Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 1, 2018

Dr Cathy Bovill talks about her CoDI show on student engagement… How many engaged students does it take to change a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb is obsolete when the students question accepted forms of lighting and co-create new more sustainable ways of living. Why do unicorns and engaged students differ?… OK, so the rumours are correct, in a few days’ time I will be performing my first ever Edinburgh Fringe show.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

Welcome to the August issue of Teaching Matters! Once again, the Edinburgh Fringe is upon us, and this month Teaching Matters is very excited to present blog post contributions from staff and students performing at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CoDI), as part of the Fringe. To introduce CoDI, we welcome our guest blogger, CoDI intern, Lola Moutel-Davesne… What is the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, annca, CC0 In this post, Ana Fialho, a PhD Physics student and PhD Horizons Careers Conference Intern, shares her views on an event that aims to show postgraduate students the career potential of holding a PhD degree… More than half of PhD graduates in the UK pursue a career outside of academia [1]. This means that around 50% of PhD graduates are effectively going through a career change at the end of their degrees (with the exception perhaps of those who will go on to do

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

AUGUST 2, 2018

At the most recent Convention of ACPA - College Student Educators International, I had the opportunity to present a PechaKucha-stylepresentation on residential curriculum and curricular approaches to student affairs work. In this video I discuss why we need a curricular approach, how the movement started, what curricular approaches entail, and how we can move this.

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Collegis Education Data Management

JULY 31, 2018

Collegis Education Sr. Marketing Technology Manager Dan Antonson presented on “Using Search and AI-Driven Analytics to Deliver Instant Answers to Everyone” at the Big Data Tech conference in Bloomington, Minnesota. The conference was hosted by MinneAnalytics , “a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the data science and analytics community in Minnesota, the Upper Midwest, and beyond by providing accessible, authentic and engaging events.” Dan Antonson, Sr.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 2, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, mediamodifier, CC0 David Mountain, Masters student in Nationalism Studies, tells us about his CoDI show exploring the problem with patriotism… Perhaps unusually for a Masters student, my looming dissertation deadline isn’t the scariest thing in my summer calendar. This is because August also sees my debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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