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Repost: “Kids like me”: A Widening Participation video to encourage equal access to science studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

A still from the video ‘Studying Science at Edinburgh University: Everyone is Welcome’, filmed by Gabriele Negro. In this post, Gabriele Negro, a student who has just completed the Ecological and Environmental Sciences undergraduate degree programme, showcases a film he produced to inspire secondary school pupils from underrepresented backgrounds to take up science at university… While I was in high school, I never thought about going to University.

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Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods: Effect of remote exams on performance in applied knowledge assessments

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Photo credit: Fabio Bracht, Unsplash CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods’ post, David Kluth, Director of Teaching MBChB, Colin Duncan, Year 5 Director, Karen Fairhurst, Year 5 Director and Alan Jaap, Assessment Lead MBChB, discuss the effects of remote exams on performance in applied knowledge assessments in the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) degree… Introduction Applied knowledge tests form an important component of assessment in medicine across

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Changing Racial Inequalities in Higher Education with Dr. Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi | Changing Higher Ed 052

The Change Leader, Inc.

The world has become a place of open pain and suffering, as well as one in which people are more curious. People are asking questions about how we got here and where we are going next. While part of this is due to the coronavirus pandemic, another major part involves the explosion of long-simmering racial tensions.

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Robots attend graduation in place of students and other innovations

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A university in Tokyo has held a graduation ceremony using avatar robots controlled remotely by graduating students from their homes

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Repost: "Kids like me": A Widening Participation video to encourage equal access to science studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

A still from the video ‘Studying Science at Edinburgh University: Everyone is Welcome’, filmed by Gabriele Negro. In this post, Gabriele Negro, a student who has just completed the Ecological and Environmental Sciences undergraduate degree programme, showcases a film he produced to inspire secondary school pupils from underrepresented backgrounds to take up science at university… While I was in high school, I never thought about going to University.

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Will COVID Cause University Transformation? Maybe…

The Change Leader, Inc.

University transformation could be the silver lining of the pandemic. COVID has caused a massive disruption in higher ed, and many question whether it will transform or waste the opportunity. We’re steadily moving toward the start of the new school year, yet something is off. Normally this time of the year has been marked by excitement—whether that’s because of the return of students, the start of the next phase of life for incoming freshmen, or the sense of camaraderie created by the impending

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