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Building community online

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

iStock [VLADGRIN] Community (noun) : 1. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; 2. the condition of sharing or having certain attitudes and interests in common; 3. a group of interdependent plants or animals growing or living together in natural conditions or occupying a specified habitat. How to define community?

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Need Me This Summer? I’ll Be in the Lab

Hope College Network

Meet Anna Lunderberg. Don’t let the relaxed pose in the hammock fool you. This summer, Anna is hard at work on campus, doing things like studying the brain tissue of rats and running Western blots. (Yeah, I had to Google that , too.) Anna, a soon-to-be sophomore at Hope, is collaborating with biology and chemistry professor Dr. Leah Chase on neuroscience research through the summer.

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Why multimedia matters: promoting the use of video in assessment and feedback

Teaching Matters Academic Support

iStock [erhui1979] While the use of multimedia has become a common practice in the development of learning materials, using audio or video in the way that we assess and provide feedback to our students is a practice which is only followed by a minority of lecturers. For many lecturers, introducing a multimedia element involves navigating uncharted waters in order to arrive, in the end, at the same shore that they would arrive following traditional assessment methods.

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University of Missouri Dispel the Myth of the College Brochure Cliché

Terminalfour

Breaking down the common higher education brochure clichés. There's life in the old dog yet.

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London Metropolitan University: Do something you Love

Terminalfour

Get inspired by the best clearing campaigns out there

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