The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Changing Higher Ed Podcast How Higher Ed Can Prepare for a Crisis with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Nick Dirks | Podcast 003 Dr. Nick Dirks has the pedigree of one of the top educators in the world, and the “battle scars” of someone who’s been in the hot seat in higher ed and survived it. As the 10th chancellor of UC Berkeley, Dr. Dirks saw many victories and faced many challenges during his tenure, all the while ensuring that the students of Berkeley received the top public un

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The growth of online education has greatly accelerated. Technology continues to make its mark on college campuses across the nation. With the rapid changes in whats available in devices and software, leaders of higher education institutions and faculty are being forced to think creatively about how to utilize and even embrace online education. Technology now offers a myriad of facets and offerings in a place where huge mainframes once were the gold standard and Apple Macintosh Plus computers wer

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