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Mini-series: Blogging – What is it good for?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

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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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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Spotlight on ELIR: Draft of Chapter 3 (Reflective Analysis)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

So it details our learning and teaching-related strategies, and also covers how activities where universities across Scotland work together on a common theme have informed our policies and practices. Finally, the chapter covers how we engage, develop and support staff involved in learning and teaching.

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Two reasons from a teaching perspective are that using OA resources is of benefit to students for their current studies and future engagement with academic research and theory for professional development. Open access publishing is a key way for professionals to engage with valuable research and theory.

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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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An ‘Edinburgh Model’ for Online Teaching Programme: Notes from a pilot run

Teaching Matters Online Learning

It has been designed to complement existing continuing professional development around teaching in higher education currently being offered by the University. If interested, please contact Michael Gallagher for more information. References Moore, M. The theory of transactional distance. Handbook of distance education (3rd ed.,

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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.