Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 25, 2019

Credit: unsplash, Brooke Cagle, CC0 In this post, Celeste McLaughlin, Head of Academic Development for Digital Education, at the Institute for Academic Development, shares some simple and highly effective tips on how to build and support academic communities for students studying online… The recent focus of the Teaching Matters blog on building academic communities led to a discussion with colleagues about how important building these communities are during online courses.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 25, 2019

Guess Who? Game modified with staff photos at Launch Event. Photo Credit: C Mowat. In this post, Dr Chris Mowat, Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemistry, describes how, using a Student Partnership Agreement fund, staff and students have developed ‘Chemunity’ – a student-driven web-based resource and social media presence, which aims to provide resources to improve the academic support, promote and support positive mental health and wellbeing, and ensure that student voice is

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APRIL 25, 2019

April fools and Content Marketing in Higher Education. Nottingham Trent University developed an invisibility cloak. We wanted it to be true!

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 24, 2019

Photo credit: wocintech stock – 208, CC BY 2.0, [link] The Academic Blogging Mini-Series has highlighted some of the many benefits of academic blogging. This post by Lorna M. Campbell (LTW), Susan Greig (LTW) and Daphne Loads (IAD) explains how you can use blogging to develop your professional profile and contribute to professional accreditation… I’ve been blogging for many years now and it’s hard to overestimate the importance of my blog in supporting my career and my professional p

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 24, 2019

Welcome to episode 5 of the Teaching Matters podcast: Blogging to enhance professional practice. The Teaching Matters podcast accompanies and complements the Teaching Matters blog, adding another space for students and staff to have conversations and debates around learning and teaching at the University of Edinburgh. Students and staff are invited to engage in topical conversations, which are recorded and edited as podcast episodes.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 23, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, kimspirationalslove, CC0 In this post, Dr Gregor Gorjanc, a Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Driven Innovation for AgriTech at The Roslin Institute, describes his recent Go Abroad Staff experience in teaching animal breeding and genomics at the Animal Science Department (Rodica) of the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia… During the last five years at The Roslin Institute, I have frequently thought about strengthening research links with my Alma Mater, the U

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 23, 2019

Enjoying coffee and cake. Left to right: Hye Ri Choi, Catherine Clarissa, Elaine Haycock-Stuart, Anny Chen. Photo credit: Hye Ri Choi In this post, PhD student Catherine Clarissa, from the School of Health in Social Science, shares her experience of being part of a recent initiative involving, coffee, cake and chat with students and staff… Last year in April, I got the chance to be part of the Coffee and Cake Conversations initiative run by Dr Cathy Bovill in the IAD.

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