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                      • March 2024
                          • Co-creating a culturally responsive pedagogy
                          • Incorporating student perspectives towards Generative AI
                          • Open Educational Resources core engineering mathematics
                          • Commuter students’ experiences of assessment, degree outcomes and labour market prospects
                          • Embedding Accessibility into Higher Education Courses and Programmes
                          • Understanding and Shaping Generative AI Integration in Computer Science Education
                          • Clients as Partners in Education: Valuing and Developing Relationships
                      • October 2023
                          • Co-Creation of a New Development Needs Analysis for PGR Students
                          • A co-design approach to developing novel clinical reasoning assessments.
                          • Beyond the dissertation
                          • Investigating conceptions and conceptual change in the teaching of large STEM classes
                          • Hearing the silent voices
                          • Towards an ecological pluriversity
                          • A systematic approach to enable production of accessible course materials
                          • Generative AI in education
                      • March 2023
                          • Mentoring in partnership: Empowering School Based Teacher Educators to develop their practice
                          • Evaluating institutional approaches to portfolio use
                          • Developing evidence-based guidelines to reduce statistics anxiety among university students
                          • Nature connection sessions for student wellbeing
                          • Impact of frequency and scale of coursework in STEM subjects
                          • Sustainable Careers Project
                          • Social Theory Walks: The City of Edinburgh as a teaching space
                          • Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections from Psychosocial Perspectives
                          • Computational thinking in data science: Strategies for Effective Learning
                      • October 2022
                          • Making connections to the ‘real’ world: further developing teacher vision in Initial Teacher Education
                          • Research staff: the missing link in teaching and learning?
                          • Paws on Campus: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study of a Canine-assisted Intervention for Student Wellbeing
                          • Crossing the Line: Developing an Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Higher Education
                          • An enhancement-oriented investigation of marking trends and practices in the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
                          • Sensing in the Community
                          • Set Them Free! Open Publishing of INF1B Course Materials
                      • March 2022
                          • Our sustainable campus: developing a technology-assisted tour of University of Edinburgh’s sustainable buildings
                          • How is statistical study design and statistical analysis taught in the life sciences?
                          • Assessing medical students’ preparedness to engage in clinical research practice.
                          • A gamification approach to enhancing student empathy towards laboratory animals
                          • Living and Studying at Home: Commuter Students in the Aftermath of the Pandemic
                          • Recreating the BBC class calculator: A project in open science pedagogy
                          • A Data-driven Approach to Supporting Reflection in Edinburgh Teaching Award Scheme Applicants
                      • October 2021
                          • Hybrid Pioneers: A cross-institute Action Group 2021-2023
                          • Improving the quality of assessment-feedback in postgraduate education; Co- creation of a digital training resource
                          • Enabling mature age working class undergraduate students to succeed at the University of Edinburgh
                          • Amplifying the student voice: co-creation of resources to facilitate student feedback
                      • March 2021
                          • Developing a framework for inclusiveness in internationalisation
                          • Open to All? Faculty Development for Equitable Participation in Clinical Teaching
                          • Equality, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum: developing a strategic approach in the medical school
                          • Co-creating curriculum through the course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
                          • Co-creating an inclusive self-care curriculum to enhance wellbeing and learning for social work students
                          • Developing digital and hybrid mathematics support for long-term improvements in quality and accessibility
                          • Beginning university during SARS-CoV-2 restrictions: meeting the needs of students belonging to a Widening Participation group
                          • Critical Thinking Retreat: Using situated simulations to develop researcher positioning in master’s students
                          • Enhancing students' experience through co-constructing academic community
                          • Integrating student participation and EDI with Board of Studies: towards a community of critical readers
                          • VR Lab: Enable Online Laboratory Teaching through Virtual Reality
                          • Exploring and engaging with student perceptions of digital citizenship
                          • Exploring the relationship between Learning Technologists and teaching staff
                          • The creation and use of low-fidelity models - key surgical skill competence and confidence in final year veterinary students
                      • October 2020
                          • Student-led portfolio assessment - large pre-honours cross-university elective
                          • Decolonising the Business School Curriculum
                          • Decoding the Interdisciplines: Helping teachers & learners discover unfamiliar ways of thinking
                          • Empathy and compassion in work and life
                          • Supporting teacher reflection through visualisation of classroom practices data
                          • Empowering student teachers to improve classroom practice using the Lesson Study model
                          • Can a pandemic evidence-synthesis group become a model for student development and enhanced learning?
                          • Keeping the Door Open: Curating, developing and evolving University of Edinburgh teaching in spaces and places
                          • Researching widening participation in Engineering: Enrolment, Progression, Attainment and Support Strategy
                          • Exploring online learning as an avenue for equity and decolonial praxis amid the COVID crisis
                          • Developing a tutoring network in Informatics for young people in schools in deprived areas
                      • May 2020
                          • Predicting academic attainment in case-based discussion board assessments
                          • Using 3D-printing technology to create novel simulator models
                          • J-YAP Inter-University Support Project
                          • Assessment Literacy for Graduate Attribute Enhancement (ALGAE) in Biomedical Sciences
                          • Supporting criteria-based marking
                          • Promoting support to succeed and progress
                          • Personal Values in Postgraduate University Student Engagement
                          • Through the patient's eyes: using virtual reality to teach empathy to medical and nursing students
                          • Aligning skills, assessments and feedback: a programme-level scheme
                      • October 2019
                          • Do you really belong? Understanding the BAME attainment gap at Edinburgh University
                          • Establishing the Dick Vet Immersive Simulation Environment (DiVISE)
                          • Conversations, community and collegiality: Exploring the effect of blogging on teaching and learning practice
                          • Evaluation of the innovative, interdisciplinary, experiential learning opportunities EPSRC Our Health offer
                          • Developing a disability studies module in the School of Health in Social Science
                          • Mentoring for success: Co-producing a meaningful workplace mentoring scheme
                          • Creation and evaluation of immersive simulation digital media
                          • Student-led neuroscience outreach project aimed at a diverse range of high school pupils
                          • Enhancing International Student Experience at History, Classics & Archaeology
                      • March 2019
                          • Lecture recordings in everyday study practice
                          • Lecture segmentation and transcription
                          • Edinburgh Award Evaluation
                          • Supporting success for widening participation students
                          • Widening participation in Maths circles
                          • Supporting transition to university mathematics with blended learning
                          • Uncovering uncertainties linked to widening participation
                          • Widening Veterinary Outreach to the Scottish Highlands and Islands
                          • Using UX research methods to inform online course design
                          • Study abroad and disciplinary thinking and practising
                          • Building biological models in minecraft
                          • Understand learning pathways with curriculum analytics
                      • October 2018
                          • Classroom practices and lecture recording
                          • E-portfolios and developing awareness of graduate attributes
                          • Pre-entry online Chemistry course - widening participation
                          • HCA Writing Centre
                          • Engagement and feedback tools for students
                          • Learning glass: evaluating its use by teachers and students
                          • EdAR – Educational Apps in Augmented and Mixed Reality
                      • March 18
                          • Lecture recordings - domestic and international student comparison
                          • Teach learn replay
                          • Podcasts to enhance the online distance learning experience
                          • Lecture capture - online learning
                          • Preparing graduates to manage acutely unwell patients
                          • Employability mismatch in veterinary education
                          • Embedding a culture of career learning in the GeoSciences
                          • Students-staff partnership in Biomedical Sciences 2
                          • LLC Knowledge exchange
                          • Archaeology at the Centre for Open learning (COL)
                          • International students' participation PGT first semester
                          • Exploring learning and assessment practices in University and professional workplaces.
                          • Embedding employability in the course approval process
                          • Design-thinking frameworks for future-directing bio-innovation
                      • October 2017
                          • Lecture recording for inclusive education
                          • Enhancing Engagement with Media Hopper Replay
                          • RMDAS - Research methods, data analysis and statistics course
                          • High school mentoring - physics
                          • The Bottle Imp: a graphic adaption
                          • Supporting transition to the workplace
                          • Research-led virtual field trips
                          • Assessment literacy pyramid
                          • Comparing First Year Student Transition Experiences
                          • Using Media Hopper to enhance peer-teaching
                          • Engagement with the discourse of professional development
                          • Improving Data Science Teaching
                          • Vets at "Play"
                      • March 2017
                          • ShinyStats statistics training apps
                          • CollaboratED
                          • Lecture recording in mathematics and physics
                          • Enriching lecture recording
                          • Exploring engagement with lecture recording
                          • Corpus analysis of student feedback
                          • Students' experiences of academic writing support
                          • Playful Learning - OER Board Game Jams
                          • Promoting a learning community through peer feedback
                          • The role of the PGT Programme Director
                          • Helping students to write readable code
                          • Student nurses' learning - care home nursing
                          • Teaching for critical thinking in business
                          • Improving the mathematics diagnostic test
                          • Preparing students to face wicked problems
                          • A curriculum for climate justice
                          • Coding club
                          • Becoming Agents of Change
                      • October 2016
                          • "What are you going to do with that?" The HCA Degree and Employability
                          • Developing Context-Based Physical Chemistry Laboratory Investigations
                          • Experiential learning in communities: developing and testing a framework for evaluation
                          • 'From the door of our tent' : an online journal of creative and contemporary ethnographic work
                          • Formative assessment: how useful is it, who does it help the most, and how can we improve it further?
                          • Exploring flexible modes of online education
                          • Skills development and employability in the Business School Undergraduate curriculum
                          • Asking the right question
                          • Making students curious: using an app-based walking tour as a pedagogical tool
                      • March 2016
                          • "A live pulse": Yik Yak for understanding teaching, learning and assessment
                          • Physical activity in medical education: a flipped classroom approach
                          • The Law School history wall project
                          • Every student a researcher: blogging as a form of student assessment
                          • Learning about the limitations of medicine
                          • Embedding resilience training into the core veterinary curriculum
                          • The English Bonus?
                          • Theory on stage
                          • Empowering postgraduate students in history to become better teachers
                          • Implementing lessons learned on embedded study skills provision
                          • Developing an anatomy bodypainting workbook
                          • Nursing students exchanging knowledge and experience through stories
                          • Pre-laboratory peer assessed skills in inorganic chemistry
                          • Enhancing assessment literacy and scorer reliability
                          • Building competence in social sciences for students of medical sciences
                      • October 2015
                          • Diversity Reading List
                          • The disciplinary effect on early career teachers
                          • Approaches to teaching human empathy
                          • Trading simulation platforms in finance education
                          • How do students and staff view assessment: 'Of', 'In' or 'As' learning?
                          • Using gesture recognition system for hand hygiene training
                          • What does good teaching look like to students?
                          • Evaluating professional internships for PhD Students
                          • Ways of thinking and practising in IMES
                          • Peer assessing laboratory skills
                          • Understanding the learning experience from voluntary work
                      • March 2015
                          • Using feedback postcards
                          • E-Light: Edinburgh, energy and education exchange
                          • Masters degree perceived value
                          • Peer-led PhD training workshops
                          • Preparation for practice
                          • Developing learning for sustainability
                          • Art Beat: Art and anatomy Edinburgh
                          • Enhancing interdisciplinary learning
                      • October 2014
                          • Developing academic writing using Turnitin
                          • Widening participation - history of art
                          • Embedded study skills & student attainment
                          • Student-led media library development
                          • Teaching international students
                          • Social justice development
                          • Peer support for pre-arrival
                          • Learning in a living lab
                      • March 2014
                          • Co-development of a flipped classroom strategy
                          • Managing your digital footprint (research strand)
                          • Tactical decision games in teaching
                          • Early warning system - students at risk of failure
                          • A curly arrows app for Chemistry?
                          • Dissertations at a distance
                          • Third space: evaluating a pilot
                          • Doctoral students as (collaborative) writers
                          • Online training - good clinical practice
                          • Tutor feedback - online academic writing courses
                          • Interdisciplinary simulated learning
                      • October 2013
                          • Integrated assessment and feedback practices
                          • Online reflexive practice
                          • Musical improvisation in higher education
                          • Growing and sustaining an online community
                          • Personal tutoring in transition
                      • March 2013
                          • Digital detectives
                          • Personalised feedback - multi-station practicals
                          • 3-D models for undergraduate education
                          • Innovative environmental analysis teaching
                          • Interactive e-books for engineers
                          • Humanising an asynchronous online course
                          • Social media - teaching and community
                          • Transitions between academic cultures
                      • October 2012
                          • Data analysis and student support in maths
                          • Student perspectives: generic research methods
                          • Comparative study: expectations and achievements
                          • Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) in the vet curriculum
                          • Autonomous postgraduate learning abroad & VLEs
                          • Exploring online distance learning
                      • June 2012
                          • Critical skills
                          • Introducing psychology
                          • German in the workplace
                          • Ways of thinking & practising
                          • Engineering education & sustainability
                          • Medical students feedback
                          • Alumni mentoring scheme
                          • PeerWise: biology
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                          • Websites and community
                          • Psychology research with young people
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PTAS projects details and abstracts from the October 2014 round.

Developing academic writing using Turnitin

Widening participation - history of art

Embedded study skills & student attainment

Student-led media library development

Teaching international students: supporting lecturers

Social justice development

Peer support for pre-arrival

Learning by developing in a 'living lab'

This article was published on 2024-02-26

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