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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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Higher ed institutions are grappling with declining enrollment. The old ways of recruiting students that institutions used during the go-go years 15 years ago no longer work there is far more competition for a shrinking pool of traditional students, student demographics have changed, and numerous other reasons. This has resulted in deep discounting of tuition, institutions investing in climbing walls and lazy rivers on campus, and other ways to attract prospective students.

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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 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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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 3, 2018

#Metoo sparked a reveal of sexual abuse in academe. Three years ago the Association of American Universities added kindling to a smoldering fire when it released a report that found that 25 percent of female undergraduate students experience sexual assault or misconduct during their time at university. The study pointed out that fewer than a third of those involved in an incident reported it to campus or local authorities, often because they didnt feel their experiences were serious enough to wa

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