Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 15, 2025

Students studying in the PPLS library, 7 George Square. After the meeting, I reached out, and we quickly realised our shared interests in bridging student and staff perspectives on these issues. Our reflections on why international student transition is critical, and the challenges it presents 1.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Alex Hadba, CC0 In this post, Lauren Smith, Digital Support Librarian, outlines why open access resources are important in teaching, how lecturers can incorporate open access resources into their teaching materials, and how Library and University Collections can support them… What is open access? Feb 20, 2020

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Library – 5 pm. People are showing pictures of exam halls, of libraries and study halls and groups of people laughing and engaging with each other. Yval recently graduated from The University of Edinburgh with an MA in Geography and this post is part of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: ‘Learning how others learn’.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 3, 2018

we offer library inductions and Information Services have IT inductions) so it makes sense to bring all of these together into a one-stop shop that students can easily access and refer back to. Fully online students may struggle without physical presence and friendly faces to keep them moving in the right direction.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This also includes a growing repository of openly licenced images taken from our library collections and pre-prepared to work as course and page headings. Image credit: Copyright University of Edinburgh In this Spotlight on Learn Ultra post, Stuart Nicol provides an update on the early adoption of Learn Ultra.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The growth of online education has greatly accelerated. Technology continues to make its mark on college campuses across the nation. With the rapid changes in whats available in devices and software, leaders of higher education institutions and faculty are being forced to think creatively about how to utilize and even embrace online education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Most universities have a growth mentality necessitated by survival. Unfortunately, this mentality extends into the legislature and funding sources, frequently resulting in cuts to RSIs that hurt the institution and its surrounding communities. RSIs are different. That’s how it came to this work. We need to make sense of rural-serving institutions.

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