Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

Students develop their own set of personal and professional skills and attributes, and often use a blog to reflect on their progress. Simon did an excellent presentation as part of our blogging seminar series – and the recording is well worth a listen.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Large, diverse Schools like my own – Literatures, Languages and Cultures – also present their own set of unique challenges. Moreover, that information is not always presented in a particularly engaging way. Although there are many different answers, one thing is certain: there is no one size fits all approach.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The topics covered are split into two areas: Personal Development and Management. Personal Development includes assertiveness, personal effectiveness and presentation skills. The content can be accessed as and when people want it allowing staff to shape their own learning.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 7, 2019

Perhaps it is the increasing visibility of discourses around mental health, alongside the increasingly complex context of being a student that have increased both the numbers seeking support and altered the nature of the presenting distress.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I present the picture I have prepared. So now, as I sit in that much-beloved chair in the library, reading yet another article or preparing for yet another presentation, I look at the people around me and see students preparing flashcards, talking to their friends or quietly scribbling away in their notebooks.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 30, 2018

So my main argument is about how the subject can be positioned and the tone in which it is presented. Often, statistics is presented as a hard subject, one which needs lots of hard work, and if you do not do well, it can undermine your abilities as a student.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2019

There is an excellent opportunity to showcase this good practice by presenting at the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Scotland’s International Enhancement Themes conference, Beyond measure? Exploring what counts in higher education, on 3 and 4 June 2020, in Glasgow.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Recording could make lecturers more self-conscious about their appearance, or stop them from making certain jokes, changing how they wanted to present the material. This was often talked about in relation to the exams, which are an ever-present worry for many students. This fear manifested in two main ways.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

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. However, their resistance tends to be due to the following: Faculty lose control of the presentation of the materials. Program and course development.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 23, 2017

I am presently enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate for Academic Practice, and am writing a blog as part of the Designing Courses module. We were asked to read an article by Anna Sfard on acquisition and participation metaphors in learning, and consider how these apply to our own practice.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

At times, this can lead to operational silos, and present seemingly natural barriers which are difficult to overcome. The traditional subject area-based model of support can make a huge contribution to the sense of community for students, but it can also hamper effective communication and collaboration.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 17, 2022

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

She makes presentations at many university events, international conferences and was awarded the Best Presenter at the 2014 EUSA Internationalisation Conference. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 25, 2017

This presents some interesting challenges for me as Tutor Mentor in the Edinburgh Centre for Professional Legal Studies (ECPLS). How do we support our students in their transition from an academic LLB teaching environment?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 23, 2019

It clearly showed applicative value of the presented techniques. First, we used body height within my family to infer genetic values based on my own phenotype and phenotypes of my relatives. The example where I showed calculations for pedigree prediction of my daughter’s body height was very well received.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2019

This will hopefully not only improve the staff experience but also the student experience, as COL colleagues reflect on and share their practice, trying new things and making new connections.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Experiential education: Defining features for curriculum and pedagogy (23 August 2018) Dr Simon Beames, a senior lecturer in Outdoor Learning at Moray House School of Education, along with his colleagues, presents a theoretical framework of experiential education that is centred around six defining features.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As Astro Teller, head of the Moonshot Factory at X (Google), states in his TED talk, The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure , “we work hard at X to make it safe to fail” Although not quite on such a scale, the University offers it’s own version of a Moonshot Factory.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Assessment is through a reflective (private) blog and/or an oral presentation. These points are available for a range of activities, such as taking courses, writing a short account of your involvement in an event, or being nominated for a EUSA teaching award.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In this post, Dr Andi Móring, from the School of GeoSciences , presents the University’s first ever Hungarian MOOC… On 1 st of October, 2018 the first ever Hungarian MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was launched by the University of Edinburgh on the EdX platform. The main image of the Nitrogen MOOC – in Hungarian.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 6, 2017

My role also ensures that tutors have someone who can be consulted and who can arrange support around specific challenges that teaching presents. Our tutors have a rare opportunity to receive personal, specific, and detailed feedback on their teaching, and our undergraduates see that teaching is considered highly important by the School.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 29, 2019

This series was co-edited by members of t he Lecture Recording Programme , and was designed to provide a snapshot of lecture recording at Edinburgh, and present a range of perspectives and experiences. These four short episodes accompany the Lecture Recording mini-series , which Teaching Matters ran between October and December 2018.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this extra post, Professor Tina Harrison, Assistant Principal Academic Standards and Quality Assurance and Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption , and Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services , explain the importance of mid-course feedback for both staff (..)

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Elizabeth Jamieson, CC0 In this post, Dr Daniel Kenealy, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, presents his six top tips for organising student work placements One of my most challenging but rewarding tasks has been the development of around eighty ‘Capstone’ placements for postgraduate (..)

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It also aims to explore the potential of lecture recording to act as a catalyst for the transformation of learning and teaching, and promotes the presentation of such innovation within and beyond the University. In addition, the group is responsible for monitoring the research work funded by the Lecture Recording Programme as part of PTAS.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

Once again, the Edinburgh Fringe is upon us, and this month Teaching Matters is very excited to present blog post contributions from staff and students performing at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CoDI), as part of the Fringe. Welcome to the August issue of Teaching Matters!

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a psychology student explained: [The tutor] keeps my interest alive by presenting, not only the content, but also what matters for her. Experiences, personal understanding, knowledge – it’s all there. Teaching is about her relationship with the subject.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 25, 2019

Staff members were asked how they engaged students online, and they gave the following suggestions: Giving students a sense of ownership. The presentations and discussions during this event all highlighted the importance of academic communities for online learning. Encouraging collaboration through group activities.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JULY 31, 2023

In this blog post, I reflect on my academic journey at the University of Edinburgh, whilst presenting my poster , “Student nurses and academics’ experiences of ‘first ever’ international Virtual Clinical Elective (VCE)” at the 2023 NHS Education for Scotland (NES) conference.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 4, 2020

The ‘Practice Worth Sharing’ (PWS) forum in the Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES) aims to promote discussion and to share information about practice that has worked well for academic/professional services staff, as well as providing opportunities to take a ‘tricky issue’ for discussion.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Although students generally value being physically present to ‘do’ their studies, all students may have to miss lectures occasionally due to illness or timetable clashes. Some groups tend to experience additional challenges, such as the ones with parental responsibilities and diverse learning needs.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

RECOMMENDATIONS While the literature review was small, including only twelve studies, we felt that social media presented a new approach to learning not just in nursing but across all areas of higher education. We discussed theories that could support the findings of the review and help explain how students learn via social media.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This creation of a community at the school promotes more open conversation between staff and students, and has led to some unique collaboration. A hot topic right now is lecture recording , and an analysis of its use was presented at the conference.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As a result, staff time will not be wasted updating and publishing the same information in multiple locations reducing the risk of inconsistent information being presented to students. It will enhance the information available by improving and streamlining how we propose, maintain, and close courses and programmes.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

At times, this can lead to operational silos, and present seemingly natural barriers which are difficult to overcome. The traditional subject area-based model of support can make a huge contribution to the sense of community for students, but it can also hamper effective communication and collaboration.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 30, 2020

I had planned to incorporate a sustainability elective (3-5 hours a week) into this term’s face-to-face content, but the redesigning of the course allowed me to utilise an eBook called ‘ Develop EAP: A Sustainable Academic English Skills Course ’ for the Academic English ‘strand’ of the course.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Recording the lecture enables students to be more present and interact with the professor, rather than worrying about capturing everything being said. Debates can sometimes arise in lectures, which lecture slides may not cover, that could be invaluable in developing critical analysis.

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