Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

In this extra post, Louise and Laura provide an overview of the course sharing the benefits and challenges of developing MOOCs. Dr Louise Connelly is a Lecturer in Academic Development, and Laura Wardrop is the CPD Manager for the Easter Bush Campus. Apr 22, 2024

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The IAD has a range of resources to support doctoral researchers including, courses, networks, funding, career management, and advice and support. You might also be interested in the QAA event ‘Student Engagement in Postgraduate Research Provision’ on 23 March 2016.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Think about how you will sensitively manage responses to student queries even when they arrive out-of-hours. Our experience and research into online teaching leads us to conclude that it can be an enormously enjoyable and effective strategy for learning and teaching. Remain flexible. References Aitken, G., and Loads, D. and Jones, D.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We have continued to keep an eye on new research being published in the sector in addition to commissioning and funding lecture recording research at the University through our Engagement and Evaluation group (much of it already covered in this mini-series). That’s okay.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Below, you can watch a short video, which advertises the MOOC: As the name of the funding virtual centre suggests, NEWS India-UK is a cooperation between British and Indian research institutes and universities. Because one of the members of the original MOOC development team, Dr. Andi Móring, is from Hungary.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill. Handbook of distance education (3rd ed., New York, NY: Routledge.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash CC0 In this ‘Spotlight on remote teaching’ post, Yi-Shan Tsai, research associate at the School of Informatics, talks about the advantages and challenges of blended learning design and what questions to consider when adopting this approach. The course begins on 11 May on FutureLearn.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

Nina herself (along with Hazel Christie, from IAD) has researched the use of blogs in teaching and learning as part of a PTAS grant and has recorded a podcast episode for our mini-series (released today). Nina and Hazel are also working on re-usable assessment marking criteria to help staff assess blogs. Look out for it!

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

By definition, this course only has small numbers of students on it with required attendance at monthly sessions (including reflection, stress and time management, and learning and study skills) followed by a short reflective exercise on which they get prompt individualised feedback. What next for reflection?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 9, 2019

These communities are essential grounds to fertilise collaborative research projects, seed good practice, and harvest innovative ideas. One solution is Go Abroad Staff , which provides Erasmus+ funding for academic and professional services staff to teach or train in Europe and beyond.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 17, 2019

Their discussion is based on their recent PTAS research , which explores how assessed blogs are being used across the University. In this episode, they chat about the use of blogs as a form of assessment with regards to marking criteria, course design, staff investment, technological limitations, writing style, and digital footprint.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In its 2017 report, the Babson Survey Research Group looked at online education in the United States and reported the following: Seventy-one percent of the 4,717 U.S. Project-based learning A growing trend in online learning, this approach allows students to research, present and share their ideas to demonstrate real-world skills.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 13, 2021

Students’ nominations really do mean the world to teaching and support staff, as Dee Isaacs from Edinburgh College of Art told us. All students – whether Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught or Postgraduate Research, on-campus or online, studying full or part-time – can nominate. How can students submit a nomination? Jan 13, 2021

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Expectations of PGWT Postgraduates who teach should consider: seeking out opportunities for development and support, both within their organisational unit and within the wider institution.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image credit: The Reflection Toolkit , The University of Edinburgh In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond. You can reach us at Gavin.McCabe@ed.ac.uk.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 6, 2023

Over two days in June, the Institute for Academic Development hosted the sixth annual Learning and Teaching Conference , ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice’ The first day was in-person and live-streamed, and the second was fully online.

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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. Nursing Graduate, Zoe Horseman, is now a Research Assistant and District Nurse. Five years later, it serves the same purpose – as a community blog.

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Users and researchers (including ChatGPT’s creators) are only just beginning to understand its full range of capabilities. Even though AI cannot substitute for subject-matter expertise, it can make your existing experts more productive and help staff develop new areas of expertise. Where do you collect data for your system?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Manage relationships during the placement A typical placement might involve four people: the student, an academic supervisor at the University, a supervisor at the host organisation, and somebody at the University who handles any non-academic issues that arise on the placement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Research has shown that anxiety associated with learning maths on these mostly humanities/social science-based degrees may not be uncommon (Macheski et al, 2006; Brush, 1978). Essentially, we want our students to be part of the club where they can challenge established research. So what can we do about this? Oct 30, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 4, 2019

She manages the Student Support Services’ annual review process. Working mainly in the postgraduate research policy area, Susan is also responsible for Postgraduate Programme Reviews – the University’s internal quality assurance process for PGR programmes.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This course was developed through the collaboration of Learning, Teaching, and Web (Stuart Nicol and Andres Ordorica), the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Michael Gallagher), and external consultant Sheila MacNeill. Handbook of distance education (3rd ed., New York, NY: Routledge.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

Research Excellence Framework 2021. The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. More are promised after the Future Research Assessment Programme (FRAP) consultation reports. by Ian McNay. Four are fitted on to one page.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 24, 2019

Reading candidates’ blog posts is always a pleasure as they are informal and engaging, but also supported with references to relevant reading and research. Blogging to enhance your professional practice is also the topic of Episode 5 of the Teaching Matters podcast (released later today). Lorna Campbell Lorna M.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 27, 2020

This work extends that view and suggests that online supervision of research projects can also be viewed in this way. Derek’s academic interests are in research methodology and pain education. Gill Aitken Gill Aitken is the Programme Director of the MSc in Clinical Education, Edinburgh Medical School. Apr 27, 2020

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This should help them manage the forum. Her role in IAD gives her the opportunity to advise and support colleagues as they develop their digital teaching practices. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is currently undertaking a part-time PhD in educational research with a focus on hybrid teaching.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!) Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance? Look out for a Student Wellbeing Teaching Matters mini-series in July and August 2019.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The large scale rollout of the technology to our centrally managed teaching rooms has been designed to provide support to as many courses as possible. If you are interested in learning more about the research and evaluation work we are doing, please contact Jill Mackay. You can find out more about Media Hopper Replay here.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2019

Nichola Kett Nichola Kett is Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services, where she oversees the implementation and management of the quality framework and manages the quality assurance and enhancement team. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the European Quality Assurance Forum. Aug 15, 2019

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MARCH 6, 2019

This included individual reflective writing, writing for public audiences, group writing, showcasing project/research work, and multi-modal blogging. Her background is in the design, management and support for academic IT services, particularly those used to support teaching and learning activities online.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The Learn site currently contains seven folders: solutions to common problems; academic skills; getting the most of your assessment and feedback; tools to support learning and research; student support and the PT system; a careers roadmap; and information on peer support.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Drumm McNaughton discusses the misconceptions and essential roles these institutions have in their communities with Executive Director Dr. Andrew Koricich of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, a research collaborative and resource hub that has completed the insurmountable task of defining what rural-serving institutions are.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Beyond the “Service Smile” Behind the carefully crafted smiles, the reassuring words, and the meticulously managed demeanour lies a silent toll, a heavy burden we carry. As sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild (1983) famously coined it, emotional labour is the invisible work of managing our emotions to meet the demands of our job.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Open access is a mechanism by which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive, the result being an adaptable copyright-management regime, benefiting both copyright owners and licensees. Suber, 2008 ).

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