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“It’s a Wonderful Workshop”: innovative tutor training for the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Teaching on the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice is primarily conducted in the practical, hands-on learning environment of a workshop (anything from 1 ¼ to 3 hours long), led by a tutor who is most likely to be a practising solicitor.

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Skilful collaboration: Students and staff developing skill-based training in Clinical and Health Psychology

Teaching Matters Student Employment

This year we have begun a new collaboration between the Institute of Academic Development (IAD) and Clinical and Health Psychology; working closely together we have developed and delivered skill-based training workshops for students on the MSc Psychology of Mental Health (conversion) programme.

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Why should students have a say?

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

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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Taking a little bit of Scotland to Shanghai: Reflections on a research and teaching visit to Donghua University

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Complete concentration from participants at Shirley’s Personalised Mending workshop. After the lecture, I facilitated a workshop, Personalised Mending , also in the Textile Museum. As the workshop would be held in the museum, I imagined it to be a quiet and controlled experience. Staff and students working together.

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Why should students have a say?

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

These are questions that were raised in a workshop exploring student co-design of an undergraduate course. Within this workshop at The University of Edinburgh in May 2023, we investigated the “who”, “what”, “where”, and “how” of learning and teaching for GeoSciences. What does learning look like to you? Yes, you, dear reader).

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Learning Technology Induction Pack

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As well as facilitating ELDeR (Edinburgh Learning Design Roadmap) workshops, she provides support for those incorporating learning technology into their teaching. Before joining Edinburgh, Tracey held appointments in UK higher and further education, supporting curriculum design and staff development, including the use of learning technology.

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How I learn is(n't) how you learn

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

This is a question that I have come back to time and time again, after a teaching and learning workshop I took part in last May. A workshop focused on those exact questions – something I hadn’t thought about at all and simply wasn’t much concerned about. We read, we write, we learn… simple, right?