Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, annca, CC0 In this post, Ana Fialho, a PhD Physics student and PhD Horizons Careers Conference Intern, shares her views on an event that aims to show postgraduate students the career potential of holding a PhD degree… More than half of PhD graduates in the UK pursue a career outside of academia [1]. This means that around 50% of PhD graduates are effectively going through a career change at the end of their degrees (with the exception perhaps of those who will go on to do

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 26, 2018

Credit: CC0 Pixabay, Bess-Hamiti A common issue that many early career postgraduate tutors and demonstrators face once they’ve overcome the whirlwind that can be the first few terms of teaching, and they’ve settled into rhythm of it all, is one of progression. How do we make the most of the classroom opportunities we have? How can we provide the best possible experience for our students, whilst also advancing our own practice and career, alongside our postgraduate studies or research?

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Hope College Network

JULY 24, 2018

When your parents first drop you off at Hope, it is hard to imagine that you might not want to go back to “home sweet home” next summer. Holland is an enjoyable city to be in from Fall to Spring, but summertime is prime time for this beach town. Locals will tell you that Hope students are truly missing out when they pack their bags for summer, only to return when classes start up for fall.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 17, 2018

Natural box, designed by Claudia Muciño and Mariela Martinez Building Futures , an inspiring exhibition resulting from the collaborative efforts of two student groups, featured at the Planetary Health Conference held at the University of Edinburgh on 29-31 May. The partnership project resulted from a collaboration between Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS) and the MSc Advanced Sustainable Design thanks to its director, John Brennan.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JULY 4, 2018

This week’s installment from the Near Future Teaching project tackles the teaching method which is – arguably – the signature pedagogy of higher education, and one which emerged strongly from the interviews, focus groups, and events we conducted as part of the project: lectures. Lectures have also been the subject of a few previous Teaching Matters posts and a topic for current funded research as part of the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme at Edinburgh.

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Terminalfour

JULY 16, 2018

To coincide with the launch of Trainspotting 2, Edinburgh Napier University created a recruitment campaign with a difference.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 3, 2018

In this post, Chris Sheridan, eLearning coordinator for the Clinical Trials programme with the Usher Institute, demonstrates how Moodle can operate as an online induction tool… As we know through our students, or perhaps firsthand, interacting with a new course is overwhelming whatever the setting, be it online or on-campus. Fully online students may struggle without physical presence and friendly faces to keep them moving in the right direction.

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Collegis Education Data Management

JULY 31, 2018

Collegis Education Sr. Marketing Technology Manager Dan Antonson presented on “Using Search and AI-Driven Analytics to Deliver Instant Answers to Everyone” at the Big Data Tech conference in Bloomington, Minnesota. The conference was hosted by MinneAnalytics , “a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the data science and analytics community in Minnesota, the Upper Midwest, and beyond by providing accessible, authentic and engaging events.” Dan Antonson, Sr.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2018

This video blog post provides a snapshot of some of the teaching and learning that takes place on a Masters course, Outdoor Environmental Education: Concept-Based Practice, run by Robbie Nicol in the School of Education… The course takes place at Woodlands, the University’s residential centre in the Highland village of Kingussie, located within Cairngorms National Park.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 18, 2018

We are nearing the end of this series of video posts emerging from the Near Future Teaching project , and it felt appropriate to conclude with two posts detailing the values emerging from the project. Staff and students spoke openly about what values they hope would be underpinning the future of digital education at the University. These values have implications for teaching and learning, as they position education as the core value of the University itself.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 11, 2018

In one of the last few instalments from the Near Future Teaching project , we turn our attention to a theme that might feel more science fiction than near future. It is a theme that resonated for many, and surfaced both concerns and optimism for the future of learning at the University. And it is a theme that has moved beyond science fiction and into a nuance largely lacking in media reports about the future of learning assisted by technology.

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Terminalfour

JULY 9, 2018

Chatbots can be useful tools to handle customer queries. One impressive example came from Leeds Beckett University last year.

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