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7 December 2023
3 minutes to readTop Banana Transformed by Mindfulness & Resilience?: Tackling Maths Anxiety and Boosting Maths Self-Concept for University Students
by Dr Julie Pepper and Dr Katherine Ashbullby The Top Banana network, which started thanks to an Exeter Education Incubator Discovery Grant, aims to share best practice at Exeter University to promote positive maths self-concept and prevent maths anxiety. It has a Microsoft Teams channel and 20 members (new members still welcome,…
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20 September 2023
3 minutes to read‘Melanin Matters’: A Student-Led Anti Racism Project
by Pavel Loginovic and Shihan Salihu We are Pavel and Shihan, two members of the Melanin Matters Team. Melanin Matters is a group composed of 4 Medical Students at the University of Exeter that aims to bridge the diversity knowledge gap existing in our medical curriculum. Everything started when we went to…
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6 September 2023
5 minutes to readHoping to Grow a Top Banana: Reducing Maths Anxiety and Promoting a Positive Maths Self Concept
By Dr Julie Pepper Thank you for reading my first ever go at a blog post! While my dad was an accountant and liked maths, I grew up knowing my mum found maths “scary.” I think her experiences at school gave her a low maths self-concept as well as maths anxiety. Even…
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16 August 2023
3 minutes to readDelivering Complex Simulated Exercises to Large Student Groups
by Dr Martin Robson, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies Simulated exercises are a proven pedagogical tool to provide students with a ‘sandpit’ to test concepts and theories in a simulated real-world context for the purpose of pedagogical progression, personal training and the reinforcement of skills and behaviours. Simulations involve participants to collaborate…
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3 August 2023
3 minutes to readExeter Education Incubator ChatGPT and Higher Education Project
By Kerry Deacon, Project Manager of the Exeter Education Incubator at the University of Exeter Generative AI in Higher Education Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 are changing the landscape in higher education. As with any new emerging technologies, there are opportunities to explore and challenges to overcome. Generative AI tools…
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