Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Photo credit: Flickr, Muffet, CC0 In this post, a visiting Research Fellow from Australia, Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, explores the question: is scaling-up of student-staff partnership initiatives necessarily a good approach?… Research shows that partnership initiatives are often small-scale.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al., The students work on real research questions, using current state-of-the-art models and real data, to solve specific applied problems and feed into wider publishable research project.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research. General discussion ensued.

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