Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Image credit: Chris Sheridan Following on from last month’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Week , this extra post sees Chris Sheridan, eLearning coordinator for the Clinical Trials programme with the Usher Institute, exploring how monitoring online activity using learning analytics can help staff spot at-risk students… It’s the start of term.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Credit: unsplash, @cferdo, CC0 This month’s issue celebrates global connections in learning and teaching. As Professor James Smith highlighted in an earlier blog post on Internationalisation and Teaching , University of Edinburgh is one of the most international universities in the world. Previous blog posts have highlighted international collaborations with Shanghai College of Fashion , partnerships with African scholars in the MasterCard Foundation Scholar programme , and the impact of

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Coming back to campus after Thanksgiving may not sound like any fun. However, there is nothing like Christmas music and festive decorations to make the last couple weeks of the semester that much better. Holland, Michigan, may be well known as a beach town, but there is something so enchanting about 8th Street covered in snow and strung with lights and stockings above the Bultman Student Center fireplace.

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HECG

DECEMBER 6, 2018

By DAVID MYTON. Whatever the future holds, investment in human capital is “a no-regrets policy” that prepares people for the challenges ahead, says the World Bank in its latest examination of the changing nature of work. Three types of skills, it says, are increasingly important in today’s labour markets: Advanced cognitive skills such as complex problem-solving.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Students in front of their posters at the Global Challenges in Business 2018 Poster Awards Ceremony In this post, Business with Marketing student, Dasha Selivanova, reports back on the Global Challenges in Business Awards Ceremony Night 2018… Most students who have just joined university are nervous, shy, don’t know how to cook, and are confused about all the academia.

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