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. To explore cotton manufacture from production through to retail.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Additionally, the Edinburgh Innovations Student Enterprise Team plays a crucial role in nurturing entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset among students. Through workshops, 1-2-1 business, and funding opportunities, this team helps students turn innovative ideas into viable business ventures.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

Moreover, students engage with the ‘real word’ and solve ‘real problems’ compared to artificial ones posed by a lecturer. When applying for a job, I won’t talk about an essay, or multiple choice tests where I got 90+%; I will talk about the time I developed and taught workshops on emotional resilience to at-risk youth.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Chris provides an example of how, on one of his courses, they include a workshop on assessment literacy for the students, using the HEA Engaging with Feedback Toolkit. However, he argues just doing one workshop is not enough… 4. Here, the emphasis is placed not on the delivery but on the reception of feedback.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 17, 2017

Not only does it offer the opportunity for our student staff to step back and identify the skills they would like to improve, but it also allows them to choose from several workshops, such as communication and influencing skills, prioritising and time management, leadership styles and public speaking.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

November 2016’s project ‘Graphic Design in a Box’ brought final year Graphic Design students together with university careers advisers, experts in widening participation, and recent graduates, for an intensive, three-week sprint taking ECA out of the College and into the classroom to introduce high school learners to creative careers pathways.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Drawing on her own student experiences, Candela began developing the materials for the project which were structured around the dissertation journey. Workshops were run in Spring and Autumn 2019, and Candela delivered training to around 100 attendees.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

I also now appreciate the importance of students engaging in thinking about their future careers as early as possible. Whilst there was clearly a role for me in supporting the students through that process, where the project came into its own from a careers perspective was in the follow-up workshop I did with the students.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 13, 2023

These details might go unnoticed by most people, but are as important as the major tasks like planning the talks and workshops for the conference.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

A sub-set of 8 students have also successfully taken this a step further and, under staff mentorship, have achieved Associate Fellowship of the HEA. Activities include outreach workshops with local schools, like Liberton High School, to foster the link with young people aspiring to enter higher education.

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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. To explore cotton manufacture from production through to retail.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Career Outcomes The transition to the workforce or further education is an essential aspect of student success. Tracking students' employment rates, job placement, salary levels, and acceptance into graduate programs can provide insights into their preparedness for their chosen career paths.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

The Making Transitions Personal (MTP) Pre-arrival and Start-of-year Reviews is an initiative that aims to support this through a set of targeted reflective questions given to students before the start of the academic year.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Credit: unsplash, @priscilladupreez, CC0 An additional assignment involved working in collaboration with the Carbon Trust , auditing the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in order to calculate their carbon footprint, as well as identifying energy efficiencies and detailing cost saving measures.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

All students taking the course complete a short, persuasive briefing paper, which is shared with the department and with relevant operations colleagues. In the final week of the course, a half-day workshop is arranged where student groups present their research and recommendations.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Lauren Krueger Veterinary Medical Education Certificate undergraduate student One strand of the Certificate involves the opportunity for veterinary students to become involved in outreach workshops and school visits to foster the link with young people aspiring to enter Higher Education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

This was a community engagement project called Resilient Borders , which focused on cultural, ecological and socio-economic particulars of the location. Galashiels community engagement workshop. Photo credit: Resilient Borders.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 9, 2020

To date, 19 student projects have been uploaded to open.ed, some receiving four or five star reviews from the public, such as the earth’s material course , lessons on the adaptation and extinction of woolly mammoths , or the workshop ‘Introduction to the brain’ The Geoscience Outreach students are fortunate because Charlie Farley (..)

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 7, 2017

What Next: Postgraduate support There has been an increasing demand over the last year for academic peer learning provision focused on postgraduate students, both taught and research. There are already a number of models developing informally from study skills workshops around dissertations to one to one academic mentoring.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Reimagine the Student Experience Central to the transformation is a deep understanding of the new generation of learners — what they seek from their education and how they envision their university experience.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As universities are under an increasing level of regulation and accountability in relation to student success and retention, we see commitments towards partnership working as a form of best practice (see: Office for Students Student Engagement Strategy ).

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