Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 5, 2020

Photo Credit: Hudson Hintze, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Sarah-Jane Brown, the Student Surveys Operations Lead working in Analytics, Insights and Modelling within Student Systems and Administration, explains the essential work of The University of Edinburgh’s Student Panel in influencing how the University can improve student experience… The University of Edinburgh Student Panel was created to give students the opportunity to influence decision making and drive change at The Universit

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 4, 2020

Photo Credit: Brandi Ibrao, Unsplash, CC0 In this Embedding Belonging into the Classroom mini-series , contributors from across our university community will dive into a range of thoughts, conversations and experience on ‘embedding belonging into the classroom’. These posts will explore the various benefits of creating a sense of belonging in the classroom, challenges that prevent such feelings, examples of great work going on across the University and so much more.

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Higher Ed Connects: Leadership

MARCH 1, 2020

by Terri E. Givens. In April of 2009, I was a vice-provost at UT Austin, preparing to head to China with a delegation from the Provost’s office to work on collaborations with Chinese universities. That trip would get cancelled when the H1 N1 virus was identified in Mexico and crossed the border into Texas, leading the CDC to declare a health emergency.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

MARCH 1, 2020

Whether you’re just starting your journey towards a curricular approach or whether you’re looking to improve your current practice, connecting with peer institutions for idea generation, collaboration, and benchmarking can be incredible useful and there are a number of different avenues available to you. One of the easiest places to begin connecting is by attending ACPA’s Institute on the Curricular Approach.

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Will Richardson

MARCH 3, 2020

I’ve been thinking more about story since writing this recent post , and I’ve come across some more reading and thinking that I’m trying to make sense of. (If you haven’t read that post, this one will make much more sense if you do.) So in the spirit of blogging my way to greater understanding… Next week marks the release here in the US of a new Will Storr book titled The Science of Storytelling , and from the reviews that I’ve come across so far, I’m in

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 3, 2020

Photo credit: Jason Rosewell, Unsplash, CC0 Welcome to the March issue: Student voice on academic feedback This month’s issue highlights student voice on academic feedback. Blog posts will discuss how students engage with the University’s various resources for giving feedback and how staff incorporate this feedback in their teaching. The University of Edinburgh continuously strives to improve its feedback mechanisms in an effort to meet students’ evolving demands of representation and participat

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