Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 17, 2020

Photo credit: Ashley Batz, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Chris Mowat, Senior Personal Tutor and Senior Lecturer at the School of Chemistry, thinks through the challenges of supporting student transitions in the context of hybrid learning and teaching… At the end of the 2019/20 academic year, those of us involved in teaching and student support had to adapt quickly to new ways of working and engaging with our students.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2020

by Terri E. Givens. We are once again at a moment in history where people are in the streets calling for racial justice. George Floyd is another name in a long line of African Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of the police, those who are supposed to “protect and serve.”. In order to understand this moment and why it has led to such a strong response by the public, it is important to understand that these are not random incidents.

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JUNE 18, 2020

What can universities do at an institutional level to help decrease their drop-out rates?

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

JUNE 15, 2020

By Steve Joordens. This article addresses the side-effects of the great COVID-forced migration to online learning in terms of its potential impact on educational innovation. I argue that prior to COVID-19 those faculty engaged in online learning also tended to be those who had the greatest knowledge of, and interest in using, educational pedagogies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 16, 2020

Photo Credit: Marsden, William, University of Edinburgh Collections, 0054810. In this post, MSc Finance, Technology and Policy student Immy Asavabhokhin, describes how programme and university level networking events helped support her transition into academic life at the University. The most challenging thing for me when I arrived here was transforming into a very research-intense university.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 16, 2020

Image Credit: University of Edinburgh Collections, Title: Prima Septimi Libri Figura, Creator: Oporinus, Johannes, Record No.: 0041208 & Unsplash. Remix by Joe Arton In this post, Gemma Spencer, a Masters student in Psychology of Mental Health (Conversion), shares her experience transitioning from undergraduate to postgraduat e. Changing direction My academic journey into the field of psychology is a rather unconventional one.

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