Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 27, 2025

In the fourth series on the theme ‘Engaging and Empowering learning’, I am thrilled to present insights from innovative educators captured in five intriguing blog posts. Each post delves deeply into unique methods that effectively address today’s educational challenges, enriching student engagement and empowerment.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We offer up to 6 spaces within each cohort, and the students selected are ones who show a keen interest in working in Higher Education in the future. As well as their Peer Assisted Learning activities, the students attend and present at staff educational journal clubs.

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Experiential Learning Depot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Inquiry-based learning questions are the heart of a classroom that thrives on curiosity, critical thinking, and student engagement. As educators, understanding how to effectively guide students from teacher-led inquiry to fully student-driven exploration is essential in fostering deep, meaningful learning.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 24, 2022

Through these workshops, students and staff from different disciplines and Schools across the University work together, leading to cross-fertilisation of ideas and cultures. Our assessment involves tasks that resemble workplace settings yet equip students with skills for their future professional life. How is the course assessed?

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

The survey aimed to gather insights on various aspects of academic life such as advising, navigating academic paths, accessing and engaging with course materials, as well as identifying obstacles and potential factors that contribute to their success. The findings are graphically presented in the graph below.

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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

Many educators consider HBS-style case studies the gold standard for helping students develop analytical business skills. With this AI-based model, I can offer case studies with dynamic multimedia presentations centered on high-quality videos. I believe that the case method is an integral part of teaching.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 4, 2023

This student also contacted a self-defense instructor to come into the school to teach her and her classmates self-defense strategies. This student didn't gather statistics and information from a few websites online, copy and paste them into a Powerpoint presentation and regurgitate the information from her slideshow to her classmates.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 12, 2018

Jano and Hanne thought that InfPALS could solve this problem by providing a space where students could work on these skills, but which could be resourced and run by Student Leaders rather than staff.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

Helping students develop these capacities and skills whilst at university will certainly give them a head start in their career. It’s the four or five “in the middle” who either have not thought about it or have not considered it as an option who are the ones that we are interested in engaging with to help them explore their potential.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 30, 2023

Latchiya is also the elected university-wide Postgraduate Taught Representative: As part of my role of being a Programme Representative, I have had the opportunity to constantly gather feedback from students and then work on the same by implementing changes with the help of our staff.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As the cultural marks left to us by generations before, we encourage our students to leave their mark by sharing stories with the world. We have collected 34 exciting stories where students engaged with local food, cultural events, historical places, sports activities, and nature sights.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 22, 2021

Original illustration by Georgia Smith, Edinburgh College of Art student In this post, Fiona McNeill walks us through the non-credit bearing course “Informatics Connect” that she and colleagues designed to help first-year students develop a sense of collegiality while studying online.

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Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

MARCH 15, 2019

While many guides are presented in a way that may cause readers greater confusion—much like the feeling of going down the rabbit’s hole—the intention of this CHEL guide is to place your assessment fears at ease and be more comfortable with the educational assessment. Pros Cons Requires students to demonstrate proficiency.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 14, 2023

In this post, Dr Donna Murray guides the academic community to think about moving our ongoing conversations from AI-assisted plagiarism detectors and the lack of trust in students to exploring what it means to equip students to belong to an academic culture. At present, it is a little hidden under ‘Help and Support’.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

However, what do they do when they look to develop students’ ‘mindsets’? What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Developing graduate attributes should be stated in programmes’ learning outcomes. However, is there a challenge presented by the modular structure of programmes?

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. In each session, the fellows gained depth in new topics or terrains, developed leadership skills, and built a network with peers from institutions across the country.

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