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Getting to Know You – Finding out who’s who in the Edinburgh Medical School

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Nevertheless, for undergraduate students, small class sizes in a large university can still mean that there’s lots of staff they don’t know, and sometimes it’s hard to feel part of a community. Developing a strong sense of community is something that is really important to us in the medical school.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Staff new to online teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The paper is entitled “Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: Implications for academic staff development”, and you can find it in the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice. Mar 27, 2020

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Mini-series: Engaging with lecture recording: Learning from each other

Teaching Matters Online Learning

That is the question being addressed by a team from the Medical School in this PTAS project. The Engagement and Evaluation Group is committed to overcoming barriers to support staff and students and identify what works well, in which contexts, and for whom.

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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The next meeting is in May 2017 and will be looking at opportunities for staff development such as the Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Academic Practice (PgCAP) and peer observation.

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes. Medical Teacher, 29, 297-300 Catriona Bell Dr Catriona Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Education. J Med Educ, 58, 457 – 461. Siddiqui, Z. Jonas-Dwyer, D. &

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Top ten tips for teaching online

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. Gill Aitken Gill Aitken is the Programme Director of the MSc in Clinical Education, at the Edinburgh Medical School. References Aitken, G., and Loads, D. and Jones, D.

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A network to support PhD students and engage staff members across imaging physics disciplines

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Mollie McFarlane (speaking) and Rob Williams (seated) from NHS medical physics, who spoke about the NHS medical physics training scheme. Image credit: author.

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