Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2023

For example, a student who spends 4 hours every Saturday for four years shelving books at the local library performs an important service to the community. But exploring the world’s libraries is really where we can find the repository of human intellectual inquiry. Do summer programs look good on a college application?

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AIFS Abroad

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If we break the word down, we can understand that the concept is a combination of books and therapy — and it actually dates back to Ancient Greece when libraries were seen as sacred places of answers and healing. I found this class to be one of my favorites as we explored bookstores and libraries. Sounds pretty great, right?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Faculty and other guests will host weekly Homestead seminar sessions for discussions relevant to the Homestead. Cabin Bob also boasts a Homestead library, with books related to Homesteaders’ lives and interests as well as a study space, adding another academic dimension to the living-learning community.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Students look at a bound manuscript volume during a seminar. Francesca Baseby Fran Baseby is CRC Services Manager, based at the Centre for Research Collections on the 6th floor of the Main Library. Staff and students are encouraged to get in touch if they would like to learn more about OBL opportunities at the CRC.

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Academic Librarian

MARCH 24, 2016

[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. Except for a year when I exiled myself from academia, I either taught writing or worked in a writing center from then until the end of 1999 when I finished library school.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She decided the format would be to run a number of seminar-style sessions, to encourage interaction and discussion between students, many of whom may not yet have an idea of what their project might be. Workshops were run in Spring and Autumn 2019, and Candela delivered training to around 100 attendees.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 24, 2023

You can get access to my free resource library by opting in to receive text alerts! One random afternoon we went to the library and in the grass was a group of kids surrounding a calf. She taught a seminar on Hawaiian geology to the students taking the trip, and more. She baked or cooked every single day for years.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 28, 2020

After honing their writing and analysis skills through taught courses, they can finally immerse themselves in a research project of their choice, working closely with an expert supervisor and spending hours reading in the library. It turns out many of our students still, by dissertation stage, don’t understand how to access library resources.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Global Challenges for Business Poster Presentation Award Night in the Playfair Library, Dr Sarah Ivory with winning students. I teach these in two weekly lectures, and my team of experienced teaching assistants lead a 2-hour small group topic seminar discussion (no slides!). Photo credit: Eoin Carey.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But now, instead of meeting at the library like most students did before the pandemic, students can collaborate on group chats and email each other the material. First-year orientations and seminars do no good because it won’t change the culture of cheating in colleges. Quite frankly, this is a misguided attempt to control cheating.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Spaces aren’t (in most cases) designed by the educators teaching in them, but looking at the formal learning setting (lab, lecture theatre, seminar room, etc) through a critical lens can help educators begin to think about what they might want to achieve in that space. Sometimes in deep conversation and some shy and yet eager to belong.

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Higher Ed Connects: Ethics

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Gary Pavela, a past-President of the International Center for Academic Integrity and co-founder of the Academic Integrity Seminar, believes that the concept of an honor code is more relevant today than ever. Some schools, such as Washington and Lee, take this a step further and allow students to take exams in the library or even off campus.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2020

On-line project seminars in the Urban Conservation course’s Virtual Classroom are complemented with socially-distanced class site-visits using tour guide audio equipment. National Library of Scotland Reference number: 3703. [ [link] accessed 18 Nov 2020] Webb, Michael. A Local Alternative to Field Courses”. Teaching Matters (blog).

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Buddy4Study

JUNE 19, 2021

In Australia, there are three formats for doing your master’s: Coursework-based Master’s or Taught Master’s Degree : These kinds of MS degrees include a series of taught modules that are delivered through lectures, practical and work seminars. They have the oldest academic libraries of the continent which boasts of having around 3.6

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2023

You’re driving their own academic achievement and academic attainment through these online seminars every fortnight, every two weeks. The first thing is identifying these students from backgrounds who would not normally attend college, and you’re doing more than just saying, “Come to Cambridge. We’ll take care of you here.”

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