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Student engagement in teaching and learning: Like eating your broccoli?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

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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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

Curricula Earlham College offers a diverse range of undergraduate programs, with popular majors including Biology, Environmental Science, International Studies, Business, and Psychology. Strong Science and Environmental Programs The Joseph Moore Museum and expansive natural study areas provide unique hands-on research opportunities.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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.