Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 4, 2020

Photo credit: Tatiana Rodriguez, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Lesley Ross, Pre-Arrival and Induction Team Leader, reflects on her experiences of starting something new (be it university or a job) and the value of student inductions for supporting and preparing students in their university journey… Thinking about when you started something new, be it a job or study, and reflecting on your first interactions and how it left a lasting impression on you, can be a useful way to think about ‘stude

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 3, 2020

In this ‘Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods’ post, Tim Fawns, Deputy Programme Director of the MSc in Clinical Education and part-time tutor on the MSc in Digital Education, and Jen Ross, co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, discuss several design characteristics that can provide challenging and meaningful ways for students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding at a distance.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2020

How to Reengineer Higher Education Post-COVID with Mike Goldstein and Dr. Drumm McNaughton podcast discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the changes already facing higher education. These issues include financial, structural, and enrollment. Mike Goldstein, one of the top higher education attorneys in the country, offers his insights on how higher education leaders can navigating these challenges.

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Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

JUNE 1, 2020

by Terri E. Givens. As institutions look to the Fall, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the mode of instruction that will be needed, given that a second wave of the pandemic is expected. Many institutions are planning to end their terms by Thanksgiving, so that they won’t have students returning at a time when the coronavirus may be spreading again, as noted in this article in the New York Times: As colleges make plans to bring students back to campus, alongside discussions of ma

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 2, 2020

Welcome Week 2018. Photo by Ludo Farine, copyright University of Edinburgh. In this introductory post for June’s issue on Student Transitions, Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services, describes the various initiatives the University of Edinburgh has been undertaking to help students transition into the university experience.

Management 52

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Will Richardson

MAY 31, 2020

(Note: I originally wrote this in July, 2016. I wish I could say that we’d evolved since then into a much more sane, loving, enlightened, literate, just society. But as you’ll see, almost all of it could have been written this week. What will we do to make sure this post won’t be relevant four years from now?). To try to capture the last week in the U.S. would be folly.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 2, 2020

Welcome Week 2018. Photo by Ludo Farine, copyright University of Edinburgh. In this introductory post for June’s issue on Student Transitions, Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services, describes the various initiatives the University of Edinburgh has been undertaking to help students transition into the university experience.

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