Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

If you are interested in applying for a PTAS grant, you can find information here , or contact Emily or Daphne. If you are interested in meeting with other colleagues to discuss and plan SOTL projects, you can find information about the SOTL network here.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 26, 2020

When crafting discussion board postings, remember you are modelling to your students how you want them to communicate with each other in terms of tone and content. In most cases, you want it to be courteous but informal. Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

For students, the nature of an academic understanding is often far from clear, but research interviews showed how visualisation could be used to bring ideas together into a satisfying personal understanding, as this final-year student did in her preparations for Finals.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2017

Hoping to encourage discussion, generate ideas and learn from existing good practice within the History department at Edinburgh, I received funding from the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme in March 2016 to produce a website with the aim of empowering postgraduate students in history to become better teachers.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

Integrating and embedding the SDGs more formally into university curricula will build on the existing knowledge base that many students leave school with, and allow them to develop this further, applying it to their degree programmes in novel and innovative ways.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 23, 2017

Carey defined facilitators in the teaching setting as being “seen as resources for learning rather than as sources of information.” Prior to “kick-off” I will devote time to creating a safe teaching environment, explaining the nature of our learning, and ask participants about their expectations for their own learning.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2019

COL teaching colleagues and students engage in an enormous range of types of teaching and learning practices every day. We have recently turned our mind to improving this.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

Nursing students often tell me that they spend a lot of time on social media posting information and links, sharing photos and videos, and interacting with friends, family and others in these virtual environments. This prompted me to reflect on my own social media use, and whether I gained any value for the time I spent online.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Peer interactions within discussions can motivate students by giving them an opportunity to share ideas about the topic, which leads to deeper learning and critical thinking. Informal conversations help build community It can be useful to provide opportunities for students to have informal conversations.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 6, 2023

Over two days in June, the Institute for Academic Development hosted the sixth annual Learning and Teaching Conference , ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice’ The first day was in-person and live-streamed, and the second was fully online. Jul 6, 2023

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2017

Hoping to encourage discussion, generate ideas and learn from existing good practice within the History department at Edinburgh, I received funding from the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme in March 2016 to produce a website with the aim of empowering postgraduate students in history to become better teachers.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

Despite these seemingly complicated variables, Emily, Andrew, and Eric all agree that the critical thing is to simply get started and “trust in your instincts” As Andrew notes: … Emily, [you] told me that, at the very beginning, not to get overwhelmed, and that it takes time to build up a repository of information.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

Despite these seemingly complicated variables, Emily, Andrew, and Eric all agree that the critical thing is to simply get started and “trust in your instincts” As Andrew notes: … Emily, [you] told me that, at the very beginning, not to get overwhelmed, and that it takes time to build up a repository of information.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I used my internship to create a guide for staff on using analytics, providing recommendations the School should consider moving forwards.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Educating students about open access from the beginning of their studies, helping them understand how publishing (and library subscription) works, and how they can access open access publications, will help them develop their digital and information literacy skills immensely in their future careers.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The post features a range of ‘mini-blogs’ from students who use lecture recording to support their learning… Students have been at the heart of the Lecture Recording Programme, from procurement through to delivery and support, providing a unique insight into students’ needs and wants from a lecture recording service.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 6, 2020

At the end of 2019, Teaching Matters was also delighted to welcome Josephine Foucher to the team, who will be focusing on increasing student engagement with Teaching Matters, and supporting students to write and contribute to the blog and podcast. But this is not the case if the student went to a high ranked university.

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