Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 19, 2018

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

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 As part of its ambitious Vision 2025 strategy, the University of Edinburgh is committed to provide all students with an international experience. In this post, Dr Justine Seran, who works in Go Abroad, explains how Edinburgh Global is keen to build capacity and develop skills in virtual exchange and experiential learning to provide new, flexible opportunities for students who cannot go on traditional year-long exchanges abroad… With our university graduates e

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

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.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Don’t be afraid of what your students have to say and they may just turn out to be your biggest advocates! A first for Loughborough University!

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

By DAVID MYTON. Whatever the future holds, investment in human capital is “a no-regrets policy” that prepares people for the challenges ahead, says the World Bank in its latest examination of the changing nature of work. Three types of skills, it says, are increasingly important in today’s labour markets: Advanced cognitive skills such as complex problem-solving.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2018

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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Image credit: Chris Sheridan Following on from last month’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Week , this extra post sees Chris Sheridan, eLearning coordinator for the Clinical Trials programme with the Usher Institute, exploring how monitoring online activity using learning analytics can help staff spot at-risk students… It’s the start of term.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Students in front of their posters at the Global Challenges in Business 2018 Poster Awards Ceremony In this post, Business with Marketing student, Dasha Selivanova, reports back on the Global Challenges in Business Awards Ceremony Night 2018… Most students who have just joined university are nervous, shy, don’t know how to cook, and are confused about all the academia.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 5, 2018

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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