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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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The disciplinary effect on early career teachers

Approaches to teaching human empathy

Trading simulation platforms in finance education

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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

This article was published on 2024-02-26

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