Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Two of our AFHEA students from the 2018 cohort presented on their own approaches to teaching at the vet school’s Celebrating Teaching event (see picture below). Seeing the students develop in their understanding and experience in teaching over time has been both exciting and humbling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. He currently is also a graduate research assistant with the Center for Community College Student Engagement. After completing his Ph.D.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

Technology and writing centers, counseling services, and student health centers go unvisited (Medina & Posadas, 2012). Simple ways for faculty to increase student engagement with university services involve frequently and routinely advertising them and normalizing their use. Discussion Questions. institutions?

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Outcome Based Education (OBE) places students at the forefront, moving beyond traditional teaching to emphasize specific, measurable competencies. This emphasis on practical application transforms students into agile thinkers, ready to navigate the complexities of life with resilience and competence. What is outcome based education?

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Freedom to Grow We hope that using ungraded evaluation structures in a classroom might influence students’ sense of their own agency for learning, thereby deepening students’ engagement, sense of mastery, and autonomy. However, some students may still wish the class followed traditional grading practices. Klemenčič, M.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Image: At New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, the seven-year-old Vertically Integrated Projects program has grown from five teams to almost 50, involving hundreds of students each semester. It creates long-term development beyond the revolving door of academia. As the program has grown, so has its staff.

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University Business

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Student mental health on college campuses has taken a toll in the years after the pandemic, straining in-house counseling services and affecting student engagement. “When you layer upon what our students were returning to school with, it was a lot even as a professional to digest,” Haywood said.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 4, 2023

This student had choice in every aspect of the experience, and thus the experience was deep and meaningful. If you're interested in applying self-directed project-based learning to any capacity, check out my free mini-course all about getting ready for student-led PBL ! That is an example of self-directed project-based learning.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Blogs “Move-in melt” is on the rise: Why it’s happening and 3 strategies to fight it “Summer melt" is a familiar challenge for enrollment and student success teams across the country. Visa process, international students may not actually have the necessary paperwork to arrive when planned, despite their enrollment or deposit activity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Thank goodness, because after reading a recent Chronicle article about the so-called “wars” over math curriculum , it seems clear that engaging in a curriculum war is the worst possible outcome for all involved. Another reason was because my sincere intention was to write a text that served as an alternative to They Say/I Say.

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Experiential Learning Depot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Inquiry-based learning questions are the heart of a classroom that thrives on curiosity, critical thinking, and student engagement. As educators, understanding how to effectively guide students from teacher-led inquiry to fully student-driven exploration is essential in fostering deep, meaningful learning.

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ChatGPT is creating all kinds of buzz about students cheating on essays. I once defined cheating as “engaging in behaviors that are intended to facilitate passing without learning.” So it got me thinking. If I had had access to a tool like ChatGPT when I was in college, would I have used it to cheat? Absolutely.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“You’d think with all my research on the development of executive function and mental health and stress in emerging adulthood, I would have put together from the get-go that part of our job as faculty is to help students develop those skills.” “Both of those are OK.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 14, 2023

In this post, Dr Donna Murray guides the academic community to think about moving our ongoing conversations from AI-assisted plagiarism detectors and the lack of trust in students to exploring what it means to equip students to belong to an academic culture.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 23, 2024

Happy and contented students promote the institution positively, enhancing its standing before the public and drawing in new joiners. In short, it benefits crucial stakeholders in the campus including students, staff, and heads. By encouraging interaction, these areas help students develop a feeling of community.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Student success in higher education refers to students' achievement, growth, and overall well-being during their college or university experience. It includes academic performance, personal development, professional preparedness, and a sense of belonging.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 21, 2023

Promoting a Positive Campus Culture: Using Behavior Management in Higher Education editor Mon, 08/21/2023 - 03:15 In the dynamic realm of higher education, fostering a positive campus culture is not only desirable but essential for academic excellence and holistic student development.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 28, 2022

The University’s new assessment and feedback principles include ‘Our assessment and feedback practices will be reliable, robust and transparent’ – and, as is highlighted in the opening post in this series , students do not always consider it to be clear how their marks were awarded. Help students develop the ability to self-assess.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 21, 2024

Our Outstanding Course award recognises courses which introduced students to new topics and perspectives; were delivered in new or innovative ways; and helped students develop personally or professionally. With over 200 courses nominated, our student panel had a tough task to choose our winner.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

EUSA Teaching Awards 2024 In this blog Callum Paterson, Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator at the Students’ Association, turns the spotlight to the winners of the Students’ Association’s 2024 Teaching Awards for staff offering exceptional levels of support to students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

Many educators consider HBS-style case studies the gold standard for helping students develop analytical business skills. Alternatively, group case assignments, where students discuss their points of view and collaborate on a deliverable, are more engaging and reflective of real-world situations.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 15, 2022

Our aim is for students to be ‘affected’ by their education. That is, we want the students to feel things with their own hands, by making and creating new gadgets; to feel the emotions of what it really means being an engineer today, by proposing solutions to address global challenges such as social inequality and global warming.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 19, 2023

The natural language processing technology embedded in the chatbot enables it to not only understand the words but also the student's intent. Chatbots can assess students' knowledge and skills, create customized learning paths, and provide instant feedback and support, improving student engagement and motivation.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And I'm thrilled to introduce Dr. Heather Speed, who serves vice president of Student Services at Pueblo Community College. So that was a big group of students that we identified and were able to create a campaign for it and go after. What could we do, what kind of variables could we look at to appeal to those students?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

However, it is important to call out the particular capacities that differentiate and give students an edge, whether that leads to greater resilience of the individual or helps them to maximise their potential in the career they choose.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 12, 2018

There are a lot of skills we are expected to have mastered that are never explicitly taught, and we both felt that providing a resource to allow second year students to work on those specific skills would really help ease their transition into honours next year. The ‘skills’ Hanne mentions relate to software programming.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Some courses in the School of Social and Political Sciences adopt this model, such as SPS Research in Practice, and Contemporary Issues in Sociology, and many others combine elements of it where students can pursue some of their own ideas in class. This is not an approach guaranteed to produce students willing to fly without a parachute.

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University Business

AUGUST 10, 2023

Higher education’s youngest student cohort was anywhere from 14 to 16 years old when the pandemic paused regular life. Now, only three years removed from its disruption, some first-year students may still be struggling to cover ground academically and psychologically. The post Support for first-year students may be key this fall.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image credit: Zohra O’Doherty: End of Academic Year Lunch at SPS for Access/Adult Returner Student In this post, Zohra O’Doherty spotlights a Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) funded collaborative project that offers additional support and outreach to mature students who are most often at risk of feeling lonely and isolated at the University.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The core mission of “Access Culture” was simple yet profound: to celebrate and nurture cultural awareness among the online student community, thereby fostering a more inclusive and harmonious environment and sense of belonging. The initiative helped students and staff to get to know each other better and connect in a more meaningful way.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Coding Club initiative is trying to instill confidence in student learners at the University of Edinburgh so that they can become the teachers of tomorrow.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2024

Go into meetings with an open mind and engage with students’ ideas from a place of possibility, rather than immediately focusing on potential alternatives or pitfalls. Coaches and mentors establish a dynamic and empathetic mentoring relationship by prioritizing the development of emotional intelligence. – Lesley Kelly 2.

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 27, 2024

The Role of Academic Advising Software from Freshman Year to Graduation editor Tue, 05/28/2024 - 02:33 Before entering their sophomore year of college, up to 30% of students drop out, according to statistics. Makes use of technology and data analytics to improve student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 22, 2021

Original illustration by Georgia Smith, Edinburgh College of Art student In this post, Fiona McNeill walks us through the non-credit bearing course “Informatics Connect” that she and colleagues designed to help first-year students develop a sense of collegiality while studying online.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 30, 2023

Therefore, it is important that staff and students establish meaningful contact and engage purposefully on issues of mutual interest. Within academic circles, that relationship is much more than a catalyst which facilitates and enhances the interaction between two important stakeholders in academia.

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Clark Nesxen

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Department of Education, students who focused on career and technical education (CTE) during high school had higher annual median earnings eight years after graduation than students who did not. That compelling statistic foretells the importance of CTE experiences and the valuable skill sets these programs help students develop.

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