Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I am enthusiastic about promoting staff development and learning within the NHS and plan to utilise the knowledge and skills gained through participation in the MSc Clinical Education to cultivate this.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Encouraging meaningful student and staff engagement with the curriculum, including through co-creation of learning, teaching, and assessment. University-wide curriculum transformation and making the Edinburgh Student Vision a reality, and effectively communicating this work to students and staff.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Although it’s only week 2 of the new academic year, we’ve received quite a few profiles from students and I know lots of staff members have had more enthusiastic students than usual approach them for a friendly chat about what they do.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

Now, they’re cutting staff Developing talent isn’t just about technical skills. More from UB : Protests hurt these campuses’ reputation. John Shenette, formerly at Wake Forest and now with CSL Consulting, notes that more and more, the critical talent isn’t technical, it is the capability to work in an educational environment.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 26, 2020

Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. Despite all its challenges, now is a great time to dive in to online teaching and (dare we say) bend a few rules and taken for granted assumptions. References Aitken, G., and Loads, D. and Jones, D.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 23, 2023

Simon Varwell Simon Varwell is Senior Development Consultant at sparqs , Scotland’s national agency for student engagement, where he leads on institutional support and staff development.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Encouraging meaningful student and staff engagement with the curriculum, including through co-creation of learning, teaching, and assessment. University-wide curriculum transformation and making the Edinburgh Student Vision a reality, and effectively communicating this work to students and staff.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Encouraging meaningful student and staff engagement with learning and teaching. University-wide curriculum transformation and making the Edinburgh Student Vision a reality, and effectively communicating this work to students and staff.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

She provides pedagogical advice and develops innovative approaches for CPD resources, MOOCs, and online MSc programmes. Her research interests include, e-professionalism, digital education, and research ethics.

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Roompact

JULY 15, 2024

With the arrival of August come preparations for the fall semester and the excitement of staff training. This is what you’ve been waiting for: getting connected with your staff and welcoming students as they make their way back to campus. When you consider the performance of your team, it will be helpful to view their.

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Roompact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The feeling of newness is starting to wear off, students are starting to test limits with policy and misbehave in a variety of ways, and your staff is moving past their seemingly fake smiles and are starting to lose their. September is often when it feels like ResLife professionals are in the thick of it. Continue Reading →

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Roompact

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Maybe Im stuck in my own social media bubble, but it feels like theres been a huge resurgence in journaling as a hobby within the last few years. Everywhere I look, I see people using journaling as a way to set and track goals, capture lifes memories, and even collect the random scraps and stickers. Continue Reading →

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this extra post, Lynsey encourages us to pause and critically reflect on how we engage with our routine e-learning modules with an engaging fire safety example.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A final point to acknowledge is that, as individuals, everyone’s ‘reflective capacity’ differs and that includes staff as well as students! This surfaces, for example, when reviewing submissions for HEA fellowship applications – so as always, our curriculum evolution will need to be supported by aligned staff development opportunities.

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Roompact

JULY 24, 2024

Soooo…if anyone knows how to slow down time, now would be the time for you to utilize those talents. I mean it is already July which means it’s basically August and it feels like tomorrow we will be officially welcoming our students back to our campuses. While I know we cannot slow down time, I. Continue Reading →

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Roompact

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Gratitude is a powerful force in the workplace and, with the culture of Residence Life, is a point of emphasis when it comes to team dynamics. We’re constantly looking to affirm those who go above and beyond, recognizing their efforts and contributions to our team, department, and to the profession as a whole. It’s fitting.

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Roompact

JUNE 26, 2024

Ahhh summer…where have you been all of my professional life? I always love when colleagues from around campus see me and ask, is this your down time? Do you ever really get a summer break? I usually just nervously scoff and say yeah I guess June is our “down time” but who am I kidding? Continue Reading →

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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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Roompact

JULY 21, 2023

Resident Assistants (RAs) play a crucial role in fostering a supportive and inclusive community within university residence halls. Understanding the dynamics and relationships among residents is essential for creating a positive living environment. A floor sociogram is a powerful tool that can help RAs gain valuable insights into these dynamics.

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Roompact

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Whether you’re looking to advance your higher ed career, transition to a role outside of higher education entirely, or just looking to gain some new skills for your current role, it’s important to utilize the professional development resources at your disposal. While I personally believe that pro devo funding should be a thing of the.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Image Credit: Pixabay In this post, Dr Noel Entwistle introduces crucial insights gathered from his research into student learning dynamics at The University of Edinburgh.

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Roompact

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For those who work in residence life, supporting our student staff requires both structure and adaptability. Sometimes it feels like balancing logic with intuition—understanding policies while reading the unique personalities on our team. You’ve likely heard of Marvel’s newest hit TV series; Agatha All Along.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2024

In this extra post, Dr David Quinn, Lecturer in the School of Mathematics, shares his experience of supporting tutors and demonstrators, from informal support like peer support, to more formal routes such as peer observation and the courses offered by Institute for Academic Development: Introduction to Academic Practice (IntroAP) or the Edinburgh Teaching (..)

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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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Roompact

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The end of the semester is typically a pivotal time for a Residence Life staff. December is upon us and you made it to the end of the line with your team. This is often when transitions happen with team members, students and full-timers alike. And even if there arent staffing changes on your team, Continue Reading →

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Even though AI cannot substitute for subject-matter expertise, it can make your existing experts more productive and help staff develop new areas of expertise. ChatGPT and other AIs can drastically reduce the amount of time that it takes even highly expert staff to perform core tasks.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this post, alumna Yval Koch talks about the moment she realised that her learning process didn’t apply to all learners, which motivated her to reflect on how to create inclusive learning environments as she ponders pursuing a career in academic teaching.

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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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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Mollie McFarlane (speaking) and Rob Williams (seated) from NHS medical physics, who spoke about the NHS medical physics training scheme. Image credit: author.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 24, 2019

Campbell (LTW), Susan Greig (LTW) and Daphne Loads (IAD) explains how you can use blogging to develop your professional profile and contribute to professional accreditation… I’ve been blogging for many years now and it’s hard to overestimate the importance of my blog in supporting my career and my professional practice.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 18, 2019

University of Edinburgh’s Access Programme photo In this post, Kathryn Redpath, Director of Learning and Teaching for the Centre for Open Learning, describes how a School-wide CPD programme, and enhanced communication channels, are helping the Centre develop a sense of academic community… The Centre for Open Learning (COL) offers a rich and diverse (..)

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 24, 2019

The Teaching Matters podcast accompanies and complements the Teaching Matters blog, adding another space for students and staff to have conversations and debates around learning and teaching at the University of Edinburgh. Students and staff are invited to engage in topical conversations, which are recorded and edited as podcast episodes.

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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 Academic Communities

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, qimono, CC0 In this new ‘ Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing ‘, Teaching Matters will be sharing blog posts based on a new initiative that invites colleagues to attend lunchtime sessions aimed at promoting discussion and sharing information on teaching related practice.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Umberto, CC0 In this article, Eugen Stoica, Scholarly Communications Officer, explains the relationship between Copyright – Creative Commons licences – Open Access, and why these are important for teaching and education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 9, 2020

Photo credit: Dylan Gillis, Unsplash, CC0 In this Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing post, Morag Crolla, a Teaching Fellow in the Moray House School of Education and Sport , reflects on what team building means for her and her colleagues….

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 4, 2020

Photo credit: Bruno Cervera, Unsplash CC0 In this Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing post, Katie Cebula, Paul Kelly, and Deborah Holt, from the Moray House School of Education and Sport, share discussions and approaches that emerged from the ‘Practice Worth Sharing’ Forum on how to foster online, community-building during the Covid-19 (..)

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