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To wrap up the year, this editorial post celebrates the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2018. This list captures some of the prevalent teaching and learning issues that have been swirling around the general HE zeitgeist this year. Interestingly, three of these posts were written in 2016, showing that the blog’s content is continually being accessed both nationally, and internationally.
MasterCard Foundation Scholars. Photo credit: Muturi Njeri. In this post, Pete Kingsley, the Student Development Coordinator on the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program , describes how the Reflective Coaching scheme is helping support African Mastercard Scholars during their time here at the University of Edinburgh… Over the next seven years, and beginning in 2016, the Mastercard Foundation is supporting 200 African students with full scholarships to study undergraduate and postgraduate
The main image of the Nitrogen MOOC – in Hungarian. In this post, Dr Andi Móring, from the School of GeoSciences , presents the University’s first ever Hungarian MOOC… On 1 st of October, 2018 the first ever Hungarian MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was launched by the University of Edinburgh on the EdX platform. This MOOC is the Hungarian version of the online course “Nitrogen: A Global Challenge” created at the School of GeoSciences under the lead of Prof.
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Coming back to campus after Thanksgiving may not sound like any fun. However, there is nothing like Christmas music and festive decorations to make the last couple weeks of the semester that much better. Holland, Michigan, may be well known as a beach town, but there is something so enchanting about 8th Street covered in snow and strung with lights and stockings above the Bultman Student Center fireplace.
All photos used with permission of the people in them. Photos taken by Hamish Macleod. In this post, Dr Jen Ross, co-director of the Centre of Research in Digital Education , details an international three-day workshop on online teaching, which was delivered to a group of academics in Istanbul who had been displaced to Turkey by the Syria crisis. The visit was orchestrated by Jon Turner, Institute for Academic Development (IAD) director, and one of the University of Edinburgh’s key links with t
All photos used with permission of the people in them. Photos taken by Hamish Macleod. In this post, Dr Jen Ross, co-director of the Centre of Research in Digital Education , details an international three-day workshop on online teaching, which was delivered to a group of academics in Istanbul who had been displaced to Turkey by the Syria crisis. The visit was orchestrated by Jon Turner, Institute for Academic Development (IAD) director, and one of the University of Edinburgh’s key links with t
Students hand-printing during Welcome Week 2018. Photo credit: Ye Zhiguo. In this post, Professor Mike Shipston, Professor Sue Welburn, Dr John Menzies, and Cristina Matthews, showcase the award-winning Zhejiang University – University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE) … It is not every day that a transformation in transnational educational programmes is realised.
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Credit: unsplash, @cferdo, CC0 This month’s issue celebrates global connections in learning and teaching. As Professor James Smith highlighted in an earlier blog post on Internationalisation and Teaching , University of Edinburgh is one of the most international universities in the world. Previous blog posts have highlighted international collaborations with Shanghai College of Fashion , partnerships with African scholars in the MasterCard Foundation Scholar programme , and the impact of
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Alliances, mergers, and acquisitions in Higher Ed aren’t new, but now it’s becoming commonplace. The higher ed sector has been relatively immune (or perhaps resistant?) to change since its inception, but in the past 10-15 years, and especially since the Great Recession, multiple things have changed, forcing changes on it. We now are seeing market forces unleashed, including consolidation, mergers/acquisitions, and closures, as weve rarely seen before (and not in my lifetime).
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