Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 3, 2025

If you do get a sneak peek of those feedback, you would sometimes get one or two sentences such as the tutorials are helpful, or the tutorials are useless which makes you wonder: is it my teaching? Then it occurred to me. Since my students are all there at the tutorial, I can just ask them on the spot! Everyone thrives through feedback.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Background Currently, on-boarding new staff with academic (and academic support) responsibilities, does not necessarily include a routine introduction to the learning technology available at Edinburgh, nor advice on its application. We are hoping that this resource will be found useful and shared widely.

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Roompact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The feeling of newness is starting to wear off, students are starting to test limits with policy and misbehave in a variety of ways, and your staff is moving past their seemingly fake smiles and are starting to lose their. September is often when it feels like ResLife professionals are in the thick of it. Continue Reading →

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 27, 2020

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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Roompact

JULY 24, 2024

Soooo…if anyone knows how to slow down time, now would be the time for you to utilize those talents. I mean it is already July which means it’s basically August and it feels like tomorrow we will be officially welcoming our students back to our campuses. While I know we cannot slow down time, I. Continue Reading →

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Roompact

JULY 15, 2024

This is what you’ve been waiting for: getting connected with your staff and welcoming students as they make their way back to campus. When you consider the performance of your team, it will be helpful to view their. Continue Reading →

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 11, 2017

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. This limits opportunities to pick up new ideas for enhancing teaching and learning through seeing others ‘in action’, or to receive constructive feedback on your own teaching. How to do it?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 27, 2017

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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 26, 2020

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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I am enthusiastic about promoting staff development and learning within the NHS and plan to utilise the knowledge and skills gained through participation in the MSc Clinical Education to cultivate this. Who has time to go through this stuff? Get this box ticked for your boss and that’s another year sorted.

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Roompact

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Maybe Im stuck in my own social media bubble, but it feels like theres been a huge resurgence in journaling as a hobby within the last few years. Everywhere I look, I see people using journaling as a way to set and track goals, capture lifes memories, and even collect the random scraps and stickers. Continue Reading →

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Encouraging meaningful student and staff engagement with the curriculum, including through co-creation of learning, teaching, and assessment. University-wide curriculum transformation and making the Edinburgh Student Vision a reality, and effectively communicating this work to students and staff.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

Now, they’re cutting staff Developing talent isn’t just about technical skills. The context Conversations with people on campuses across the country, where experimentation and innovation are happening real-time, reveals broad ways to think about the shortage and some promising techniques for finding and retaining talent.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 23, 2023

Just like sparqs’ own tool for mapping student engagement in institutional structures , it is important that student reps speak not only to the staff they work most closely with but also connect the views of students they represent with the activity of senior students’ association officers. Image credit: www.sparqs.ac.uk

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Although it’s only week 2 of the new academic year, we’ve received quite a few profiles from students and I know lots of staff members have had more enthusiastic students than usual approach them for a friendly chat about what they do. Pen their profile: Name, MBChB job title, brief light hearted bio and top tip. (75 75 word maximum bio) 4.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Encouraging meaningful student and staff engagement with the curriculum, including through co-creation of learning, teaching, and assessment. University-wide curriculum transformation and making the Edinburgh Student Vision a reality, and effectively communicating this work to students and staff.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Encouraging students to draw their own mind maps in a class or tutorial, followed by discussion among other students, helps them to see connections in developing an understanding. Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

They consider the ways in which the School understands this, detailing how its courses are already implementing reflectivity at various levels of learning and teaching, from course material to assessment to professional development. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Reflective Learning.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

She provides pedagogical advice and develops innovative approaches for CPD resources, MOOCs, and online MSc programmes. Great course, based on scientific facts, not on ideology, I loved it!”- Her research interests include, e-professionalism, digital education, and research ethics.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This coming year includes the following priority areas, which are very similar to last years’: Community, wellbeing and supporting transitions Supporting staff and students to collaboratively develop and enhance resilient communities across years, across degree formats, and across the University overall.

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Watch the on-demand webinar to hear EAB experts have a lively discussion of how to navigate the hype around AI and figure out what it means for your staff, constituents, and institution. You’ve no doubt heard about generative AI and tools like ChatGPT , but what exactly are they, and how can they help your advancement strategy?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While such a licence is incredibly helpful, it has its limits. In addition to the CLA licence, it is possible for teachers to use literature that was published Open Access, under a Creative Commons licence or that is out of copyright.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

It is important to have clear lines of communication and any issues that arise need to be sensitively and carefully managed by either the Programme Director or a Student Development Officer, leaving the academic supervisor free to focus on supporting the student intellectually. Patiently build relationships.

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Roompact

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The end of the semester is typically a pivotal time for a Residence Life staff. December is upon us and you made it to the end of the line with your team. This is often when transitions happen with team members, students and full-timers alike. And even if there arent staffing changes on your team, Continue Reading →

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 9, 2020

Looking at the literature, it became apparent that there were examples of team work amongst teaching staff in the sciences but very little in the humanities. In a recent Practice Worth Sharing meeting, we considered the need and place for team work on our courses and programmes. Who is it for? Why do we do it? Do we really need it?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2024

All tutors need an annual review, but the review of a large number of tutors would far exceed time we can take from academic staff. I’m extremely grateful to the Institute for Academic Development for their support for the School of Mathematics local EdTA scheme. The induction The unknown is scary, or it can be.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

If you’re considering integrating a podcast element into your syllabus, Emily and Andrew suggest that it is well-worth taking the time to reflect on what exactly you’re hoping the podcast will achieve. Is it a supplementary podcast – one that supports particular weeks of the syllabus in some unique way?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

If you’re considering integrating a podcast element into your syllabus, Emily and Andrew suggest that it is well-worth taking the time to reflect on what exactly you’re hoping the podcast will achieve. Is it a supplementary podcast – one that supports particular weeks of the syllabus in some unique way?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme offers funding and encouragement for staff and students to “ explore new practice and innovations in teaching” This is a safe, supported space, which welcomes attempts at innovation, whatever the outcome may be. Happy reading…! References Goodchild van Hilten, L. Elsevier Connect.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As academics, we all know the feeling when we’re asked to take on something else that will compete for our time. We also know how easy it is for things to fall towards, or even off, the bottom of our to-do lists. So, why did I choose to take part in the Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA), and was it worth it? Spoiler: Yes.)

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Image credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich, pexels, CC0 In this post, Anna Wood at the School of Mathematics introduces the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures, a classroom observation tool she co-developed to support reflections on teaching. Might detailed data on teaching, and its collection and analysis, be a useful response to this?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Encouraging students to draw their own mind maps in a class or tutorial, followed by discussion among other students, helps them to see connections in developing an understanding. Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

However, we felt some of the current eLearning models did not quite reflect all the elements identified in the review, and it would be beneficial to develop a new theory that captured this 21 st century mode of learning. LITERATURE REVIEW After doing some preliminary searches, we realised there was quite a lot published on the topic.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Carlos Muza, CC0 In this post, Rebecca Collins, a third year Mathematics and Statistics student, introduces a guide for staff on using learning analytics, created during an Employ.ed The main reasons staff gave me for this are as follows: They have never heard of learning analytics or been shown how to use them.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Since then, apart from her research commitments, she has been the coordinator of the virtual centre, and an active member of the development team for the Nitrogen MOOCs. This MOOC is the Hungarian version of the online course “Nitrogen: A Global Challenge” created at the School of GeoSciences under the lead of Prof.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 10, 2019

Our students and staff have been fantastic at contributing engaging pieces of writing covering everything from teaching, research and events to campaigning. Five years later, it serves the same purpose – as a community blog. We encourage everyone to send in contributions to keep the blog interesting and diverse.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 15, 2020

it’s just an executable that goes on Teaching Office staff computers, preparing and processing the PDFs at each of the points in the process you were going to be running anyway. Sure, sometimes we worry about adding up the score wrong because it makes a permanent record for all to see that we are, in fact, humans, and not machines.

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