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Getting to Know You – Finding out who’s who in the Edinburgh Medical School

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Nevertheless, for undergraduate students, small class sizes in a large university can still mean that there’s lots of staff they don’t know, and sometimes it’s hard to feel part of a community. Developing a strong sense of community is something that is really important to us in the medical school.

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Gathering student feedback as a postgraduate tutor

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Postgraduate student-led tutorial is a cornerstone of undergraduate curriculum in the Edinburgh Medical School, Biomedical Sciences and beyond. ” Haolan Tu Haolan Tu is an Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership student in Diabetes and Steroid Endocrinology, and Associate Fellow of HEA since 2024.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Staff new to online teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The paper is entitled “Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: Implications for academic staff development”, and you can find it in the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice. I was much more interested in relationships and interaction. you certainly can.

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes. Medical Teacher, 29, 297-300 Catriona Bell Dr Catriona Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Education. For example, how you encourage contributions from students in a tutorial.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Top ten tips for teaching online

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Although our experience is (mainly) based on teaching health professionals on a postgraduate taught programme, we think the lessons are transferable to other courses and programmes: Keep it simple. Don’t try to do the same thing online as you do face-to-face. Online teaching can take place anywhere, anytime – but it doesn’t have to.

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Mini-series: Engaging with lecture recording: Learning from each other

Teaching Matters Online Learning

That is the question being addressed by a team from the Medical School in this PTAS project. The Engagement and Evaluation Group is committed to overcoming barriers to support staff and students and identify what works well, in which contexts, and for whom. Find out more from Frank.Mill@ed.ac.uk or Cinzia.Pusceddu@ed.ac.uk

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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The next meeting is in May 2017 and will be looking at opportunities for staff development such as the Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Academic Practice (PgCAP) and peer observation. There was also a discussion around the merits and challenges of lecture recording.