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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. The dissertation in this program is a major applied research project that is the culmination of a rigorous program of study leading to the Ed.

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Roslin to Rodica: Strengthening research links in animal breeding and genomics

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The Go Abroad Staff Teaching programme enabled this through a week-long mobility at the Animal Science Department (Rodica), which is few kilometres outside of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The objective of the mobility was to strengthen links via teaching, discussing research projects and reciprocal visits. Apr 23, 2019

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Researching our Learning and Teaching – get involved, get informed

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Participate in a Universitas 21 network survey on teaching and find out more about ongoing research on teaching practices and attitudes. What do academic staff truly believe about and value in their teaching? Over 1200 academic staff across eleven Faculties completed the UBC survey. Apr 25, 2016

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Research shows shown that peer observation is an extremely valuable process (Irby, 1983; Brown and Ward-Griffin, 1994; Siddiqui et al., 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. References Brown, B. &

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The Growth of Online Education Provides Opportunities: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 9

The Change Leader, Inc.

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. However, their resistance tends to be due to the following: Faculty lose control of the presentation of the materials.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

They can also be a useful resource for researchers looking to better understand the relationship between teaching practices and learning. These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Many aspects of co-creation of the curriculum can also advance characteristics that students perceive as excellence in teaching and student support, as we found in previous research drawing on the Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Teaching Awards data (Lubicz-Nawrocka & Bunting, 2018). Higher Education, 71 (2), 195-208.