#CelebratingTogether: Professor Christine Cooper

Reading Time: 2 minutes Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are back to recognise outstanding members of learning and support staff. After a challenging year for everyone, we’re celebrating our worthy nominees by shouting about their successes across our digital platforms.    What is your full name?  Christine Cooper  What is your job title?  Chair …

#CelebratingTogether: Gwyneth Scholefield

Reading Time: 2 minutes Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are back to recognise outstanding members of learning and support staff. After a challenging year for everyone, we’re celebrating our worthy nominees by shouting about their successes across our digital platforms.    What is your full name?  Gwyneth Scholefield  What is your job title?  Teaching …

The point of an on-campus education

Reading Time: 7 minutes In this post, Dr Sarah Ivory from the Business School makes the case to potential students and their supporters that a university education is more than simply the accumulation of discipline-specific knowledge. Instead, an on-campus education facilitates thinking, intellectual, social and personal transitions, which will be the foundations on which …

University of Edinburgh Business School: Hybrid Teaching for Undergraduates

Reading Time: < 1 minute Information on the teaching experience you will have as an undergraduate student at the Business School which will be used throughout the School in 2020–21. https://join.business-school.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/hybrid   Jun 26, 2020

Transforming a Business course for a hybrid world

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this post, Dr Stephen Harwood from the Business School shares his thoughts on shifting his course into a hybrid format, reflecting on how to use appropriate technologies to facilitate the learning process and interactions with our students. He discusses how technology, if simply thrown at existing practices, risks posing …

Transforming my university course for a COVID world – but how?

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this post, Stephen Harwood Lecturer in Strategy, Management of Technology, Operations Management & Research Methods at the University of Edinburgh Buisness School describes how he handled the challenge of converting his courses to a hybrid form and how technology can facilitate a student experience. Transforming my university course for …