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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies.

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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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Your marketing team knows AI is the new jackpot. What hinders its growth?

University Business

UPCEA and EducationDynamics believe institutional leaders can encourage adoption by offering staff development and training and establishing guidelines for integrating AI in higher education ethically. Only about 20% said their institution is collecting information about how they use the technology. What hinders its growth?

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Learning Technology Induction Pack

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Before joining Edinburgh, Tracey held appointments in UK higher and further education, supporting curriculum design and staff development, including the use of learning technology. As part of the UK Physical Sciences Centre, she worked on national projects in such areas as OERs (open educational resources) and e-portfolios.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Staff new to online teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The paper is entitled “Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: Implications for academic staff development”, and you can find it in the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice.

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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The next meeting is in May 2017 and will be looking at opportunities for staff development such as the Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Academic Practice (PgCAP) and peer observation.

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes.