Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Chris Adamus, CC0 In this post, Brendan Owers, a Learning Technologist at The University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute, offers insight into his experience as a part-time online Masters student… Earlier this year, I was invited to share my experience as a distance online student with the next cohort studying on the MSc programme , Blended and Online Learning , that I have just finished (whoa – never did I expect myself to be writing that sort of statement).

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Could you imagine a university turning off social media entirely to promote emotional well-being at a busy point in the year?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, 3864675, CC0 In this Peer Learning and Support mini-series post , Maddie Kurchik, the Postgraduate Peer Support Intern for the Edinburgh University Students’ Association and Institute for Academic Development, refl ects on the unique needs of postgraduate students and how they might best be served by the development of peer support schemes… The basic principle of peer support is that more experienced students share their knowledge with those less experienced.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 3, 2019

No need to be in denial, missing your pets while at college is a real thing! Here’s the key signs that you’re missing the furriest part of your family and how to deal with pet withdrawals. 1. Every time you see a dog or cat around campus you can’t stop staring. I’ll admit I’ve been caught staring at dogs by many owners. Most of the time they just smile at me, but I have received odd looks here and there.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, @tranmautritam, CC0 Welcome to the December issue of Teaching Matters: Contributions from online students. This month, Teaching Matters is delighted to feature blog posts written by students who are studying (or have studied) as an online student. They will be sharing their experiences of studying as a distance leaner whilst juggling a professional life, how they manage assessments and deadlines, and how engaging with online study influenced their personal development, as

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Welcome to the second installment of our social media round-up, offering quick-to-read updates to keep you up to speed and ahead of the competition.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Kelly Sikkema, CC0 This is the fourth post in the ‘Spotlight on ELIR’ series, which will chart the Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR) that will be taking place in autumn 2020. In this post, Professor Tina Harrison introduces the third draft chapter of the Reflective Analysis, ‘Strategy and practice for enhancing learning and teaching’, and outlines how staff and students can provide comments… WHAT IS CHAPTER 3 ABOUT?

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Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

DECEMBER 1, 2019

by Isabel Thottam. Leadership is one of the most important functions of a management team in higher education. Not only do the members of the team represent the organization to its students, stakeholders, and the world—but leaders also represent the organization to its employees. There is a reason we have leaders—we need people to keep the team organized, to make sure it hits goals and meets deadlines.

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Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

DECEMBER 1, 2019

by Thomas J. Tobin. Much of what we know about observing and assessing teaching comes from our own experiences as learners, and many widely-held practices are not supported by best practices. We can adopt three broad principles in order to allow even non-subject-expert observers to provide meaningful—and legally defensible—assessments of teaching quality regardless of the subject, level, format, medium, or approach being used by instructors: Good teaching practices share seven core elements.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

I remember very vividly getting asked multiple times about which school I was going to choose and attend. In fact, I recall that question coming at me in about eight different forms for at least a year. It is a stressful time of life, and deciding on a college is probably the biggest decision a lot of us had to make up to this point in our lives. However, looking back, choosing Hope College was the best decision of my life.

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Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

DECEMBER 1, 2019

by Lindsay Curtis. Social media is ubiquitous; nearly every facet of our lives has been touched by it in some way. In the last decade, there has been explosive growth in the use of social media sites, with an estimated 2.65 billion users in 2018 — and this number is expected to reach almost 3.1 billion in 2021. In the United States, the average user spends approximately 1 hour and 57 minutes on social media each day. .

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