Sat.May 19, 2018 - Fri.May 25, 2018

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10 Reasons to Go Digital with Your Course Materials

Eric Stoller

When I was a college student, there were times when I skipped out on buying a required textbook for a course. Finances were always tight, so I tried to balance my checkbook with buying actual books. Even then, textbooks weren’t cheap. Today, students are paying more and more for their higher education experience. If a university can find ways to make attending college more affordable, accessible, and “high-tech/high-touch”, well, it’s not really an option, it’s a necessity.

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Creating resilience through diversity, experimentation and pragmatism

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Credit: ECA Jared Taylor, programme director for Animation at Edinburgh College of Art, explains how pedagogical aspects of creative disciplines can help promote resilience in students… Most, if not all, creative disciplines necessitate a certain resilience in their practitioners. Audiences can be wayward and fickle, critics can instil terror, the manual labour involved can be protracted and arduous, the use of emergent technology can engender a fear of not being quite current enough, an

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Great idea: DePaul University, I am DePaul

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We loved DePaul University’s idea of launching a separate Instagram account just for student stories.

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Let’s teach students what they need

Teaching Matters Student Employment

CC0 [Pixabay] This post sees Psychology student, Tobias, explaining how much he has valued project-based learning in his undergraduate experience, and how this has prepared him for the professional world… Education must prepare students for life. To address this, the University of Edinburgh has developed a framework of ‘ Graduate Attributes ’, which each student should have the opportunity to develop while studying here.