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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. Rosalyn Claase Ros is Head of Student Experience, having joined the Business School in November 2011 as the Careers Manager.

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

While I wouldn’t argue for employment outcomes as a simple proxy for teaching quality, I would argue that the learning and teaching experience of our students has the capacity to open up a world of career opportunities. The experience at Edinburgh can be truly transformational for our students.

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Development of graduate attributes in online distance learning students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

iStock [BrianAJackson] Several previous posts on Teaching Matters have focused on graduate attributes – the skills, abilities, attitudes and approaches that students develop “through meaningful experiences and the processes of learning and reflection” (from Definition: what are Graduate Attributes? ).

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How can our Graduate Attributes inform programme and course development? Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Employment

However, what do they do when they look to develop students’ ‘mindsets’? What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Perhaps the best is that our graduates are highly regarded and sought after by employers, and the continued successes of our alumni. communication, teamworking).

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Reflections of an Edinburgh Award tutor

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It has been wonderful to see students develop during their participation in the award, not all staff get to witness this change at such close quarters – almost in real time. The final element of this is most certainly reading their reflective essay submissions.

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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

ACJ demonstrates much greater reliability in large-volume assessment when using a distributed team of assessors and also enables high numbers of students to efficiently receive valuable feedback from several assessors, whether used for staff assessing students or student peer assessment.