfour

JULY 23, 2019

Today's students are using a huge range of tools to help determine which university is the best fit for them.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JULY 14, 2019

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and Examples Assessment Data and Exercises Throughout the Year Assessment has an important role to play when designing your RA Training efforts, both in terms

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JULY 13, 2019

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and Examples Assessment Data and Exercises Throughout the Year The following are some further topics, resources, and examples you may want to explore when re-e

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JULY 11, 2019

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and Examples Assessment Data and Exercises Throughout the Year One of the more misunderstood shifts in the change from a program model to a residential curricu

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JULY 10, 2019

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and Examples Assessment Data and Exercises Throughout the Year Typically the residence life academic year begins with a lengthy period of training, before the

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JULY 10, 2019

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and Examples Assessment Data and Exercises Throughout the Year In order for a residential curriculum to be successful, the staff implementing a curriculum need

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