Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 29, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, rawpixel, CC0 In this post, Dr Ben Marder, a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Edinburgh Business school , along with PhD student Sebastian Oliver, share their findings of a study that explores the effects of academic dress and relationships with students in lectures… If you Google ‘why do academics…’ then the autofill function will suggest ‘dress so badly’.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 28, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, qimono, CC0 In this mental health and wellbeing mini-series post , Dr Neil Thin, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science, proposes that happiness can be explored more deeply if we look to questionology – the study of asking… “Am I happy?”, seems like an innocent and reasonable question to ask.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

This article originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed on August 5, 2019. Colleges and universities are great places to work. Many Ph.D. students who are no longer are attracted to faculty careers are still interested in working in higher education. They are drawn to the teaching and learning mission of the institution, its organizational values, and the opportunity to collaborate with smart people.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 14, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, thumprchgo, CC0 In this mini-series post , Kate McHugh, the Deputy Head of Short Courses (Learning and Teaching) at the Centre for Open Learning , explains how engaging in lifelong learning leads to positive wellbeing and mental health… As we work to teach and support our students as they navigate their way through their studies, it might be helpful, before the new academic year begins, to pause and think about new learning for ourselves.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 5, 2019

Neg Reg 2019 Washington Update Podcast with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Tom Netting. Federal legislators and policymakers continue to try to work through policy and legislative changes that will have significant impacts on higher education. These include efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to alter rules developed during the Obama Administration.

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Higher Ed Connects: Ed Tech

AUGUST 5, 2019

Go Culture International (GCI) exists to provide the most reliable intercultural competency assessment tool. With a reliability score of 93% (Cronbach’s Alpa.93), GCI offers industry-leading data accuracy for global citizenship aptitude. Began as a research initiative in 1998 by leading Intercultural scholar Dr. Carley H. Dodd, the GCI assessment and coaching program spent eight years in development, followed by 13 years of testing. .

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Terminalfour

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new social media network has launched aimed at becoming the go-to messaging platform for students. Can it prosper where the likes of Yik Yak failed?

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 23, 2019

This article was originally appeared in The Chronicle for Higher Education on August 7, 2019, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. The end of the master’s degree as we’ve known it? 2U’s stock plunged last week after its executives announced some business changes in response to shifts they were seeing in the market. Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 21, 2019

© Mihaela Bodlovic 2019 Festival of Creative Learning In this post, Angel Garmpi, a Linguistics MA student at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, reflects on her experience of learning in lectures… As a student going into the fourth year of my Undergraduate degree in a lecture-heavy programme, I have been able to reflect on what sort of lectures have resonated the most during my time as a student.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 21, 2019

© Mihaela Bodlovic 2019 Festival of Creative Learning In this mental health and wellbeing mini-series post, Oona Miller, who graduated in Politics and is currently serving as Vice President Welfare at Edinburgh University Students’ Association, and Steph Vallancey, who graduated in Health, Science, and Society and is the current Vice President Education, have a chat about their experiences of wellbeing in the classroom… As recent graduates, but still strongly connected to the student body

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 20, 2019

Colleges and universities need to change. On this there is widespread agreement. The challenge, of course, is how to make changes at institutions steeped in venerable traditions and, at times, resistant to transformation. To explore how to solve this problem and spur campus wide innovations, The Chronicle of Higher Education joined with Arizona State University and Salesforce to hold a forum with presidents, provosts, and other senior administrators.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2019

© Mihaela Bodlovic 2019 Festival of Creative Learning 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 , showcase the work that The University of Edinburgh has been doing to address the Enhancement Theme: “Evidence for Enhancement: Improving the Student Experience?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 7, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, pexels, CC0 In this mini-series blog post, Dr Rosie Stenhouse, a lecturer in Nursing Studies, reflects on the challenges staff and students can face in supporting mental health difficulties… Within the UK, there is an increasing incidence of mental health problems within the adolescent population. Students entering university are therefore more likely to have existing mental health issues than in the past.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 5, 2019

This article originally appeared in Science magazine on June 3, 2019. Bradley Miller is more likely to be hired than José Rodriguez. Zhang Wei (David) is more competent than Jamal Banks. And both Miller and Zhang are more competent and hirable than Maria Rodriguez or Shanice Banks. These postdoc job candidates are fictional. But the differences in how they’re viewed based on name alone—despite identical CVs—by a sample of professors are real.

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Terminalfour

AUGUST 6, 2019

How do you choose the right digital design agency to transform your website? And what should you do to make a digital design project run smoothly?

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Terminalfour

AUGUST 29, 2019

The Instagram engagement report has landed. And the findings provide some great insights you can apply to your university’s social activity.

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Terminalfour

AUGUST 15, 2019

WCAG 2.1 are the latest set of standards to be enforced by law. We look at what you need to do to comply with them.

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Terminalfour

AUGUST 8, 2019

Here is a short and sweet round-up of the changes coming through this summer to the platforms you use most.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 21, 2019

© Mihaela Bodlovic 2019 Festival of Creative Learning In this post, Angel Garmpi, a Linguistics MA student at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, reflects on her experience of learning in lectures… As a student going into the fourth year of my Undergraduate degree in a lecture-heavy programme, I have been able to reflect on what sort of lectures have resonated the most during my time as a student.

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