The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

2019) defined flipped classrooms as increasing regular student engagement in course material with marginal involvement from the instructor. In a flipped classroom model, students are expected to take the lead in their learning during pre-class, in-class, and post-class work (Al-Samarraie et al., during the in-class phase.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Part of the apex6 expedition at the summit of Huayna Potosi (6088m) – Image Credit David Geddes In this extra post, Colette Revadillo, David Geddes, and Anya Tan showcase APEX 7, an upcoming student-led medical research expedition to Bolivia that seeks to advance the field of high-altitude medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

He describes his current work as “being a thought leader, resource person and a fundraiser, a person looking at innovative ways to implement some of our programs and activities that we provide for students at UCLA.” It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 3, 2025

Haolan is a Post-graduate Tutor at the Biomedical Teaching Organisation, and a Doctoral Student in Diabetes and Steroid Endocrinology. Postgraduate student-led tutorial is a cornerstone of undergraduate curriculum in the Edinburgh Medical School, Biomedical Sciences and beyond. Then it occurred to me. Mar 3, 2025

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

You might think that the teaching content in a professional vocational degree like medicine – defined by the governing body the General Medical Council ( GMC ) and detailing what a medical student should know as they exit their undergraduate programme and embark on their first day as a junior doctor – would be almost entirely prescriptive.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Two of our AFHEA students from the 2018 cohort presented on their own approaches to teaching at the vet school’s Celebrating Teaching event (see picture below). This is a lesson to step out into the adventure that is student engagement and partnership – you never know where it may lead! Medical Teacher 38, 208-210.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 8, 2021

Photo credit: iStock CC0 In this post, Margaret MacDougall and Sophia Wong Ching Hwai share their thoughts on implementing per-session feedback as an effective way of creating a sense of partnership between students and instructors and enhancing student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Whitedog Photography, [link] Jessica Miller, a first year medical student at the Edinburgh Medical School , shares an inspiring initiative bringing together an Engagement and Inclusivity group. It aims to promote a sense of belonging and a space to enable friendly connections for Year 1 medical students.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2019

We were keen to work with students as pedagogical co-creators – developing the learning strategy and resources – and hoped that this kind of partnership would enhance the process and the outcomes of the curriculum design by introducing new and potentially different perspectives and experiences.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Dr Neil Hudson, Senior Veterinary Clinical Lecturer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Director of the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education reflects on the benefits of enabling undergraduate students to participate in teaching.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Image credit: unsplash, Ying Ge, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Adan Chew, Dr Jess Gurney, and Dr Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, from Edinburgh Medical School, explore the concept of student-centred education through the lens of medical education and clinical practice. 2021; Trinidad, 2020)​.

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University Business

APRIL 18, 2025

Student enrollment on the Tamiami Trail campus has doubled since his first year as president.He In an official statement, Averett University President David Joyce said he is stepping down from his role at Averett University after his wife received a “serious medical diagnosis that will require [his] full-time attention.”

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He discusses how the integration of these AI-driven tools into his coursework not only enhances the efficiency of learning complex programming concepts but also redefines the pedagogical strategies aimed at fostering deeper student engagement and understanding. They are an important aspect of plans surrounding technology in education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

To get around my fears, I realised that using a more interactive lesson meant more freedom in what I was saying and kept students engaged. Neil adds: The work with schools has really been embraced by our students. I was most nervous about having to deliver a lesson within time. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the trip.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Applied humanities education prepares students to use humanities knowledge and methods in practice rather than only in theory. Expanding the use of applied humanities will help students engage in knowledge transfer, “dezoning” knowledge. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 14, 2019

This is a challenge for students and teachers alike when ‘peer learning’ – the mutual learning when students at a similar level teach each another – is used. This is a challenge for students and teachers alike when ‘peer learning’ – the mutual learning when students at a similar level teach each another – is used.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

The University of Utah recently joined the University Innovation Alliance , a coalition of 15 public research universities working to increase graduation rates among low-income students, first-generation students and students of color. You’ve probably been reading about the looming demise of U.S. higher education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 6, 2025

VR’s successful applications range widely: in healthcare , it trains doctors and nurses on complex medical procedures; in the defence sector, it prepares soldiers for the intense realities of combat; and in retail , it enhances employee training across numerous operational areas.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Image credit: unsplash, Ying Ge, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Adan Chew, Dr Jess Gurney, and Dr Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, from Edinburgh Medical School, explore the concept of student-centred education through the lens of medical education and clinical practice. 2021; Trinidad, 2020)​.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Moondance from Pixabay In this post, Robbie Carnegie, Maggie Livingstone, Harrison Loader and Diana Stamatopoulos, year 4 and 5 Medical students contribute to the discussions around the assessment and feedback principles and priorities, from the perspective of medical students as peer assessors.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 13, 2021

Original artwork by Estela Salas, Edinburgh College of art student In this post, Layla Mathieson discusses her experience as a PhD student at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Optical Medical Imaging (OPTIMA) in developing a Student-Led Independently Created Course (or SLICC) with an industry partner back in April 2020, during lockdown.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 1, 2020

Coming to medical school can be particularly daunting because, from day one, you are introduced to new professional responsibilities, whilst dealing with the pressures and challenges of everyday student life. A barbecue or equivalent social event is hosted for all the first and second-year students to give everyone a chance to meet.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Student-led APEX6 high-altitude expedition to the Bolivian Andes. Image credit: Isla Petrie, Medical Student Welcome to the September-October Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2022. 2022/23 Student Partnership Agreement Funding It is also an opportune time to raise awareness of the new call for funding for 2022-23.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Image credit: Patrick Perkins, unsplash, cc0 In this extra post, Jane Hislop and Tim Fawns from The University of Edinburgh’s Medical School continue conversation on effective feedback by spotlighting the success of their online MSc Clinical Education course. 1) and generate their own internal feedback. and Molloy, E. and Boud, D.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] When this is the first thing you say to a class of 200+ medical students, it raises a few eyebrows! The SSC2b is a small window of opportunity in Semester 2 of second year, which is designed to enable our students to do something beyond mainstream medicine, or indeed undertake something very different.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 30, 2023

Avita Rath is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School and she shares her experience teaching dentistry at a dental school in Malaysia. Somehow, hidden disabilities have become an exclusive ‘student issue’ ( Saltes, 2022 ). So, what do we do about it?!

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr Avita Rath is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School. Design I designed a formative peer feedback activity for year 3 undergraduate dental students around a few periodontics topics using Padlet; an interactive, collaborative learning platform. Why Padlet?!

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Clark Nesxen

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Cape Fear Community College recently developed a Veterinary Medical Technology program based on local workforce demand. Students engage in hands-on learning with multiple species of animals as part of Cape Fear Community College’s Veterinary Medical Technology program.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

2023/24 Student Partnership Agreement Funding It is also an opportune time to raise awareness of the new call for funding for 2023-24. 2023/24 Student Partnership Agreement Funding It is also an opportune time to raise awareness of the new call for funding for 2023-24. Sep 5, 2023

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

CC0 Q: What do a laboratory at 4700m, 34 Edinburgh students, and a bulldozer have in common? A: The APEX 5 high altitude medical research expedition, which gave its student volunteers and organisers a unique and unforgettable learning experience. For its six medical student organisers, APEX 5 provided a steep learning curve.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Student Research Course Foundation (SRCF) is a 10-credit course taken in the second year of the five-year undergraduate Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) degree. It is designed around a student-led group research project, allowing students to self-select their group and topic.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this post, Isla Petrie, a senior student at the Medical School, reflects on an exciting student-led research expedition in the mountains of South America, organised through Student Partnership Agreement funding. These students were the most important part of our expedition.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 3, 2019

” So, at an instrumentally beneficial level, “research-led teaching reflects and makes use of the teacher’s disciplinary research to benefit student learning and outcomes” (Trowler & Wareham, 2008). Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

Ellen and Tara then move on to talking about these areas through three different, yet overlapping, lenses: Research: Ellen and Tara want to see the University engage ALL of its students in the research work that it is so proud of as an institution. The talk moves to questioning how a University can enable these aspirations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many instructors now teach both in person and online, which has made some aware that students may succeed in accomplishing learning goals without showing up. Subsequently, many are now asking important questions about which students are centered in the classroom. It should be something that you do.”

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Lecture recordings – domestic and international student comparison Are teaching resources and lecture recordings equally useful to domestic and international students? That is the question being addressed by a team from the Medical School in this PTAS project. Find out more from Frank.Mill@ed.ac.uk

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