Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 27, 2025

Each post delves deeply into unique methods that effectively address today’s educational challenges, enriching student engagement and empowerment. She has been working at The University of Edinburgh for the past six years, teaching mostly undergraduate students.

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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Holiday Food Drive Have your students organize a food drive to collect non-perishable items and deliver them to local food banks or shelters to support families in need. Students engage in every step from planning and promoting to collecting and delivering donations in this service-learning project ideas.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Photo credit: Flickr, Muffet, CC0 In this post, a visiting Research Fellow from Australia, Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, explores the question: is scaling-up of student-staff partnership initiatives necessarily a good approach?… Research shows that partnership initiatives are often small-scale.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 30, 2025

This approach not only enhances student engagement and understanding but also aligns perfectly with the modern educational need for flexibility and self-directed learning. This post belongs to the Jan-March Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Engaging and Empowering Learning Engaging and Empowering Learning with Technology.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Podcast New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises Episode 152. They also offer advice to community college leaders on ways to make measurable improvements in student retention and enrollment. EAB · New Student Engagement Data Reveal Surprises Transcript [music] 0:00:13.0 May 23, 2023.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 26, 2016

Speed dating session The final piece of course work for the students on the BEd PE Programme is the ‘Investigation’. This is a student-led research project that culminates in a student-organised conference, where they share their findings with each other and members of the profession. It gave our academic work meaning.”

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Complete concentration from participants at Shirley’s Personalised Mending workshop. I gave a lecture in the Textile Museum on my design practice, which is described as Making Modern Day Family Heirlooms , and my research, which for the past 20 years has been focussed on how to be a commercial sustainable textile designer.

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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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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Role of Deans in Fostering Innovation in Higher Education: Strategies for Enhancing Teaching and Student Engagement editor Fri, 10/04/2024 - 04:43 Hello Deans, you are crucial in determining how education will develop in the future because you are the designers of your higher ed’s academic vision.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. The focus groups had revealed students felt emails were “often long-winded and full of academic jargon that make them hard to read,” Whittington-Studer shares.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

How can students add value or benefit from participating in curriculum design? These are questions that were raised in a workshop exploring student co-design of an undergraduate course. Before the workshop, we were asked to find a photo that illustrated the answer to that question for ourselves. Yes, you, dear reader).

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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 Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The University Chancellor, The HRH Princess Royal, talks to students at the workshop about blogging for Teaching Matters. This month, I am delighted to announce Teaching Matters’ focused intention to authentically engage students into conversations about learning and teaching across the University.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The students reported several key areas, including evidencing research, wording and layout of the rubric. Next, we moved on to the student-led project. We asked alumni for their blue-sky thoughts on what the syllabus of a student-led project could possibly look like.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Photo courtesy of Elisa Cardamone In this post, PhD students, Elisa Cardemone, David Vaca Benavides, Godrey Wanok, and Emilie McSwiggan, who are part of the Advanced Care Research Centre Academy (ACRC), discuss how they developed a successful leadership project from receiving a Student Partnership Agreement grant. Who are we?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 17, 2023

This PTAS funded collaborative project also suggests strategies that can help improve student participation and engagement. Cathy is indebted to her colleagues and co-researchers, who all contributed an enormous amount: Cathy Holden and Camilla Green ( ELE ), and Joan Cutting, Seongsook Choi and Alice Shan ( MHSES ).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image Credit: Graphic Design by Joe Arton, Originals McKensie Wiebe and Brian Suh on Unsplash Welcome to February’s theme of Teach Matters: Students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. In February, Teaching Matters will focus on students and staff co-creating learning and teaching. Engström, A. & & Schnaas, U.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Recognising this as a team of five postgraduate research students (PGR) representatives, we organised intellectually stimulating events focusing on the academic, social and wellbeing development of our diverse PGR learning community. Her research involves the child and adolescent development and mental health across cultures.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

These inspiring examples brought to mind an ARU project entitled Seeing Myself, which saw students from diverse backgrounds co-create a series of workshops, short films and motivational talks by ARU alumni, facilitated by Karen Sturt, Student Engagement Manager in the Faculty of Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

These inspiring examples brought to mind an ARU project entitled Seeing Myself, which saw students from diverse backgrounds co-create a series of workshops, short films and motivational talks by ARU alumni, facilitated by Karen Sturt, Student Engagement Manager in the Faculty of Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Photo credit: India Trek students Recently, Dr Winston Kwon wrote about a student engagement initiative , which involved two dozen students from multiple disciplines trekking across India. Based on this trip, I have now begun pursuing research into cotton production for my dissertation. Nov 15, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Coding Club brings together undergraduate students, recent alumni, PhD students and researchers from the University of Edinburgh for weekly peer-led workshops to deliver a meaningful and motivational learning experience.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 5, 2024

This has been proved right according to the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Professional Preparation Career counselors provide workshops on résumé writing, interview coaching, and job search tactics to help students be ready for the workforce.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

From her own experience as a student, Candela knew how useful this training could be to other students preparing to carry out a research project for the first time. Drawing on her own student experiences, Candela began developing the materials for the project which were structured around the dissertation journey.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In this extra post, Colette Revadillo, David Geddes, and Anya Tan showcase APEX 7, an upcoming student-led medical research expedition to Bolivia that seeks to advance the field of high-altitude medicine. What makes APEX truly exceptional is its commitment to student leadership. But what if we could go beyond this?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. Ankita Chattopadhyay is a recent graduate with an MSc by Research (MScR) in Infection Medicine (Biomedical Sciences). Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Students have produced videos, lesson plans, information boards, leaflets, board games, websites, smartphone apps, community dinners, workshops and more. Project deliverables can have a long and sustained impact as clients will use the materials students have created for years to come.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The role of the lecture in these courses is complementary to that of the workshop, which is the other form of teaching we use. Workshops feature small group working (typically five to six students), largely paced by the students themselves, and with staff and teaching assistants on hand to help. Oct 3, 2016

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 21, 2024

Inma teaches on the MSc Intermediality programme and has consistently gone above and beyond for her students academically and personally. Inma took time to guide her students through Intermediality, a topic that many were new to and found complex due to the variety of mediums the course covered.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 24, 2022

Our students are upskilled in project design through workshops spanning educational media, design and engagement (e.g. Through these workshops, students and staff from different disciplines and Schools across the University work together, leading to cross-fertilisation of ideas and cultures.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

There is support from the Education Department in Edinburgh City Council, who support the orientation workshops for our students. They act as liaison between university and schools to create the school placements, as well as paying for our students to apply for Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) membership by Disclosure Scotland.

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Study Aborad Association

MAY 9, 2019

Studying abroad has been shown to give students invaluable learning opportunities that aren’t available in a traditional classroom setting. The study also showed that student learning outcomes were unique compared to the classroom. Student engagement is important and helps build a community for travelers at the school.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As a registered nurse and academic, I’m passionate about improving people’s lives and health through education and research. As an educator, I constantly explore innovative approaches to make learning meaningful and relevant for students, practitioners and staff alike. The workshop was refined for this new aim (see Figure 3).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 5, 2017

Fourteen students attended the all-day workshop and were guided through multiple steps to create their own board game. Since February 2016 we have run an additional full-day workshop with the postgraduate Design Informatics students, two half-day workshops, and a one-hour challenge for staff.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In Higher Education, check-ins are “more important than ever” ( insidehighered.com ) not only to keep students engaged with the curriculum, but to “gauge people’s well-being and see how they’re doing” (ibid). Subsequently, the energy in the room increased, and students appeared engaged and ready to work, play and learn together.

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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. A series of facilitated workshops is being planned to help academic colleagues and students to work together to consider how to make best use of lecture recording for both teaching and learning.

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