Will Richardson

APRIL 23, 2020

As educators, parents, and students have scrambled over the past couple of months to figure out how to move school online quickly and at scale, I can’t help but be reminded of a pivotal scene in the movie Apollo 13. After having to abandon their trip to the moon due to an explosion, the three astronauts suddenly find themselves struggling for oxygen in their emergency home in a lunar module designed to support only two people.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 24, 2020

Pixabay, CC0 In this Spotlight on Remote Teaching post, Dr Jill MacKay, Lecturer in Veterinary Education, and Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement, introduce a new resource hub developed with contributions from across the sector and around the world to support technology enhanced learning… How has the Resource Hub been Developed? Each year the Quality Assurance Agency Scotland run a ‘Focus On’ project to support universities and students’ associations work in key areas.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

Photo credit: Alice Donovan, Unsplash CC0 In this Mini-Series on ‘Embedding Belonging in the Classroom’ , Kirsty Stewart, from the Careers Service, chats to us about how Making Transitions Personal can help students prepare for the future, and instil a sense of belonging before they even arrive on campus… Background Research shows that engaging with students early can help with their sense of belonging by enabling both students and staff to understand students’ expectations and incre

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Glen Cousquer In this post Glen Cousquer, lecturer and coordinator of the MSc and MVetSci programmes in One Health and Conservation Medicine and recipient of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award , contemplates on the relationship between practising mindfulness and teaching about complex and transdisciplinary issues, like sustainability.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on remote teaching’ post, Yi-Shan Tsai, research associate at the School of Informatics, talks about the advantages and challenges of blended learning design and what questions to consider when adopting this approach. These issues will be discussed in great detail in the upcoming free and online course “Making Blended Education Work” starting May 11th… In the recent New Media Consortium horizon report (Alex

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