Teaching Matters Online Learning
MARCH 28, 2019
Photo credit: Tim Drysdale In this post, Professor Tim Drysdale, Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education in the School of Engineering, highlights the importance of developing new students’ confidence to question their digital destiny, and to play around with coding in context… By the time I went to university, the tide had already turned.
The Change Leader, Inc.
MARCH 28, 2019
New Approaches to Online Education with Russ Poulin and Dr. Drumm McNaughton podcast discusses how online education continues to grow. And with the constant developments in technology, the delivery systems are rapidly evolving. Therefore, institutional need to be thoughtful about which programs they offer online, who they contract with to offer these services, what types of systems and support structures they put into place, and how they get faculty buy-in.
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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
MARCH 27, 2019
Some of the IS Interns at one of our memorable lunches. In this article, Lila Pitcher, Student Intern with Information Services, talks about her experience of co-creating the Information Services Group (ISG) Intern Blog during the summer of 2018. She looks back on the skills she gathered managing and editing her peers’ work, and the challenges she faced… In June 2018, I started an internship with ISG as an ‘Academic Blogging Intern’ Despite my work being primarily centred
Terminalfour
MARCH 25, 2019
University marketing teams need to keep up with the ever-changing social media landscape. Here we've compiled five key trends which are emerging in 2019.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
MARCH 26, 2019
Photo credit: pixabay, pixelcult, CC0 In this blog post, Dr Siobhan O’Connor, a Lecturer in Nursing Studies, describes how she and a student co-led a review to understand how social media is used in nursing education as an approach to learning … Background Social media has been with us now for over a decade and, as a technology, it is very popular among young people.
Dr. Paul Gordon Brown
MARCH 25, 2019
Moving to a curricular approach calls upon us to become better at assessing student learning. Although it may be common on a campus to have students respond to short surveys providing feedback about a program or service, it is often less common to assess student acquisition of knowledge and skills as a result of an engagement. Institutions and departments transitioning to a curricular approach need to be mindful that every touch point with a student is an opportunity for learning and that assess
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
MARCH 26, 2019
In this post, Dr Niki Vermeulen, a Senior Lecturer in History & Sociology of Science, describes how Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme funding helped her and her colleagues develop an innovative app-based walking tour to complement the History of Science course… Curious Edinburgh is an app-based walking tour which showcases the many buildings and places in the city of Edinburgh which are connected to the history of science, technology and medicine.
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