Eric Stoller

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The following is an excerpt from Chris Douce’s review of my keynote “How digital engagement enhances the student experience” presented at the Higher Education Academy’s HEA 2017 Annual conference: Generation TEF. The opening keynote was by Eric Stoller. Eric has built a consultancy about using technology and social media to create digital engagement , with a particular emphasis on higher education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 7, 2017

An academic from Edinburgh College of Art, Rachel Simmonds, shares her experience of collaborating with a Chinese higher education institution… Over eight years ago the School of Design, one of the five schools that make up Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), began looking into the possibility of a collaboration project with Donghua University, Shanghai, which is well known within China as being a centre of excellence for fashion teaching.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 5, 2017

iStock [yesfoto] It’s an exciting time for internationalisation and teaching and learning in higher education. Rapid growth in ‘transnational education’ creates opportunities to collaborate with new partners, adopt new approaches and technologies, and even teach in new places. This blog highlights some of the innovative work going on at Edinburgh (and around the world).

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Terminalfour

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Before people get caught up in the fast-approaching festive season, we wanted to bid a fond farewell to our freakiest of holidays.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I remember what it felt like the summer before coming to college. I remember different daydreams of what it would be like to finally be in college, the nerves that I would get from worrying about forgetting something important, and the advice I would get that helped calm those nerves (just a little). I got advice on all sorts of things. People told me the best ways of setting up your room to get the maximum space, what to pack, what classes to take and which ones to wait for later, what to get i

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 3, 2017

We as humans have unique tendencies. We have a weird way of shifting who we are and what we do based off of those around us. Don’t think I am shaming you, I’m not. I can think of countless ways that I have conformed myself, made decisions, and have grown to be like those around me. Why is this? Is this because we struggle to find who we really are and being someone else is easier?

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