The Change Leader, Inc.
DECEMBER 21, 2016
What can nontraditional students teach Higher Ed? The changing needs of students and the potential pool of enrollees need you to accommodate their changing world. Nontraditional students can teach Higher Ed institutions how to transform to meet those needs and grow enrollment. The demographics of incoming college freshmen have shifted significantly over the past few decades.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Higher education in the UK is experienced differently by our diverse student cohorts. Our mature undergraduate students are significantly less likely to complete their degree than their younger counterparts; students with disclosed disabilities are less likely to receive upper degrees than those without; students from higher socio-economic classifications are more likely to receive upper degrees than those from lower classification; our white students are more likely to be in full-time work s
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Hope College Network
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Chile has truly fabulous pastry! They have a lot different cakes, because people love to eat sweets. As, I wrote in the post about Manjar, they put Manjar to a lot of their pastries. Here are some typical Chilean desert. Brazo de Reine It is the traditional Chilean desert or roll. Some people would say that it is the cousin of Swiss or Czech roll, but it is really not.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Coding Club is a positive peer-to-peer learning community aiming to develop quantitative skills, in particular fluency in statistics and the programming language R, through fostering a supportive environment where we can all grow as teachers and learners together. Coding Club brings together undergraduate students, recent alumni, PhD students and researchers from the University of Edinburgh for weekly peer-led workshops to deliver a meaningful and motivational learning experience.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
Lego bricks are a constant presence in my life. I’ve nurtured a love for Lego bricks in my kids and I live with the consequences! Lego bricks and creations litter my home; Christmases and Birthdays involve hours of constructing models; rainy weekends hours are spent building. And in the last year I’ve also started using Lego in some of my teaching… My teaching with Lego started with a panicked email to the Institute for Academic Development (IAD).
Teaching Matters Student Engagement
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Delivering an interdisciplinary course is a complex challenge — ideally the learning is co-produced by both teachers and students, but getting the balance right is difficult. Just dropping lecturers with different backgrounds into the syllabus can result in a series of disconnected presentations which pushes all the work of constructing a coherent whole onto the students.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
OCTOBER 11, 2016
In this post, Dr Celine Caquineau, a lecturer at the Edinburgh Medical School in Biomedical Sciences, shares the findings of a PTAS-funded project, which evaluates the long-lasting benefits of integrated assessment and feedback practices on academic skills and performance of undergraduate students… Designing and delivering learning activities to 300+ students is challenging.
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Teaching Matters Student Employment
AUGUST 1, 2016
By the end of my second year of my undergraduate degree, I found myself in a common position: wanting to do something productive and useful with my summer, but not knowing what I’d like to do after graduation. Finding meaningful work experience can be difficult, and finding paid work experience even more so. I was happy to discover that the Employ.ed on Campus internships offer both, and the accessibility of the scheme is one of its major benefits, allowing students to support themselves during
Academic Librarian
MARCH 24, 2016
[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. I thought similar librarians might be interested in the research essay from an instructor’s perspective.]. A little bit about my background with writing instruction. I started teaching writing, or rhetoric as it’s called there, at the University of Illinois in 1992.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Most students’ host families lived in little houses, but there were some who lived in an apartment buildings, including myself. Most students, like 95% lived in these three neighborhoods: Providencia, Nunua or Las Condes. I lived in Nunoa, very close to Plaza de Nunua, which is the roughly the middle of Nunoa. Just so one can imagine, just Nunoa has over 100,000 people, so when I say neighborhood, I mean a neighborhood that takes 30-40 min to drive from south to north.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Everything great in life comes with sacrifices, and my study abroad is not an exception. Since I am an international student from the Czech Republic, I had mixed up all my flights, which resulted in extremely long journey home. I am very sure that I am not only one who has to travel 40 hours home. I fly from Santiago to Detroit via Atlanta and then from Grand Rapids to Prague via Chicago and London.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Bomberos are local firefighters and they are definitely worth of mentioning because the story behind them is amusing. Bomberos were established in 1970 at Santiago, Chile, and they are all volunteers. In one of my classes, we had a presentation about Bomberos and the life style is very similar to fraternity house in colleges and universities in the United States, which is funny.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 4, 2016
Valparaiso is a beautiful cost city in Chile only 1.5 hours from Santiago. It was founded in 1536 and it has roughly population of one million people. Valparaiso or Valpo is a very important strategic city in Chile because it has large seaport. Besides all these “boring” information, Valpo has an amazing view at the ocean, historic downtown, colorful buildings, is part of UNESCO World Heritage Site and Pablo Neruda has or had there one of his three houses.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 3, 2016
If you get the chance to travel to Santiago, you HAVE TO go to Emporio La Rosa ice cream place. It is a Chilean company and their ice-cream is ranked in the best 20 in the world. Their ice cream is phenomenal. They had around 40 different types of ice-cream and it was not too expensive as one would expect from place like that. Probably the flavor that surprised me the most in a good way was leché y arroz (milk and rice).
Teaching Matters Academic Support
DECEMBER 1, 2016
It all started with me wondering where all the Middlesborough boys had gone. Over the last 20 years as the Programme Director of Graphic Design within Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) Design School I have been accustomed to teaching a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds from across the UK. Keen to find out more about why this demographic had seemingly narrowed I began a secondment in January 2016 with the Institute of Academic Development in order to research further.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Recently I’ve been enjoying interviewing some of our experienced academics about how they have developed as teachers across their careers. I spoke with colleagues from all three Colleges about what it has been like to grow as a teacher before the recent upsurge in formal continuing professional development for teaching in higher education. All of these academics were passionate about teaching and put lots of time and energy into creating great learning experiences for our students.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
The annual Christmas Tree Lighting is one of my favorite Hope traditions. Everyone circles around a giant pine tree decorated with ornaments covered in our names. We count down from ten and, like magic, Christmas spirit skyrockets as the tree lights up the clearing. We sing Christmas carols and light candles, quietly laughing as we try to protect the flames from the winter wind.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Fondas, or Fiestas Patrias, is the most popular holiday in Chile because it celebrates the “birthday” of Chile. Yes, you probably imagine July 4th, but not exactly. Fondas or the celebrations last for whole two weeks, not only a day. Most, but not all, fondas take place at parks. It costs 5.000 Chilean Peso ($8 USD) to enter. The parks are truly huge, so just to imagine, it takes about 30 minutes to walk from the North to South.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
I have been talking only about Chile, Santiago, and all the culture related topics, but I have never mentioned the school or any of my classes or school. Last Tuesday, I have officially ended my semester in University of Chile in Faculdad de Economia y Negocios. University of Chile in Spanish Universidad de Chile was on November 19, 1842. It is the largest university in Chile.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
My next couple posts will be about our trip to Patagonia. Patagonia is very westernized and commercial term. When we spoke to the locals, they do not really recognize Patagonia, but here is the clarification from multiple points. What is Patagonia? When people, usually in Western World, talk or say they are going to Patagonia, they mean the region around Punta Arenas.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
The National Park of Chile in Chiloe is besides absolutely amazing nature and view, is also very well known for extreme weather conditions. Actually their conditions are so extreme that brands like Patagonia and North Face are testing their new gear here, before they start to sell it. These are the pictures from the park during a beautiful weather. but with our luck, we get to experience why North Face and Patagonia tests their gear here.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Castro is the capital of the Chiloé Province in the Los Lagos Region and the largest city in Island. The city is about 165.1 sq. miles and it has population of 41,667 based on 2012 census. It was established in 1567 and is the third oldest city in whole Chile. The city is interesting because of those few sights: The Regional Museum of Castro, Plaza de Armas with Gamboa (church) or Nuestra Senora de Gracia, which is a churched built in 1886 and is protected by UNESCO.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Besides visiting Chiloé’s biggest attractions like city Castro, Museums, UNESCO churches or National Park, we did a volunteer work as well. We were painting classrooms in local elementary school. The day started very early in the morning because we had drove to the school. When we arrived to school, we lined up and introduced ourselves and the states we are from.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
“This is the first time a member in my family is pursuing a master’s degree. For me, it means responsibility towards my community, family, my country and the world. I need to make good use of the opportunity to transform and impact lives and be a good representative of Ghana.” Dorcas Mensah, MasterCard Foundation Scholar, MSc in Africa & International Development This September, we welcomed 12 bright and inspiring Africans to Edinburgh University through a new partnership with The MasterCard
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
As academics, we all know the feeling when we’re asked to take on something else that will compete for our time. We also know how easy it is for things to fall towards, or even off, the bottom of our to-do lists. So, why did I choose to take part in the Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA), and was it worth it? (Spoiler: Yes.) Before we start with the whys and wherefores, I should probably explain what the EdTA is ( or you could look for yourself ).
Teaching Matters Academic Support
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
In summer 2016, the History Subject Area embarked on the largest overhaul of its curriculum in a generation. Driven by a variety of factors, including growing student numbers, changing student expectations, the renewed emphasis on teaching excellence throughout the sector, our Teaching Programme Review and external examiners’ comments, we wanted to provide a curriculum that is sustainable and speaks to the challenges of the 21st century.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
I love being one of the 50 or so mentors on the Edinburgh Teaching Award : it’s a favourite part of my job. We’re all Fellows of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) , so we know what it’s like to take a good hard look at our own teaching and our students’ learning, to challenge ourselves to improve and to go public on our successes and disappointments and what we’ve learned from them.
Teaching Matters Student Engagement
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Lecturers and students share their thoughts on the focus on sustainability in undergraduate teaching in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. The Student Research Course Foundation (SRCF) is a 10-credit course taken in the second year of the five-year undergraduate Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) degree. It is designed around a student-led group research project, allowing students to self-select their group and topic.
Teaching Matters Student Engagement
OCTOBER 18, 2016
One of the greatest teaching-related challenges for staff, particularly those engaged in large scale undergraduate teaching, is to provide valuable and rewarding learning opportunities for students. This is acutely true among practical teaching opportunities in the Sciences, due to the delicate balance that must be sought between the desire for the practical to work reliably (any error that can be made, will be made in a large enough class) and the obligation to ensure that the practical will fo
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 13, 2016
There are eighteen days until Halloween. Therefore, I am sure you are looking for some autumnal activities to make you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside as the temperature gets chilly outside. In no particular order, here are five of my favorite things to do in the fall as a Hope student. 1. Apple Picking Going apple picking is a thing in my hometown, but not nearly on the level that it is here.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Until I was 15 years old I lived in the Czech Republic, a country that in my opinion is still recovering from communistic regime. Since I was 15 years I have lived in the United States, a country that has never experienced communism. Actually on the contrary, United States were based on idea capitalist system, which probably cannot be more apart from communism or socialism.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Santiago as a city is absolutely beautiful. The city is illustrates long history, modern world, nature, parks, sports or arts. Santiago is very historic city. It was found in 1541 by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. Without any knowledge of orientation is he founded Santago right in the middle of future Chile. In the beginning the original Santiago was build like a Chessboard, which is very interesting.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
There are a lot of street dogs in Santiago. In the beginning, I took a tour and they were talking about street dogs. Usually, they are on the street for two reasons – one is sad, and one happy. Let me start with the sad one, which is the least likely scenario. People buy a little puppy. From a puppy becomes a dog and is too big or as the tour guide said, not as cute, so people just kick the dog out of the streets.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Like Canada is run by ice hockey, Chile is run by football, or like Americans would say, soccer. To future references, when I am saying football, I mean soccer, not American football. In Chile everyone watches football, especially when the national team plays. You enter a restaurant or sports bar, there is some kind of football playing. When we wanted watch the fight between McGregor vs.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 10, 2016
As a Magnificent Mile intern I get access to some pretty cool opportunities. We have monthly membership events at various members venues, for instance, last month we had a membership event at Lou Malnati’s where we were able to network with prominent Michigan Avenue business while eating pizza and tiramisu. Not a bad deal! Another really cool aspect of the job is the intern project called “My Day on the Mile” The project allows each intern to chose six members to visit and expe
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 7, 2016
For the last few days the internet was off in my apartment building, which is the reason for 10 posts today, but also a realization of how much we are depended on internet connection. This is my current position compare to rest of the world. Internet is the only way for people in Santiago to know about what is happening in the world. If internet does not work in Santiago, I and rest of us have no clue what is happening in rest of the world.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 7, 2016
I was lucky enough to find an internship while studying abroad. I found out about a company called Planet Expat , which is a headhunter company that works with startups mainly in United States and Europe. They do some other things, like coaching program, but matching students with internships abroad is their main focus. Planet Expat. I worked at Planet Expat for six weeks and besides business development, broadcasting work, I write an article about the benefits on studying abroad to one’s profes
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