Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

To meet PGRs’ academic needs, we organised discussion-based workshops to reach both quantitative and qualitative researchers. We also held a methodology-based seminar – the grounded theory workshop – run by Dr Ethel Quayle (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology) and Dr Susanne Kean (Lecturer in Nursing Studies).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Up until before the COVID19 pandemic, the Student Enterprise Team’s focus was on providing extra-curricular support. This included one-to-one meetings with a business adviser, competitions, workshops and accelerator programmes. She supports provision of the best training, workshops and education for founders and innovators.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Because I spent so much time in higher education, and since then continue to be so closely linked, I can quickly understand the surrounding context when they are talking about students, employers, alumni, events… it’s like we can speak in shorthand and get right to the point more quickly.

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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 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. Students at the workshop.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Creative problem solving, risk taking, lateral thinking, communication, project management, amongst the many core design skills this student employed in order to fulfil this unique ‘task’. We wanted everyone to feel like they could be a designer even if they didn’t or couldn’t draw.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 31, 2023

After brainstorming a range of approaches and activity ideas for the intervention, we selected three activities to trial at a workshop with 16 students. Building on the insights from these focus groups, we entered the ideation and intervention development phase of the project. One of the activities was a dilemma-based exercise.

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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 Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

How on earth do 140 students deliver repeated presentations and receive useful feedback in twenty hours? Each two-hour workshop was attended by 60-80 students, in a large teaching studio. The logistics were intricate, if not nerve-wracking.

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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 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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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 27, 2017

An epitome of skill application was in an Engineering workshop; we were instructed to research in groups and present the findings both on paper and visually. Relating Inside and Outside Class… The possibility of connecting the ‘dots’ of experiences within the University’s environment fascinates me.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

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. Supporting project-based learning initiatives and placing more responsibility on students will create more employable graduates.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

A full set of resources have been developed to support staff and students to undertake SLICCs from foundation, through undergraduate and into postgraduate study (SCQF levels 7 to 11), in both groups. Alternatively, the learning experience may be a project that produces a substantial report or output (e.g.

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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 Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Rather than these being ‘add-ons’, or buried in the expected learning objectives, they are explicitly taught through a weekly lecture and small group skills workshop. The students learn about the skill and are then given the space and guidance (again, by my team of outstanding teaching assistants) to apply and practice it.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 21, 2019

It supported students to build confidence in their skills and future careers. To put a framework around this, we have introduced an Edinburgh Award and held workshops on professional behaviours, networking and resilience to support students to make the most of their experiences.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

She designs and delivers training for researchers across career stages ranging from 1:1 support to online resources and workshops. Anna Pilz Dr Anna Pilz (she/her) is an Academic Developer and Trainer in the Institute for Academic Development at Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 30, 2017

The programme consists of a series of optional, themed workshops which have been devised to support teaching and are open to all students and staff with current teaching roles within Informatics, including teaching assistants, tutors, demonstrators, coursework or examination markers.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The trek saw us touring the factories of TechnoCraft Industries, a leading innovator in cotton production, taking part in print-making workshops and Q&A sessions at House of Anita Dongre, a fashion brand dedicated to sustainable growth, as well as exploring the sights, eateries, and nightlife that the city had to offer.

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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 Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

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 Experiential Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Most final-year PhD students can probably identify with needing a break from thesis writing. The desire for a break motivated me to sign up for Edinburgh Local GRADschool, an annually occurring three-day workshop for PhD candidates in the last eighteen months of their studies.

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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 Student Employment

MAY 21, 2019

It supported students to build confidence in their skills and future careers. To put a framework around this, we have introduced an Edinburgh Award and held workshops on professional behaviours, networking and resilience to support students to make the most of their experiences.

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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

Galashiels community engagement workshop. Last year, students turned their vision to a campus building, redesigning 7 Bristo Square for future learning, climate (adaptation) and sustainability to 2030 in a project called Building Futures. 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

APRIL 22, 2020

For example, each year, one school addresses the large portion of their students concerned about career planning by organising the Careers Consultant for that school and running a workshop for students on that topic.

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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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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

The trek saw us touring the factories of TechnoCraft Industries, a leading innovator in cotton production, taking part in print-making workshops and Q&A sessions at House of Anita Dongre, a fashion brand dedicated to sustainable growth, as well as exploring the sights, eateries, and nightlife that the city had to offer.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

It provides a level of assurance to students, employers, and other stakeholders that the institution meets certain standards for quality and effectiveness. Improved curriculum and teaching quality Access to resources and networking opportunities including conferences, workshops, and research opportunities.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Institutions aim to support timely degree completion to minimize costs, ensure efficient resource utilization, and facilitate students' entry into the workforce or further educational pursuits. Career Outcomes The transition to the workforce or further education is an essential aspect of student success.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 27, 2023

Providing professional development opportunities: The IACBE offers a variety of professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, including webinars, conferences, and workshops. Changing expectations of stakeholders: Accreditation is becoming more important to stakeholders, including students, employers, and government agencies.

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