Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 3, 2025

Postgraduate tutors often have little or no experience in teaching in higher education and need feedback to refine their practice. So, how do we gather quality feedback for all staff and postgraduate tutors, without overwhelming the students with different feedback routes across multiple platforms?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The growth of online education has greatly accelerated. With the rapid changes in whats available in devices and software, leaders of higher education institutions and faculty are being forced to think creatively about how to utilize and even embrace online education. The most recent year-to-year growth of 5.6

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Some years ago, an educational research project in this university ( ETL Project ) set out to explore the students’ experiences of teaching and learning in eight universities and four contrasting subject areas, and how different teaching-learning environments influenced students’ approaches to studying.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 27, 2017

In September 2016 Sally Brown , an assessment, learning and teaching in higher education consultant, was invited to speak. The next meeting is in May 2017 and will be looking at opportunities for staff development such as the Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Academic Practice (PgCAP) and peer observation.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 11, 2017

It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes. Nurse Education Today, 14, 299-305. J Med Educ, 58, 457 – 461. Medical Teacher, 29, 297-300 Catriona Bell Dr Catriona Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Whilst the sessions are based at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, anyone across the University is invited to attend, and the topics are related to learning and teaching in all disciplines. Session 1: Mental Health Promotion in Higher Education We had our first session of the semester in Week 1 ( 17 Sept 2019).

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 26, 2020

The level of engagement that is possible in online teaching came as a surprise to participants in Aitken & Loads’ (2019) paper describing the experiences of educators new to online teaching. Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. and Jones, D.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

In few places does this remain more evident than in higher education facilities organizations, where the unique flexibility of people is needed to serve a complex combination of human, operational and building demands. Now, they’re cutting staff Developing talent isn’t just about technical skills.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

However, I would consider several good examples from the Teaching Matters blog to be co-created, such as the Conservation Science course , Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World course, many examples of experiential education and place-based education , and creative learning and teaching with Lego. Bovill, C., & Felten, P.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

The University offers a wide range of continuing professional development (CPD) resources and courses, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), on different platforms (EdX, Coursera, and Future Learn). She provides pedagogical advice and develops innovative approaches for CPD resources, MOOCs, and online MSc programmes.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

These issues will be discussed in great detail in the upcoming free and online course “Making Blended Education Work” starting May 11th… In the recent New Media Consortium horizon report (Alexander et al., driving Ed Tech adoption in higher education for the next one to two years). Reference Alexander, B.,

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 23, 2023

Simon Varwell Simon Varwell is Senior Development Consultant at sparqs , Scotland’s national agency for student engagement, where he leads on institutional support and staff development.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

The strategic context Every four years, QAA Scotland undertakes a cycle of reviews of all Scottish higher education institutions, focusing on enhancing the student experience – this is called the Enhancement-Led Institutional Review, or ELIR. Labake’s PhD research is exploring internationalisation of higher education and employability.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 28, 2020

As discussed in a previous post , Kelly Smith, a recent graduate of the MSc Clinical Education, in her dissertation, chose to look at what factors were important in the development of a positive online supervisory relationship. Teaching in Higher Education 0(0). References Aitken G, Smith K, Fawns T, & Jones, D.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 1, 2018

For the last ten years I have been researching the ways that staff and students co-create curricula. I can’t imagine the BBC commissioning me to lead a TV series where I could showcase higher education co-created curriculum in the style of Professor Brian Cox on Astrophysics or Professor Mary Beard on Roman History.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Some years ago, an educational research project in this university ( ETL Project ) set out to explore the students’ experiences of teaching and learning in eight universities and four contrasting subject areas, and how different teaching-learning environments influenced students’ approaches to studying.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 6, 2019

Towards a framework for educational affordances of blogs. Computers & Education , 56 (2), 441–451. The appropriation and repurposing of social technologies in higher education. Exploring students’ understanding of how blogs and blogging can support distance learning in Higher Education. link] Gogia, L.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 17, 2019

Read the HEA Case Study, Using blogs as a form of Assessment , in Transforming Assessment In Higher Education (pp. Nina Morris Dr Nina Morris (N.Morris@ed.ac.uk, @_NinaJM ) is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 27, 2020

If you want to know more, the study has recently been published in Teaching in Higher Education. Gill supervised the project and over Kelly’s time on the MSc Clinical Education they had developed a good working relationship. Postdigital Science and Education , 1 (2), pp.293-297. Apr 27, 2020

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Commonly, we face a situation in higher education where teaching and research are considered as separate entities rather than as endeavours that support and enhance one another, and we wanted to challenge this perception. Studies in Higher Education , 29(6), 709-726. Making short politics placements work. Griffiths, R.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 12, 2019

As part of the role, postgraduate peer tutors can work towards their Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), in a similar way to the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education. All of the peer tutors are professionals, returning to study with a view to developing their careers. ‘We

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 24, 2019

Eli is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a masters student with Moray House, and is embarking on her first research project looking into studio teaching online. James Lamb James Lamb is an ESRC-funded PhD student within the Centre for Research in Digital, where he also teaches on the MSc in Digital Education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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. Nov 30, 2016

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Dr Catherine Bovill is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement, and Celeste McLaughlin is Head of Academic Development for Digital Education, and are both based at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD). During 2020, academics had gained digital confidence and developed new teaching practices. Jan 17, 2022

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Celeste McLaughlin Celeste McLaughlin is Head of Academic Development for Digital education and is based in the Learning and Teaching Team within the Institute for Academic Development. Her role in IAD gives her the opportunity to advise and support colleagues as they develop their digital teaching practices.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Soon after I had taken on a new role as Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development in autumn 2022, I enrolled on the PgCAP programme. Reviewing the use of Training Needs Analysis One of the key elements of doctoral education is an emphasis on postgraduate researchers’ training and development.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2019

Exploring what counts in higher education, on 3 and 4 June 2020, in Glasgow. The Enhancement Themes are key areas identified and agreed by the Scottish higher education sector as a means for institutions, academic staff, support staff and students to work together in a focused way to enhance the learning experience for students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In my current veterinary medicine degree, I don’t have choices in my coursework, and no general education core courses, but my degree is setting me up for a specific career. While at the Dick Vet, Vikky has enjoyed spending time with the university’s archery club and doing activities for the education certificate.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Experiential education: Defining features for curriculum and pedagogy (23 August 2018) Dr Simon Beames, a senior lecturer in Outdoor Learning at Moray House School of Education, along with his colleagues, presents a theoretical framework of experiential education that is centred around six defining features.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 26, 2018

One option that can address these questions and hurdles is a professional teaching accreditation with Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy (HEA)). With new areas of literature comes a whole new language and many new ideas, often requiring a great deal of effort to get one’s head around.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Open access (OA) can be seen as one string of the bow in the open education landscape. Open access and open education both stress the importance of making knowledge available for individuals around the world, regardless of wealth or status ( Elder 2020 ).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Photo credit: Andrés Ordorica In this post, Andrés Ordorica, an Instructional Designer in the Educational Design and Engagement team (Information Services), answers the most frequent question he is asked as in his job: ‘what is learning design?’… Other offerings include MOOCs , digital skills training and open-educational resources.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 24, 2019

My blog, Open World , is where I have built my academic identity, it’s where I gather evidence of my skills, keep a record of my professional outputs, and reflect on my experience of working as a learning technologist and open education practitioner. She is a Trustee of Wikimedia UK, and the Association for Learning Technology.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

Both Sarah and I were intrigued by how students learn when using social media, and we decided to review the evidence to see if it was beneficial or not, and, if it was, how we could incorporate it effectively into nursing education. A mixed study systematic review of social media in nursing and midwifery education: protocol.

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