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Mini-series: Student subtitling project to improve accessibility of online media materials

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Photo credit: Pixabay, stockphoto, CC0 In this post, Professor Tina Harrison and Anne Marie-Scott write about the recent media subtitling pilot at The University of Edinburgh, and discuss the many benefits for students… At Edinburgh, we are working to improve the accessibility of our digital content for the benefit of all our audiences.

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Building bridges: Connecting minds in the global mental health community

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Initially, this involved building a web/blog page where students and alumni could share their experiences, dissertation research, connected projects and events, etc. Augmenting the online resource were social media channels including LinkedIn and Discord.

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BadgEd: Introducing digital badges

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Tracey Madden is a learning technology advisor and Delia Georgescu works with the Digital Learning, Applications and Media team at The University of Edinburgh. In this extra post, Tracey and Delia highlight BadgEd↗️, a new open digital badge service at the university. If so, you’ve […]

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BadgEd: Introducing digital badges

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Tracey Madden is a learning technology advisor and Delia Georgescu works with the Digital Learning, Applications and Media team at The University of Edinburgh. In this extra post, Tracey and Delia highlight BadgEd , a new open digital badge service at the university. Are you looking to reward learning that has previously gone unrecognised?

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Welcome to the May issue of Teaching Matters: Employability and Graduate Attributes

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Remember, you can also submit details about your event and we can advertise it on Teaching Matters.

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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Future Teaching Matters themes include: Tutoring and demonstrating – April 2017 PhD experience – May 2017 Assessment and Feedback – June 2017 If you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media on any upcoming themes or any teaching-related subject, let us know. Mar 1, 2017

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Future Teaching Matters themes will include: Teaching beyond the programme – February 2017 Peer teaching – March 2017 Tutoring and demonstrating – April 2017 If you have an idea or story related to these themes and you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media let us know.