Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 11, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, dtavres, CC0 In this post, PhD student, Liv Coombes, presents a podcast initiative, which she developed with fellow student, Elliott Gruzin, to build an online community of listeners for anyone interested in philosophy and pop culture… My PhD research involves the philosophy of time travel, looking at how traditional theories of free will are affected by the logical possibility of time travel.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 10, 2019

Photo credit: University Image Gallery, Sam Sills. In this post, Bethany Easton, Marketing and Communications Administrator for the School of Health in Social Science , highlights the powerful effect of students and staff sharing stories on a blog dedicated to Nursing… The Nursing Blog was set up in 2014 as a space to share the achievements, research, and work from students and staff across the Nursing Studies subject area.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 10, 2019

Celebrating last day of lectures in the Vet School In this blog post from the Academic Blogging Mini-Series , Francesca Coates, the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) Student Recruitment Officer, introduces a new blog from the Vet School, which aims to build an academic community for new and current students… In October 2018, shortly after the University’s new blogging platform went live, I launched Stories from Vet School.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2019

In this podcast: Government and Universities Battle Sexual Abuse.Robert Showers Esq. has had a long and storied career in law. Prior to founding Simms Showers LLP, he was a principal at Gammon & Grange in charge of the litigation department, and before that was with the U.S. Department of Justice where he was acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, a federal prosecutor and Chief of the Civil Section in the US Attorney's Office, and was Founder and Executive Director of what is now the Chi

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Hope College Network

APRIL 8, 2019

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.” —Hebrews 6:19 Hope College: a name itself founded in faith, illuminating the hope we have in Jesus. Faith is an evident and encouraging part of life on campus, from weekly services, to Campus Ministries , to student-led Bible studies. The beautiful part about faith on campus is that nothing is stifling or obligatory, but an open invitation for students to either explore or grow their faith.

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Terminalfour

APRIL 9, 2019

Some students arrive on campus with thousands of followers on their social network profiles. How can you leverage their following and other micro-influencers?

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

APRIL 8, 2019

Transitioning to a curricular approach represents a cultural shift. A department can have well-articulated goals, outcomes, and educational plans, but a residential curriculum will never be successful without the necessary cultural and organizational change that comes along with it. For residence life departments, in particular, this means preparing your student staff members for this shift, involving them in the process, and helping them through the process of change.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 9, 2019

In this post, Dr Stuart Dunmore, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, describes his recent Go Abroad Staff experience at the Sorbonne Nouevelle in Paris, France, where he taught students about the use of Gaelic within and beyond the education system… Springtime in Paris, 2019: what a time and place to develop my teaching repertoire, I thought, and what an experience it proved to be.

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