Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this post, Julia Lisa, a graduate of the MSc in Environmental Sustainability, tells us how participating in the workshop that investigated the “who”, “what”, “where”, and “how” of learning and teaching at the School of Geosciences inspired her to lead her own research project on undergraduate students’ participation in the University’s Nature (..)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The facilitating researchers, Cecile Menard and Minkyung Kwon, cultivated a collaborative environment between students and staff to answer these questions. This photo also represents the student-led meetings that we had to conduct weekly to complete a massive research project. What does learning look like to you?

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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 Communities

AUGUST 1, 2018

Dr Cathy Bovill talks about her CoDI show on student engagement… How many engaged students does it take to change a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb is obsolete when the students question accepted forms of lighting and co-create new more sustainable ways of living. Why do unicorns and engaged students differ?…

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this episode , Dr Emily O’Reilly and alumnus Andrew Strankman from the School of Biomedical Sciences discuss their fantastic research project on podcasting in education, funded by the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme. What do students think about podcasts? What are the kinds of podcasts that we currently have on offer?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this episode , Dr Emily O’Reilly and alumnus Andrew Strankman from the School of Biomedical Sciences discuss their fantastic research project on podcasting in education, funded by the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme. What do students think about podcasts? What are the kinds of podcasts that we currently have on offer?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

180) have created a “ladder of student participation in curriculum design” that shows how student engagement in the curriculum can range from no engagement within a dictated, staff-controlled curriculum to significant levels of student engagement with student control of the curriculum (see below).

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The IAD has a range of resources to support doctoral researchers including, courses, networks, funding, career management, and advice and support. You might also be interested in the QAA event ‘Student Engagement in Postgraduate Research Provision’ on 23 March 2016.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this episode, Dr Emily O’Reilly and alumnus Andrew Strankman from the School of Biomedical Sciences discuss their fantastic research project on podcasting in education, funded by the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 6, 2023

Over two days in June, the Institute for Academic Development hosted the sixth annual Learning and Teaching Conference , ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice’ The first day was in-person and live-streamed, and the second was fully online. Jul 6, 2023

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In this issue, we will be publishing examples of when a teaching innovation or change in practice has been introduced, piloted, or researched, and it hasn’t turned out as expected. Why it’s time to publish research “failures”. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is the second in a two-part conversation facilitated by Teaching Matters’ Eric Berger, which allows Emily and Andrew to consider the ‘whys, whats, and hows’ of podcasting through the lens of their PTAS-funded research project on educational podcasts.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is the second in a two-part conversation facilitated by Teaching Matters’ Eric Berger, which allows Emily and Andrew to consider the ‘whys, whats, and hows’ of podcasting through the lens of their PTAS-funded research project on educational podcasts.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 13, 2021

Students’ nominations really do mean the world to teaching and support staff, as Dee Isaacs from Edinburgh College of Art told us. How can students submit a nomination? All students – whether Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught or Postgraduate Research, on-campus or online, studying full or part-time – can nominate.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, markmags, CC0 Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters, which showcases findings from recent projects that research learning and teaching practices at the University of Edinburgh. Rather, it is a way for them to make sense of their own teaching and their students’ learning, drawing on the principles of research.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 2, 2022

Students have a unique perspective to foresee how climate change will be most relevant to them, which we should use to guide progress in sustainable education through active communication. Recently the growing sensitivity of young people to climate change has been a key consideration communicated by students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is a unique opportunity for researchers to bring controversial, contentious, and dangerous ideas to the Edinburgh Fringe , and for members of the public to engage with world class academics from all over the country outside of their ivory towers. Dr Cathy Bovill who focusses on student engagement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 26, 2020

Our experience and research into online teaching leads us to conclude that it can be an enormously enjoyable and effective strategy for learning and teaching. Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. References Aitken, G., and Loads, D.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They can also be a useful resource for researchers looking to better understand the relationship between teaching practices and learning. These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 2, 2019

Go Abroad Staff is one fantastic scheme offered to University staff, which funds and supports travel abroad. Staff can either spend time training, or sharing and shadowing teaching, research and learning practices, with colleagues outside of the UK. Apr 2, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!) Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance? Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Below, you can watch a short video, which advertises the MOOC: As the name of the funding virtual centre suggests, NEWS India-UK is a cooperation between British and Indian research institutes and universities. Because one of the members of the original MOOC development team, Dr. Andi Móring, is from Hungary.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 10, 2019

Our students and staff have been fantastic at contributing engaging pieces of writing covering everything from teaching, research and events to campaigning. Nursing Graduate, Zoe Horseman, is now a Research Assistant and District Nurse. Five years later, it serves the same purpose – as a community blog.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In addition, the group is responsible for monitoring the research work funded by the Lecture Recording Programme as part of PTAS. The team is using a “research through design” approach, working with students both as learners and as researchers. Oct 31, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 8, 2019

The Students’ Association Liberation Campaigns have been leading these conversations for years, and have sometimes been met with huge criticism. Research shows that there is a national BME attainment gap; that marginalised groups experience a “leaky pipeline” at different levels throughout University.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 23, 2019

However, we all found our supervisors supportive which was very significant in developing our research skills in our topic area. We also loved the peer support from the postgraduate nursing students in particular as well as other doctoral students in the whole school.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 23, 2017

Educational Researcher 27(2), 4-13. Carey (1993) Teacher Roles and Technology Integration:, Computers in the Schools, 9:2-3, 105-118, DOI: 10.1300/J025v09n02_10 Sfard, A. On two metaphors for learning and the dangers of choosing just one.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Her role in IAD gives her the opportunity to advise and support colleagues as they develop their digital teaching practices. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is currently undertaking a part-time PhD in educational research with a focus on hybrid teaching. Sep 23, 2021

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Learn and Echo 360 are just two of the main areas that have built-in analytics tools for staff to use, holding a huge amount of data at a course and individual student level. This summer, I have interned in the School of Health in Social Science to research learning analytics and find out how it can be useful to the School.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Benefits of using open access resources in teaching There are many reasons engaging with OA content is beneficial across all aspects of higher education. Open access publishing is a key way for professionals to engage with valuable research and theory.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

Sarah was keen to co-lead the review to gain some research experience during her undergraduate studies. She also assisted during the analysis process to ensure the results were relevant to the student community. She was involved at each stage, from searching and screening studies, to undertaking quality assessment and extracting data.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

At Edinburgh, the rollout of lecture recording is more than just a technical implementation; it is an educational research and development initiative in which staff and students are working together to realise the benefits of lecture recording and explore new and exciting uses via the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Imagine, for a moment, the demanding life of a dental academic like myself, or any academic for that matter: you’re expected to be a skilled clinician, a mentor, a teacher, a researcher, and a leader – all at once. This constant pressure to excel in multiple areas fuels the need for emotional management, often at a significant cost.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 6, 2020

Three of these posts featured in the 2018 top ten , while the other seven were published this year… Teaching Matters in 2019 Teaching Matters readership has continued to grow steadily throughout 2019; the October issue (research-led teaching and learning) attracted over 10,000 hits. Top Ten of 2019 10. Jan 6, 2020

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 9, 2019

These communities are essential grounds to fertilise collaborative research projects, seed good practice, and harvest innovative ideas. One solution is Go Abroad Staff , which provides Erasmus+ funding for academic and professional services staff to teach or train in Europe and beyond.

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