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 Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Encouraging students to draw their own mind maps in a class or tutorial, followed by discussion among other students, helps them to see connections in developing an understanding. He was Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Co-ordinating Editor of Higher Education.

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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 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. Don’t try to do the same thing online as you do face-to-face. Online teaching can take place anywhere, anytime – but it doesn’t have to.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 23, 2023

Just like sparqs’ own tool for mapping student engagement in institutional structures , it is important that student reps speak not only to the staff they work most closely with but also connect the views of students they represent with the activity of senior students’ association officers. Image credit: www.sparqs.ac.uk

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

There are many different projects with students and staff co-creating the curriculum at universities around the world, although these initiatives are still relatively rare. Higher Education, 71 (2), 195-208. A model of active student participation in curriculum design: Exploring desirability and possibility. 176 – 188).

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 1, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 Most of my research and practice focuses on academic development, more specifically, supporting university staff to enhance their teaching practice in ways that can enhance student engagement. For the last ten years I have been researching the ways that staff and students co-create curricula. Aug 1, 2018

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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. Oct 22, 2019

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

She provides pedagogical advice and develops innovative approaches for CPD resources, MOOCs, and online MSc programmes. Her research interests include, e-professionalism, digital education, and research ethics. Great course, based on scientific facts, not on ideology, I loved it!”- Apr 22, 2024

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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. Development is a slippery word.

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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 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.

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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)). How do we make the most of the classroom opportunities we have? Wearing my former programme-participant hat, I found that IntroAP opened many exciting doors for me.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

It is therefore important that postgraduates who teach are trained, developed, and supported in their roles. Expectations of PGWT Postgraduates who teach should consider: seeking out opportunities for development and support, both within their organisational unit and within the wider institution.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Encouraging students to draw their own mind maps in a class or tutorial, followed by discussion among other students, helps them to see connections in developing an understanding. He was Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Co-ordinating Editor of Higher Education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In order to help teachers to have access to a wide range of literary and artistic works that may be helpful for education, higher education institutes (HEIs) usually sign a comprehensive licence with the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA). While such a licence is incredibly helpful, it has its limits.

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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 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

MARCH 6, 2019

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. Studies in Higher Education , 39 (2), 219–232. Computers & Education , 58 (2), 766–774. link] Kerawalla, L.,

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This creation of a community at the school promotes more open conversation between staff and students, and has led to some unique collaboration. As was found with this analysis, I like the idea of having lecture recording as a safety net if I need to miss class, but I also share staff concerns about decreasing attendance.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Developed to support both students and staff, it now receives well over a million visits a year and its impact is extending within and beyond higher education. The Reflection Toolkit targets two audiences – reflectors and facilitators of others’ reflection – recognising that students and staff can occupy both roles.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Her role in IAD gives her the opportunity to advise and support colleagues as they develop their digital teaching practices. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is currently undertaking a part-time PhD in educational research with a focus on hybrid teaching. This should help them manage the forum.

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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. Therefore, it is relevant right from the start and throughout the researcher degree journey by reflecting on strengths, development needs, intentions, and opportunities.

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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 Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

They allow you to achieve the corresponding fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA); I took part in Level 2, which led to a Fellowship of the HEA. 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).

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

I think this is a very useful point when thinking about what it means to implement lecture recording at scale: When new teachers join universities they are exposed to teacher development but it is unclear how widespread and/or consistent that development is. That’s okay.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 3, 2018

She has an MSc in Digital Multimedia and is currently undertaking a second MSc in Education. She is a Fellow with the Higher Education Academy and a certified member of the Association of Learning Technology. It can be an isolating and stressful time. Even induction services themselves can be a bewildering choice (e.g.,

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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 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. Oct 22, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 30, 2019

The time of the day and semester which is suitable for all staff is unlikely to be suitable for all students, and vice versa. Celine Caquineau Dr Celine Caquineau is a lecturer at the Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In this post, Professor Tina Harrison introduces the third draft chapter of the Reflective Analysis, ‘Strategy and practice for enhancing learning and teaching’, and outlines how staff and students can provide comments… WHAT IS CHAPTER 3 ABOUT? This chapter covers our strategic approach to enhancing learning and teaching. Dec 2, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

PCIM aims to deliver a golden copy of all course and programme information to be used by both prospective and current students and staff. As a result, staff time will not be wasted updating and publishing the same information in multiple locations reducing the risk of inconsistent information being presented to students.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is in this context that the University was awarded its first Key Action 203 Strategic Partnership funding by the European Commission in 2017 to develop the Network for Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship (NICE) in collaboration with 7 other European universities*.

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

What Every Cabinet Leader Needs to Know about AI How will AI transform higher education? Watch the on-demand webinar to hear EAB experts have a lively discussion of how to navigate the hype around AI and figure out what it means for your staff, constituents, and institution. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And as I ponder further, I begin to wonder about our system of learning – the one we have implied at most universities and other institutes of higher education. And yet, as soon as the workshop starts, I’m confronted by statements such as: “I love exams. They are what get me going and work hard.

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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. She also assisted during the analysis process to ensure the results were relevant to the student community.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Across disciplines, it is clear that pedagogical implications have grown to become the standout topic, followed by policy development, expectations around use and issues about copyright in this context. Indeed, for some subjects and pedagogic approaches, it may not be appropriate at all. Therefore, you are still expected to attend’.

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