Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2019

However, while there is a great range of quality teaching practices within subject areas and programmes, and there are some excellent examples of embedding professional development for teaching within these, COL – the result of several mergers – has lacked a sense of shared, ‘whole school’ identity.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In this post, Professor Tina Harrison introduces the third draft chapter of the Reflective Analysis, ‘Strategy and practice for enhancing learning and teaching’, and outlines how staff and students can provide comments… WHAT IS CHAPTER 3 ABOUT? This chapter covers our strategic approach to enhancing learning and teaching.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Ideas about professional development for university teachers have also moved on. While teacher development often takes place through formal programmes or workshops, there are also powerful opportunities for development through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. What’s the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS)?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

There are many different projects with students and staff co-creating the curriculum at universities around the world, although these initiatives are still relatively rare. Indeed, often it can be difficult to delineate exactly what is co-creation of the curriculum and where these projects are taking place.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

You need to accrue 40 points over a range of criteria, such as designing and planning learning activities, assessment and feedback and continuing professional development (CPD). As academics, we all know the feeling when we’re asked to take on something else that will compete for our time. Spoiler: Yes.)

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 26, 2018

Fiona Quinlan-Pluck Fiona is an Academic Developer for Tutors and Demonstrators (T+D) at the Institute for Academic Development. Fiona facilitates professional development workshops for T+D’s and IntroAP. How do we make the most of the classroom opportunities we have? Jul 26, 2018

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 18, 2020

In this special Spotlight series on Remote Teaching , Velda McCune, Deputy Director of the Institute for Academic Development and Head of the Learning and Teaching Team, shares tips and resources for an effective move into online teaching… Not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking more than usual about teaching online.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

She has oversight of the continuing professional development opportunities which the IAD offers for staff involved in teaching and supporting student learning. Informal conversations help build community It can be useful to provide opportunities for students to have informal conversations. This should help them manage the forum.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Developed to support both students and staff, it now receives well over a million visits a year and its impact is extending within and beyond higher education. The Reflection Toolkit targets two audiences – reflectors and facilitators of others’ reflection – recognising that students and staff can occupy both roles.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 6, 2019

Over the years, we’ve developed expertise in how to use blogs to support learning and teaching , engage audiences with our work, build communities, and underpin professional development. But, until last October, it’s probably fair to say that our central support was lagging behind what our users needed.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

The course staff feel that a more private blog is a good way for students to express ideas and reflect on them (in a safe space), and really helps the course staff and the student to connect. Students develop their own set of personal and professional skills and attributes, and often use a blog to reflect on their progress.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 24, 2019

Eli Appleby-Donald Eli is part of the learning technology team at ECA, supporting professional and teaching staff in the classroom and online. She joined IS last August, coming from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, where she was an IT Manager with a particular interest in learning using technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Weaver (2021) calls on the need for homeplace to be developed in schools and references Love’s (2019) notion of homeplace as a “space where Black folx truly matter…where souls are nurtured, comforted, and fed” (p. There must be an intention to see Black youth fully and to understand they are more than the sum of their traumatic experiences.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 9, 2019

Professional development: I’d heard from colleagues that Utrecht would be a welcoming institution. There are so many benefits from participating in a Go Abroad Staff experience – for personal & professional development as well as for your team and the wider University. Here’s how the conversation went….

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Therefore, it is relevant right from the start and throughout the researcher degree journey by reflecting on strengths, development needs, intentions, and opportunities. So, what all started as part of my own professional development, resulted in a project all about professional development, and created a professional development opportunity.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It not only triggered a lot of anxiety for students who might be unsure about their career paths and what their subsequent development needs are, but also and most importantly did not make any space to reflect on personal development. Training doesn’t have to be a chore.”

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