Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 1, 2018

Dr Cathy Bovill talks about her CoDI show on student engagement… How many engaged students does it take to change a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb is obsolete when the students question accepted forms of lighting and co-create new more sustainable ways of living. Why do unicorns and engaged students differ?…

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And many more… 2025/25 Student Partnership Agreement Funding It is also an opportune time to raise awareness of the new call for funding for 2024-25. Encouraging meaningful student and staff engagement with the curriculum, including through co-creation of learning, teaching, and assessment.

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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 Communities

APRIL 25, 2019

Building online communities can help with student engagement and satisfaction (Lui et al, 2007). Online students can feel a sense of isolation, and a well-designed online course can help overcome this by designing activities and opportunities for them to participate in and contribute to online communities.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 26, 2020

Instead, think about what you are trying to achieve, what tools and resources are available, and how you can get students to engage with them as simply as possible. If a task was difficult for you to set up, there is probably a good chance it will be difficult for students to complete. Non-engagement is not a disciplinary issue.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a student participant, I chose a photo (image 1) from one of my master’s modules. To me, it represents student participation and student-led learning. This photo also represents the student-led meetings that we had to conduct weekly to complete a massive research project. A link to the film will be available soon).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Some of these came from research into curriculum design, ways of teaching, and the learning experiences of students. I thought it might be useful to bring together a set of ideas couched mainly in everyday language, looking at teaching and student learning and influences on them.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Dr Catherine Bovill is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement, and Celeste McLaughlin is Head of Academic Development for Digital Education, and are both based at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD). For some this meant re-thinking the purpose of the 50 minute lecture and exploring asynchronous alternatives.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2017

Additionally, I held consultations with a number of undergraduates who provided feedback on their learning experience in history and were encouraged to nominate staff who they felt had been good tutors, had provided particularly helpful feedback for assessments, and were effective lecturers.

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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.

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MARCH 2, 2022

Senior leaders must wholeheartedly support progress in top-level decisions, and stakeholders from all aspects of society can also support this change, for example, employers in the type of apprenticeships they offer, and community led organisations by collaborating in the development of ‘place based’ green curricula.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In chasing these questions, Emily and Andrew are engaged in the evergreen issue of student engagement, particularly in online education where virtual fatigue and silent drop-outs can be high. Your goal is to share your knowledge and what [sparked] your passion to those students to make them interested in material.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In chasing these questions, Emily and Andrew are engaged in the evergreen issue of student engagement, particularly in online education where virtual fatigue and silent drop-outs can be high. Your goal is to share your knowledge and what [sparked] your passion to those students to make them interested in material.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This was a timely published blog post as it coincided with the launch of the Centre for Experiential Learning – an online hub for pulling together best practice across the university, and supporting the development of new tools and frameworks for experiential learning. This blog post is important to me for two reasons. Dec 20, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2019

COL teaching colleagues and students engage in an enormous range of types of teaching and learning practices every day. Dr Hazel Christie, from the Institute for Academic Development, spoke about the benefits of peer observation, and we had two COL colleagues, Phil Davies and John Gordon, speak about their positive experiences also.

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MAY 8, 2019

These elements contribute to creating a more holistic understanding of how marginalised students experience University. So it is essential to acknowledge that discrimination, both direct and unconscious, does occur, and can have a serious impact on staff and students belonging to marginalised groups.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

Integrating and embedding the SDGs more formally into university curricula will build on the existing knowledge base that many students leave school with, and allow them to develop this further, applying it to their degree programmes in novel and innovative ways.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I planned to have a maximum of 10 fashion students, who I expected to have some basic stitching skills. Workshop: ‘Personalised Mending’ For the workshop, I had bought along excess Ayrshire wool blanket material from my studio, embroidery hoops, large darning needles and templates.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

Having worked for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas these past two months as an intern, focussing on marketing and promotion, I feel I’ve gained an insight into how important it is to learn to reach different audiences to encourage them to engage with research coming from the university. Dr Cathy Bovill who focusses on student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Rather, it is a way for them to make sense of their own teaching and their students’ learning, drawing on the principles of research. Financial awards of up to £15,000 help participants to develop research skills and build communities of staff and students with an interest in enhancing teaching and learning.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2019

Face-to-face spaces, where students and staff could meet to chat and share experiences or concerns, seemed to be determined by where they could find a place that had a socket to plug in a kettle. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. Apr 2, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2017

Additionally, I held consultations with a number of undergraduates who provided feedback on their learning experience in history and were encouraged to nominate staff who they felt had been good tutors, had provided particularly helpful feedback for assessments, and were effective lecturers.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

A group of students were trained to provide on the spot support to lecturers new to recording and signpost to other sources of support to ensure the smooth running of the service with the focus firmly on making it as easy as possible for academic colleagues to use Media Hopper Replay. But the crux of my supportive argument is my second point.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

Is it a guest lecture podcast, or a student-led podcast? Yeah, just have a go at it… I think that as the project has demonstrated, the students really enjoy them, you know, they’re making a big impact in terms of student satisfaction on programs that were involved in. I don’t know what I’m doing.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

Is it a guest lecture podcast, or a student-led podcast? Yeah, just have a go at it… I think that as the project has demonstrated, the students really enjoy them, you know, they’re making a big impact in terms of student satisfaction on programs that were involved in. I don’t know what I’m doing.

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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 Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

We kept coming back to the fact that mobile devices now facilitate students to access information anywhere, anytime, and allows them to learn in new ways not possible in previous generations (O’Connor & Andrews, 2018). She also assisted during the analysis process to ensure the results were relevant to the student community.

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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. I wanted to share my experience with other students because I felt it had been such a good learning opportunity.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At the conference, one of the session was about questions , and the reasons for students being reluctant to ask questions during lectures, including not wanting to lose face or get negative reactions. Also discussed was judging when to approach students and how to ask open questions.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 As part of its ambitious Vision 2025 strategy, the University of Edinburgh is committed to provide all students with an international experience. UoE Students: You can apply for NICE here and INCiTE here !

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Peer interactions within discussions can motivate students by giving them an opportunity to share ideas about the topic, which leads to deeper learning and critical thinking. Informal conversations help build community It can be useful to provide opportunities for students to have informal conversations.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Characterising lectures We helped to develop FILL+, a tool for characterising lectures by recording the activities that take place as seen from the student’s perspective. It builds on the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures (FILL) developed by Wood et al. That is, 95.6% This figure increases to 97.1%

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This led to us revising what we offered by developing toolkits in content that would have previously been “taught” to staff and rethinking how we offered courses. Personal Development includes assertiveness, personal effectiveness and presentation skills.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 23, 2019

She told us that the School and course organiser found it valuable to be recognised by the students in this nomination. I remember when we talked about how we enjoyed the Global Health Nursing course by Dr Fiona Cuthill and I nominated it as the ‘Best Course’ in the EUSA teaching awards.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Open access and open education both stress the importance of making knowledge available for individuals around the world, regardless of wealth or status ( Elder 2020 ). Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. You can search this to find OA repositories relevant to your field.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The group’s primary function is to establish and oversee the implementation of a strategy for the effective evaluation of the benefits realised by the implementation of lecture recording and the sharing of these results. In addition, the group is responsible for monitoring the research work funded by the Lecture Recording Programme as part of PTAS.

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