Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Presentation practice! on Campus is a structured internship programme for undergraduate students in their 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year. At the end of my internship, I gave a presentation to other interns at the Employ.ed This summer I have had the pleasure and the privilege of taking part in the University’s Employ.ed

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MARCH 22, 2024

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. Enterprise development is not a spectator sport.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It is organised as a 20 credit elective course in year two, that spans both semesters to enable participating students to undertake a meaningful placement in a school, to initiate development of their own teaching skills in working with school pupils, and to develop and deliver a cultural learning experience in their school class placement.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 20, 2022

So too with students, whereby graduate attributes of networking, delegating, pitching, risk-taking were enhanced by the shared experience. Students also felt liberated to experiment with management roles, responsibilities, and presentation styles. More recently ,we have had online presentations and visual walk-throughs.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 16, 2019

The cohort of students is a mixture of both undergraduate and postgraduate, and includes students from a diverse range of academic backgrounds. This diversity has certainly contributed to productive group work and discussions, with students presenting and engaging with a range of different viewpoints.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

The students work on real research questions, using current state-of-the-art models and real data, to solve specific applied problems and feed into wider publishable research project. Our joint conference paper was subsequently also published in the Journal of British Interplanetary Society (JBIS). References Barrie, S.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

and includes a video of their presentation at McEwan Hall. This post summarises Ellen MacRae and Tara Gold’s keynote talk: What even is a University anyway?, Ellen was EUSA President 20/22, and Tara was EUSA Vice President Education 21/22. This post is part of the Hot Topic: Learning & Teaching Conference 2022.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

All students taking the course complete a short, persuasive briefing paper, which is shared with the department and with relevant operations colleagues. In the final week of the course, a half-day workshop is arranged where student groups present their research and recommendations.

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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. Dec 20, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

However, is there a challenge presented by the modular structure of programmes? Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide. Developing graduate attributes should be stated in programmes’ learning outcomes.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity. The Award was piloted in 2011-12 and the beginning of our work on the Edinburgh Award was prompted in part by the development of Higher Education Achievement Reports (HEARs).

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 25, 2023

Additionally, 80% of students found CBCS beneficial for developing essential employability skills. These statistics and studies highlight CBCS's positive impact on enhancing educational quality by fostering student engagement, skills development, interdisciplinary learning, and aligning educational outcomes with industry needs.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

When given the freedom to design their own learning, these students certainly didn’t take the easy option. Instead, they pushed the boundaries of how far their learning could take them and gained as much from the mistakes along the way as the presentation of the final product. Students leading their learning is nothing new.

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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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

I also now appreciate the importance of students engaging in thinking about their future careers as early as possible. This led me to reflect on my previous teaching experience: how often had I asked students to really reflect on their learning and on the range of skills and experiences it provided?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

University of Edinburgh’s Playfair Library, Old College Later in the evening, Dr Sarah Ivory (course organiser) presented awards to students who had greatly contributed to the poster project. Each of these students was called up on the stage, and had their honorary moment.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2019

They work on a hot topic, they get additional presentation training, and their work culminates with a presentation at the organisations’ offices. Those who end up working on the projects usually enjoy it; we regularly hear it’s the best experience they have in their four university years.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

program , which saw us developing a course prototype delivered in the form of a website , a Learn page, and a final presentation. Delivering: Designing a website, Learn page and final presentation to communicate findings from the consultations, brainstorming sessions and prototypes for the course.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

a PhD student may have the thought “I’m not smart enough”, and not put themselves forward to teach, write for publication, or present at conferences). We also invited Dr Karen Goodall (Lecturer in Clinical Psychology) to provide a workshop around self-regulation in PhD students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

As each student progresses through the role of Design Agency intern, junior, senior, and director, their level of responsibility and workload increases. Each encounter of this spiral curriculum is assessed through reflective documentation often using diaries, blogs, films and pecha-kucha style presentations.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This approach brings a number of other educational benefits and challenges, for example: Students are motivated by having to engage with the ‘real world’ and present their ideas to outside stakeholders. Students have more direct access to the messiness of the problem though the external stakeholders.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We invite former alumni too, bringing together various generations of students, to share questions and experiences. In term 2, we host an event called “What happens after your masters?” , where alumni come back to do short presentations on the paths they have taken, the challenges they have overcome, and what they have used from the degree.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

We were continuously put into teams and made to present in different styles on various topics ranging from climate change impact assessment to the proposal of new sustainable business solutions. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the course’s learning approaches are far from traditional, containing many vocational and practical elements.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Offering choice presents a series of challenges and opportunities to the curriculum developer. For example, how do we work with the professional community to support the 850+ students that are undertaking the Bachelor of Medicine programme at any one time?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 8, 2018

These changes have irreversibly altered the demand for skills, which are crucial to translating creativity, curiousity and innovation into employment and economic growth.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 18, 2019

Josephine rose to this challenge and, following a short period of information gathering, she proposed and partially organised a yearlong programme of Let’s Gather events for students and staff. These events included monthly coffee and cake (with the wonderful Artisan Roast), Therapets, yoga and academic presentations.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 11, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, dtavres, CC0 In this post, PhD student, Liv Coombes, presents a podcast initiative, which she developed with fellow student, Elliott Gruzin, to build an online community of listeners for anyone interested in philosophy and pop culture… My PhD research involves the philosophy of time travel, looking at how traditional theories (..)

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As universities are under an increasing level of regulation and accountability in relation to student success and retention, we see commitments towards partnership working as a form of best practice (see: Office for Students Student Engagement Strategy ).

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