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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on remote teaching’ post, Yi-Shan Tsai, research associate at the School of Informatics, talks about the advantages and challenges of blended learning design and what questions to consider when adopting this approach. The course begins on 11 May on FutureLearn.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Image Credit: Pixabay In this post, Prof Noel Entwistle introduces crucial insights gathered from his research into student learning dynamics at The University of Edinburgh. Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students.

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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 Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We have continued to keep an eye on new research being published in the sector in addition to commissioning and funding lecture recording research at the University through our Engagement and Evaluation group (much of it already covered in this mini-series). That’s okay.

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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. Research profile Laura Wardrop Laura Wardrop is the CPD Manager for the Easter Bush Campus.

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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 Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

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.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 30, 2019

With this in mind, the deanery ran two new initiatives this year: “Meet the researcher Prize Draw” in semester 1, and “Student Staff Cake and Coffee Conversation” in semester 2. 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 Communities

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Session 1: Mental Health Promotion in Higher Education We had our first session of the semester in Week 1 ( 17 Sept 2019). In this first session, led by Deborah Holt, we looked at the importance of mental health promotion in higher education. For more details please see the QEA webpages. Oct 23, 2019

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 17, 2019

Their discussion is based on their recent PTAS research , which explores how assessed blogs are being used across the University. In this episode, they chat about the use of blogs as a form of assessment with regards to marking criteria, course design, staff investment, technological limitations, writing style, and digital footprint.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 26, 2020

Our experience and research into online teaching leads us to conclude that it can be an enormously enjoyable and effective strategy for learning and teaching. Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. References Aitken, G., and Loads, D. and Jones, D.

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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. If you’d like to know more about this research or read what I’ve published about it then do get in touch with me.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

She shares some of the themes that have emerged and considers what research published this year is telling us about lecture recording, as a prelude to our own evaluation report to be launched here next week. Higher Education , 1-19, [link]. A well-argued critique of the Edwards and Clinton paper (and the associated tweeting!)

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Umberto, CC0 In this article, Eugen Stoica, Scholarly Communications Officer, explains the relationship between Copyright – Creative Commons licences – Open Access, and why these are important for teaching and education. While such a licence is incredibly helpful, it has its limits. Suber, 2008 ).

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 26, 2018

How can we provide the best possible experience for our students, whilst also advancing our own practice and career, alongside our postgraduate studies or research? One option that can address these questions and hurdles is a professional teaching accreditation with Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy (HEA)).

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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. Our role as staff is not as “disciplinary content experts” (Bovill et al., Higher Education, 71(2), 195-208.

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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

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. Read more about Daphne’s research: Loads, D.

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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. We drew on experience, practice, and research from across the University and sector to create a pragmatic resource that supports effective reflective practice.

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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. Sep 23, 2021

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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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Benefits of using open access resources in teaching There are many reasons engaging with OA content is beneficial across all aspects of higher education. Open access publishing is a key way for professionals to engage with valuable research and theory.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!) Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance? creates different spaces for conversations around teaching and learning. Their results were rather conclusive… 2.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Session 1: Mental Health Promotion in Higher Education We had our first session of the semester in Week 1 ( 17 Sept 2019). In this first session, led by Deborah Holt, we looked at the importance of mental health promotion in higher education. For more details please see the QEA webpages. Oct 23, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 28, 2020

2020) Participatory alignment: a positive relationship between educators and students during online masters dissertation supervision. Teaching in Higher Education 0(0). link] Gill Aitken Gill Aitken is the Programme Director of the MSc in Clinical Education, Edinburgh Medical School. Taylor & Francis: 1–15.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 6, 2019

This included individual reflective writing, writing for public audiences, group writing, showcasing project/research work, and multi-modal blogging. The appropriation and repurposing of social technologies in higher education. Studies in Higher Education , 39 (2), 219–232. link] Kerawalla, L., Minocha, S.,

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 18, 2020

Asking all of your students to research a simple point relevant to your course and to share their answers in a Learn discussion board to create a big pool of ideas; Short recordings of you and a colleague discussing a key topic; Short overview videos to guide students, using Kaltura and Media Hopper. Instead how about …? Mar 18, 2020

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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 Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

Some colleagues who have an interest in technology-enhanced learning joined the team, and we spent two years rigorously synthesising the literature on social media in nursing and midwifery education (O’Connor et al, 2017). Sarah was keen to co-lead the review to gain some research experience during her undergraduate studies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

An important focus of Sarah’s work is to enhance IAD collaboration and engagement with colleagues in Schools and Colleges and beyond to support high quality teaching and research provision in Higher Education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 24, 2019

Blogging is also at the heart of the Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA), one of the professional development pathways to Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Reading candidates’ blog posts is always a pleasure as they are informal and engaging, but also supported with references to relevant reading and research.

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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 Student Engagement

MARCH 2, 2022

Students have a unique perspective to foresee how climate change will be most relevant to them, which we should use to guide progress in sustainable education through active communication. Research shows around 77% of students in higher education have experienced climate anxiety.

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