Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Photo credit: India trek students Dr Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Business School, talks to Teaching Matters about the huge challenges we are facing in HE to help students engage with problems that are truly relevant – especially the complex issues around social inclusion and environmental sustainability. In designing a unique experience involving 24 students from multiple disciplines trekking across India, Winston describes how he is tackling this challenge… How can we use ou

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 In this post, Jill MacKay, a research fellow from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Principal Investigator leading the University’s lecture recording evaluation, shares some of the findings and conclusions from the evaluation, and poses some fundamental questions about learning and teaching… I have a confession.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Following on from her colleague Neil Hudson and vet student Vikky Park’s blog, Kirsty Hughes, Research Assistant in Veterinary Medical Education, shares a little of her experience working with some of the veterinary students as they work towards applying for Associate Fellowship of the HEA (AFHEA)… At the vet school, the students who go for AFHEA are a subset of those working towards the Undergraduate Certificate in Veteri

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We have seen some pretty amazing Welcome videos in our time but we have to say this series from the University of Michigan has got to be our all-time favorite.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, andreas160578, CC0 As first and second programme directors, and respective organisers of two innovative, experiential MA courses in the School of Health in Social Sciences, Alette Willis and Marion Smith, chat about the benefits for learning through student engagement with the local community… Alette begins: We are launching a new experiential learning course on the MA in Health, Science and Society: Nature, Greenspace and Health (SHSS10010).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Automated communications are a relatively new way for students to get information but they’re set to have a bigger impact on recruitment and for students.

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