Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 8, 2024

Image by Rodrigo Carvalho RCarvalho from Pixabay In this post, Professor Rachel Muers, from the School of Divinity, describes how a team of academic staff have trialed some new teaching approaches in a first year, first semester course: “Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar” based on reflection and formative feedback.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 4, 2023

I facilitate a women's studies seminar every year, and as a seminar finale, my high school students design self-directed project-based learning experiences around a subtopic of their choice. ​ One year a student chose to self-direct a PBL experience on the topic of domestic violence. ​Get your answers!

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Image by fernando zhiminaicela from Pixabay In this extra post, Dan explains how checking-in can purposefully provide some space for student reflection, and engender wellbeing, playfulness and trust in the classroom. I wanted to test how this practice would go down with University of Edinburgh students. What did you like about it?

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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. We investigated the factors that influence whether students engage with peer learning in the workplace. What did we find?

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 18, 2024

You may not get every student to respond prior to the start of the semester, but you'll probably get a number of them, and they'll probably appreciate you asking for their voices to be heard even before the start of the semester. She also authored a research-based first-year seminar textbook Student Success in College: Doing What Works!,

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Candela’s reasoning for taking this approach was to encourage students to see data management as a key aspect of the whole process of preparing for and carrying out a research project. Workshops were run in Spring and Autumn 2019, and Candela delivered training to around 100 attendees.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

Our course – Contemporary Political Theory: Engaging in Current Research – is one of several courses at Edinburgh trying something different. One of us (Kieran) convenes the course; two of us (Sabrina and Joel) were among the students who took it in its first year (2016/17). Students can offer a fresh take on old controversies.

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AIFS Abroad

OCTOBER 27, 2023

College students interested in learning more about this topic will love a humanities course we offer at our Global Education Center during fall , spring and summer semesters to our study abroad participants in London, England called Bibliotherapy: The Art of Reading. Sounds pretty great, right? It’s an exciting adventure!

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

Of course I believed students were developing ‘transferable skills’, but I was largely concerned with the nitty-gritty of the immediate skills they had to develop to perform well in their assessments! I also now appreciate the importance of students engaging in thinking about their future careers as early as possible.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s when EI rode in again, delivering seminars, training programs, skill development opportunities, and, most critically, guidance on how to secure funding. It felt like an intricate puzzle, filled with pitfalls and uncertainties. So, now that we had EI’s support and belief, what was the next step?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 5, 2024

link] Ulf-Dietrich Schoop, notes “The interconnected rooms are AI-generated 360° images; I think the (unintentional) weirdness of the AI imagery works quite well as a contrast to the ‘realness’ of the displays,” This blend of AI-generated content and student-created displays offers a unique and immersive learning experience.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 1, 2022

They also have a “work in progress” seminar series to invite PGR students to present their work. In the School of Health in Social Science, a group of PGR students started Research Bow , a blog for PGR students in the School.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 21, 2023

According to recent data from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), campuses that prioritize behavior management report higher student engagement rates, improved retention, and a more conducive atmosphere for learning.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 22, 2024

Students engaged in ASA DataFest hackathon In this extra post, Serveh Sharifi, Vanda Inacio, Ozan Evkaya, and Amanda Lenzi, academics from the School of Mathematics, share their experience and insights on hosting the American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest 2024 at The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

Original artwork by Nini-Wang, MA student at the Edinburgh College of Art In this post, James Lamb shares his experience with fusion teaching and reflects on ways to improve student engagement online by thinking beyond the face-to-face/online dichotomy. First things first. A final point.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Fewer than one-quarter of students rate their college as very sustainable, while 16 percent say it’s not too sustainable and 2 percent not at all sustainable. The data come from a Student Voice survey, conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Top Strategies for Improving Student Retention in Higher Education admin Fri, 12/23/2022 - 05:27 It is the rule of Gen Z now. Student retention refers to the ability of an educational institution to keep enrolled students enrolled until they have completed their academic program or attained their educational goals.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this ‘Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing’ post, Dr Kelly Stone, a lecturer in the Moray House School of Education and Sport, shares some approaches that she has tried to make large lectures more interactive… In a recent Practice Worth Sharing seminar, we discussed how to make large lectures more interactive.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

Foster: With SACHA it’s not all about what the university can give students through lectures and seminars but what the students can also give back to the university. It is a “give and take initiative” with the aim to involve students in the decision-making process in the University.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 5, 2024

Students who got academic counseling were 20% more likely to report greater levels of engagement and satisfaction with their educational experience. This has been proved right according to the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). It helps improve academic standing, professional interests, and personal objectives.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 30, 2022

The common narratives around the PhD student experience is that it will be hard, you will want to give up, writing-up is awful, and then, at the end of it all, you won’t be able to get your dream job. Finding a work/life balance with their research can be a challenge.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 12, 2024

Foster student success with tailored advising for excellence. The Significance of Student Information The student information serves as the bedrock for tailored support and academic achievement. It provides a holistic view of students' academic progress, preferences, and backgrounds.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Recognising this as a team of five postgraduate research students (PGR) representatives, we organised intellectually stimulating events focusing on the academic, social and wellbeing development of our diverse PGR learning community.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 16, 2020

In Part 2, led by questions from Eleri Connick (Student Communities Project Officer), Ewen and Rachel chat about creating camaraderie amongst peers and staff, and the role of Academic Societies…. Is it on one person or is it a co-partnership between both students and staff? I don’t know if students do that now?

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 27, 2023

But teaching students how to create their own high school businesses can be slightly overwhelming, and I get it. ​Let's talk high school entrepreneurship that is engaging, effective, and not overly complicated for anyone involved. My students build a digital portfolio in Google Drive that houses those required components.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Franklin University does not start up a new program without first having done its market research – is the program going to be viable and have significant enrollment – but also works with industry leaders to ensure the program teaches students the skills that business leaders want and need in its graduates.

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University Business

JULY 9, 2024

Classroom engagement is still recalibrating since the pandemic, and it will take a group effort to regain a sense of community across campus, two leaders at Bryant University’s Center for Teaching Excellence propose. “We need to articulate why the classroom is important and how students can reculture themselves to learning.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Make it possible for instructors to provide more individualized feedback and to participate in more student engagement activities (like student-faculty lunches or co-curricular activities), by, for example, shifting from 3 to 4 credit hour classes and giving faculty access to modest student engagement funds.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Rather than merely expecting students to show up and participate, it’s crucial to recognise and address their specific needs. Meanwhile, Kristina explores the use of podcasts as an innovative form of assessment in her courses, providing a fresh perspective on evaluating student learning.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 23, 2025

In order to improve our students learning experience, preparation and confidence, and motivated by the great amount of digital material created during COVID-19 lockdown in academic year 2020-21 (AY20/21), we developed and implemented in LearnULTRA a step-by-step online preparation for our CEL3 course.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The college-to-career pipeline is broken, and the best way to fix it is to give students more latitude in choosing their own work-based learning experiences, says Jane Swift, president of Education at Work and former governor of Massachusetts, on the latest University Business Podcast.

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