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Building a teaching and learning community at the Centre for Open Learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

However, while there is a great range of quality teaching practices within subject areas and programmes, and there are some excellent examples of embedding professional development for teaching within these, COL – the result of several mergers – has lacked a sense of shared, ‘whole school’ identity.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Teaching online in unusual times

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Asking all of your students to research a simple point relevant to your course and to share their answers in a Learn discussion board to create a big pool of ideas; Short recordings of you and a colleague discussing a key topic; Short overview videos to guide students, using Kaltura and Media Hopper.

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Over the years, we’ve developed expertise in how to use blogs to support learning and teaching , engage audiences with our work, build communities, and underpin professional development. But, until last October, it’s probably fair to say that our central support was lagging behind what our users needed.