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Building a teaching and learning community at the Centre for Open Learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

However, while there is a great range of quality teaching practices within subject areas and programmes, and there are some excellent examples of embedding professional development for teaching within these, COL – the result of several mergers – has lacked a sense of shared, ‘whole school’ identity.

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How our experienced academics develop as teachers

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

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.

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Time Well Spent: Reflections on undertaking the EdTA 

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

You need to accrue 40 points over a range of criteria, such as designing and planning learning activities, assessment and feedback and continuing professional development (CPD). Assessment is through a reflective (private) blog and/or an oral presentation.

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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and PTAS

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Ideas about professional development for university teachers have also moved on. While teacher development often takes place through formal programmes or workshops, there are also powerful opportunities for development through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Happy reading!

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Many of the staff we’ve spoken to admit that blogging with their course is extra work for them but that the extra work is worth it for the benefits, and the genuine excitement about viewing the blogs submitted by their students. We’ll be announcing dates for our training soon on the MyEd Event Booking Channel. Look out for it!