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Enhancing the student learning experience via social media

Teaching Matters Online Learning

There are many types of platforms and social media tools with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube being some of the most widely used across all regions of the world. There are many types of platforms and social media tools with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube being some of the most widely used across all regions of the world.

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Why should students have a say?

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

With her background in film/television/theatre production, she endeavours to incorporate innovative media into sustainability initiatives. She also worked on Scotland’s National Parks community participation research for Scottish Government. Feb 1, 2024

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The Students’ Association Student-Led Teaching Awards 2022

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

When students submit a nomination, the Students’ Association email staff letting them know that they have been nominated, and share the nominator’s comments anonymously. After such a testing year, we want to celebrate all nominees for their achievements!

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The Students’ Association’s Students-Led Teaching Awards 2021: Nominations now open

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Once students submit a nomination, the Students’ Association email staff letting them know they have been nominated and sharing the nominator’s comments anonymously. Whether you’re a staff member, a student, or just passionate about great teaching we’d love for you to encourage students to submit their nominations.

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Mini-series: What are our students saying about lecture recording?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Media Hopper Replay student helpers This, the final post in our lecture recording mini-series , is devoted to the views and thoughts of our students – the recipients of lecture recordings. At Edinburgh, our ambition is to offer an outstanding student experience to as diverse a group of students as possible.

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Podcast: Climate optimism or fatalism: Teaching climate change in today’s university (Part 1 and 2)

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Teaching Matters podcast credits: Guest host: Polly Wells (School of GeoSciences) Director and Editor: Jenny Scoles and Sarah Thomas (IAD) Advisor: Meg McGrath (Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability) Producers: University of Edinburgh’s Communication and Marketing Media team. Feb 20, 2019

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

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

COL teaching colleagues and students engage in an enormous range of types of teaching and learning practices every day. It was appropriate that our first sharing practice event focused on Peer Observation, as a component of the COL CPD programme will be a Peer Observation Programme.