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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Staff new to online teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The paper is entitled “Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: Implications for academic staff development”, and you can find it in the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice. Mar 27, 2020

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Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing: Supporting community-building and wellbeing amongst student cohorts during Covid-19

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The ‘Practice Worth Sharing’ (PWS) forum in the Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES) aims to promote discussion and to share information about practice that has worked well for academic/professional services staff, as well as providing opportunities to take a ‘tricky issue’ for discussion. May 4, 2020

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The Students’ Association Student-Led Teaching Awards 2022

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Staff play a pivotal role in the student experience at The University of Edinburgh, from Lecturers and Tutors to Supervisors, Personal Tutors and Professional Services staff. Natalie also provides support for strategic development and training relating to academic representation. May 3, 2022

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The Students’ Association’s Students-Led Teaching Awards 2021: Nominations now open

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Staff play a pivotal role in the student experience at the University of Edinburgh, from Lecturers and Tutors to Supervisors, Personal Tutors and Professional Services staff. Natalie also provides support for strategic development and training relating to academic representation.

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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Mini-series: The importance of diversifying the curriculum: Reflections from the Senate Task Group

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Photo credit: pixabay, rawpixel, CC0 This first post of the mini-series in ‘ P romoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum’ is written by Diva Mukherji, Vice President Education at Edinburgh University Students’ Association.

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Mini-series: What is the value of lecture recording at the University of Edinburgh?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Methodology Figure 1: Thematic map of staff and student concerns with lecture recording I’ve always found conversations more useful than written communications, which is probably why I’ve used unstructured interviews to collect some of our data on attitudes towards lecture recording across the university.