Will Richardson

APRIL 23, 2020

As educators, parents, and students have scrambled over the past couple of months to figure out how to move school online quickly and at scale, I can’t help but be reminded of a pivotal scene in the movie Apollo 13. After having to abandon their trip to the moon due to an explosion, the three astronauts suddenly find themselves struggling for oxygen in their emergency home in a lunar module designed to support only two people.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

Photo credit: Dan Meyers, Unsplash CC0 In this post for April’s theme on ‘Sustainability in the curriculum’, Rowan Jackson, Director of the Environmental Sustainability Masters programme, argues that fostering creativity and diversity in teaching styles and methods provides students with solid foundations for tackling complex sustainability issues… On the Environmental Sustainability MSc programme , here in the School of GeoSciences, we have incorporated sustainability in

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 29, 2020

Photo credit: Faruk Kaymak Unsplash CC0 For this Spotlight on Remote Teaching post, Dr Yahya Barry, Teaching Assistant and Research Fellow at Edinburgh’s Alwaleed Centre, discusses how Islamic law has responded to state-enforced social isolation measures in the wake of the Covonavirus pandemic. These questions will be explored further in the free online course The Sharia and Islamic Law: An Introduction , relaunching on 11 May 2020… Coronavirus has come and, with sheer draconian forc

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2020

Scenario, Risk, and Budget Planning: Is Your University’s Fall Term Toast? The spring terms at higher education institutions are just about history. But what can you do to save your 2021 enrollment?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 28, 2020

Photo credit: Kelly Sikkema, Unsplash CC0 In this Spotlight on Remote Teaching post, Suilin Lavelle, lecturer in Philosophy of the Mind, contributes to yesterday’s conversation on developing a positive supervisory relationship online by sharing practical tips on how to best support students in completing their Masters dissertation remotely… For many Masters students writing their dissertation is one of the most exciting and daunting challenges of their degree.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Glen Cousquer In this post Glen Cousquer, lecturer and coordinator of the MSc and MVetSci programmes in One Health and Conservation Medicine and recipient of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award , contemplates on the relationship between practising mindfulness and teaching about complex and transdisciplinary issues, like sustainability.

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Hope College Network

APRIL 16, 2020

Hope College is located in one of the best towns along the lakeshore… Holland, MI! There are tons of things to do in this awesome town, including the beach, Downtown Holland, Window on the Waterfront, Kollen Park, movie theaters and more. Downtown Holland, a.k.a. “Eighth Street”, is home to tons of incredible stores, restaurants, coffee shops, and boutiques.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 24, 2020

Pixabay, CC0 In this Spotlight on Remote Teaching post, Dr Jill MacKay, Lecturer in Veterinary Education, and Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement, introduce a new resource hub developed with contributions from across the sector and around the world to support technology enhanced learning… How has the Resource Hub been Developed? Each year the Quality Assurance Agency Scotland run a ‘Focus On’ project to support universities and students’ associations work in key areas.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2020

University Governance during Crisis Situations with Dr. Cathy Trower and Dr. Drumm McNaughton offers insights into the board’s role during a major crisis, such as the current pandemic. She discusses the importance of a partnership between the president and board chair as well as the communication channels that need to be created in a time of crisis.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 28, 2020

Photo credit: Suzanne Williams, Unsplash CC0 In yesterday’s post , Kelly Smith, Gill Aitken, Tim Fawns, and Derek Jones, summarized the key findings of a study they conducted on developing positive supervisory relationships online. In this second post, for the Spotlight on Remote Teaching series, Gill, Tim and Derek discuss the theoretical implications of the study and reflect on the wider benefits of online education… Between us we must have supervised well over a hundred dissertati

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Higher Ed Connects: Leadership

APRIL 15, 2020

By Paula Brantner. We live in extraordinary and uncertain times. Your decisions now are virtually guaranteed to have unintended consequences. There will be a ripple effect, even from making the best informed decisions that you have the capacity to make. Now is not the time to focus on liability and risk prevention, or to act conservatively in providing assistance to those acutely dependent on it. .

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Hope College Network

APRIL 14, 2020

The welcoming front doors of the Holland Free Health Clinic (HFHC) Growing up, I was involved in many activities in my community, one of which included my church’s youth group. Throughout the year, we helped the community by participating in tasks such as bell ringing around the holidays to help people in need, and in return, the community supported us for our annual mission trips.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 8, 2020

Photo credit: Tim Mossholder, Unsplash CC0 In this Mini-series on ‘Embedding belonging in the classroom’, Professor Patrick Walsh, Professor Heather McQueen and Dr Nadia Tuzi chat to us about what led them to rethink the entire first year Biology curriculum around community, inclusion and belonging… A student’s sense of belonging, or ‘connectedness’ to other students and staff on their course, and to their discipline, is of immense importance not only with respect to surviving the e

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on remote teaching’ post, Yi-Shan Tsai, research associate at the School of Informatics, talks about the advantages and challenges of blended learning design and what questions to consider when adopting this approach. These issues will be discussed in great detail in the upcoming free and online course “Making Blended Education Work” starting May 11th… In the recent New Media Consortium horizon report (Alex

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2020

Dr. Drumm McNaughton guest spot on, Implementing Sustainable Change in Higher Ed Change podcast, with Blackbaud discusses how change comes in many different forms, whether it’s a new technology initiative, a new stakeholder or student engagement approach, change in leadership, crisis resolution, etc. So, what are the steps that institutions can take to implement sustainable change and realize the vision they’re trying to create through any transformation?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

Photo credit: Alice Donovan, Unsplash CC0 In this Mini-Series on ‘Embedding Belonging in the Classroom’ , Kirsty Stewart, from the Careers Service, chats to us about how Making Transitions Personal can help students prepare for the future, and instil a sense of belonging before they even arrive on campus… Background Research shows that engaging with students early can help with their sense of belonging by enabling both students and staff to understand students’ expectations and incre

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

APRIL 7, 2020

I’m excited to release the new fourth edition of my eBook on residential curriculum and curricular approaches, sponsored by Roompact. The content is expanded from the third edition and now includes more visuals and worksheets. It is also now designed in an 8.5 x 11 format. This should make it easier to print, if you wish! As before, it remains freely available for you to download and use.

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Hope College Network

APRIL 14, 2020

Students at Hope College are highly encouraged to study off-campus at some point throughout their four-year experience. With more than 300 programs in over 60 different countries, there is a program for you! Many students will study abroad for an entire semester, or there is the option to travel off-campus for a May, June or July term. If you are not interested in traveling abroad, there are also opportunities to study in a variety of cities across the country!

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Study Aborad Association

APRIL 5, 2020

As the current COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the globe, thousands of students and faculty have been forced to rapidly abandon their study abroad programs to return to the safety of home. The threat of coronavirus has placed the world in an unprecedented situation and the U.S. Department of State has even gone as far as to issue a level four warning for citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impacts of the virus.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 15, 2020

Photo credit: CC0 [link] In this Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods post, Professor Tim Drysdale, Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education in the School of Engineering, offers an open source solution to managing student marking in the remote era. Tim reflects on the historical record-keeping power of paper, and shows how it can be mimicked in PDF form… There’s a trusted certainty to the permanence of paper.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2020

Innovation and Crises Opportunities for Higher Ed with Dr. Bridget Burns and Dr. Drumm McNaughton you’ll gain insights on how higher education can turn crises into opportunities and transformation. Higher Ed traditionally does not move quickly when it comes to innovation and how to change the status quo. However, the current situation with the COVID-19 […] Innovation and Crises Opportunities for Higher Ed Podcast you'll gain insights on how higher ed can turn crises into opportunitie

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 6, 2020

Photo credit: Pixabay, ribkhan, CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on remote teaching’ post, Professor Michael Seery, Director of Teaching, and Dr Chris Mowat, Senior Personal Tutor, share five approaches they have developed along with colleagues in the School of Chemistry to help students manage the increase in communications, the changing nature of academic and personal support, and how to approach assessments during Covid-19… The end of academic year is a busy time for students in norm

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2020

Photo credit: veeterzy, Unsplash CC0 Welcome to the April issue: Embedding sustainability in the curriculum As the world as we know is shifting every day due to the current pandemic, this monthly theme presents itself at an opportune time. With signs that slowing human activity might be giving the environment some momentary respite , reflections on how to embed sustainability in the curriculum seem particularly inspiring and timely.

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Hope College Network

APRIL 9, 2020

With just over three thousand students on Hope College’s campus, there are many who come from across the country and around the world. Each year, about one-third of the student body travels from outside Michigan to attend school at Hope College. There are quite a few students that come from different countries too – over 30 countries are represented by students currently studying at Hope!

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Terminalfour

APRIL 7, 2020

How are institutions getting the best out of their digital teams? And how can you go about amplifying their impact across departments?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 3, 2020

Photo Credit: Suhyeon Choi, Unsplash CC0 In this Spotlight on Remote Teaching post, Lisa Howard, a senior PhD tutor in Sustainable Development, reflects on the rapid transition towards online tutoring, and the challenges that she has faced during her tutorials in the last couple weeks… I’m a senior tutor and this is my third semester of teaching sustainable development.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2020

How to Lead Higher Ed Through Crisis and Turbulent Times podcast examines ways in which higher education was already facing major challenges, but an unprecedented black swan event – the COVID-19 pandemic—is testing the resiliency of colleges and universities across the country. Long-time education leader Dr. E. Gordon Gee offers the wisdom he has gained from serving as a university president for 40 years.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

APRIL 6, 2020

Thinking Cap Agency find students more likely to attend virtual tours and delay admission. March survey results by Thinking Cap Agency , a media partner for university enrollment marketing, show that the coronavirus is changing attitudes toward how students consider what schools to attend. The study of 1,900 college students found that just over half (52%) of transfer students are likely to take virtual tours instead of visiting open houses on campus.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 1, 2020

Photo credit: Perry Grone, Unsplash CC0 In this Mini-Series on Embedding Belonging in the Classroom , Emma Sharland, a fifth year medical student, talks to us about her experience in the Edinburgh Medical School, and the importance of great transitions to ensure students feel they belong from day one… It is well known that the transition between school and university is a turbulent time.

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Hope College Network

APRIL 7, 2020

At Hope College, there is always something for students to get involved in! On the last day of Orientation, students have the chance to learn all about what you can take part in during your time at Hope. Getting involved is what helps students become rooted in a community – whether it be the Student Activities Committee (SAC for short), Student Congress, the Multicultural Student Organizations, Greek Life, the Pull and Nykerk, Small Group Bible Studies, Volunteer Services, Immersion Trips,

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Terminalfour

APRIL 27, 2020

Now is also a great time for institutions to have a clear out and focus on raising website content standards

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Higher Ed Connects: Mental Health

APRIL 10, 2020

By Steve Joordens. How are you? Don’t tell me, I know. Given all that is going on related to COVID-19 — the health worries, the money worries, the “what the heck comes next?” worries — you’re feeling anxious. We all are. This article provides some highlights of my free online course called Mind Control: Managing Your Anxiety During COVID19 , that is focused on helping people manage their anxiety during this crisis.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2020

Higher Ed leadership styles in crisis require an institution's leadership to muster its resources very quickly. Training leadership for these moments is critical to sustainable success.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 27, 2020

Photo credit: Unsplash,CC0 In this Spotlight on Remote Teaching post, Kelly Smith, Gill Aitken, Tim Fawns and Derek Jones, share the key findings of a study they conducted on developing positive supervisory relationships in online Masters dissertation… Many more of us will be supervising (and possibly undertaking) dissertations online, and while this might be unsettling for some, it can be a positive and rewarding experience.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2020

Photo credit: veeterzy, Unsplash CC0 Welcome to the April issue: Embedding sustainability in the curriculum As the world as we know is shifting every day due to the current pandemic, this monthly theme presents itself at an opportune time. With signs that slowing human activity might be giving the environment some momentary respite , reflections on how to embed sustainability in the curriculum seem particularly inspiring and timely.

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Hope College Network

APRIL 2, 2020

Living in the residence halls on campus is always one of the best parts of freshman year. With eleven different residence halls to choose from, ranging from traditional community, suite or cluster style living, there is a hall for everyone to call home during their first year. The Residential Life staff in each of the halls are always there for you, supporting you when you need it and hosting events for the residents to build community and connections.

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Terminalfour

APRIL 14, 2020

Google's changed the playing field (again).

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