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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. Before I tried it, like many people, I considered online teaching to be in some ways second rate.

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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating ‘best practice’ across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating 'best practice' across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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Welcome to the August issue of Teaching Matters: Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

With Spotlight on Joint Degrees , a monthly blog post will bring you notes from the field, which we hope will encourage discussion across the university about what joint degrees should look like, and facilitate productive dialogue between students, professional services staff and academics.

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Mini-series: The importance of diversifying the curriculum: Reflections from the Senate Task Group

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The membership of the group spanned all three colleges, academics and professional services, and created a space for holistic discussions about this to occur. In 2018, the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee task group, “ Promoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum ”, was created to address these concerns.

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Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing: Supporting community-building and wellbeing amongst student cohorts during Covid-19

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The ‘Practice Worth Sharing’ (PWS) forum in the Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES) aims to promote discussion and to share information about practice that has worked well for academic/professional services staff, as well as providing opportunities to take a ‘tricky issue’ for discussion.

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Mini-series: What is the value of lecture recording at the University of Edinburgh?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Methodology Figure 1: Thematic map of staff and student concerns with lecture recording I’ve always found conversations more useful than written communications, which is probably why I’ve used unstructured interviews to collect some of our data on attitudes towards lecture recording across the university.