Dr Nathalie Tasler

Tag: higher education

  • I made a game

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    I made a game and need some people who are willing to test it! Could you please help me identify inconsistencies, by all means improvements to language (grammar, typos), and things that would be nice to have.

  • My Leadership Approach

    My Leadership Approach

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    My sister who is a systemic coach, and experienced third sector leader, coached me through a very rough spot on Saturday. At the end of which she jokingly suggested to just make a poster about my leadership approach, to sort my head. If you followed for a while, you know by now that I can…

  • Entschleunigen: Slowing Down

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    One of the worst things for The Brain is to be forced to slow down. But that process of Entschleunigen (act of slowing down) is important for work life balance. So I am pondering this as we soon embark on the new academic year, different strategies for slowing down. Part of this is has been…

  • A thought on AI in Higher Education

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    Lean into It Last week a colleague and I were invited to visit our colleagues in Dumfries, for their Learning, Teaching and Scholarship day. I have yet to process all the interesting work and ideas from that day. So beginning to write up the one that stirred the most conversation and debate. A colleague proposed…

  • Mindfulness is NOT a panacea for anxious students

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    Maybe not all mindfulness techniques but some of the most common: deep breathing, and body check are not as simple or risk free as you might think: How Deep Breathing Can Worsen Trauma Responses | Psychology Today It is a dreich rainy first November here in Scotland. And at 7 am I am contemplating my…

  • Is it because the spaces never close?

    Is it because the spaces never close?

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    Just coping, not quite fine In a conversation with my students (who are also peers and colleagues) today we were talking about how we all struggle at the moment. What emerged from the conversation is that we all felt things should be easier this year. We have pivoted online, we know how everything works. And…

  • Painting a Diary

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    My efforts to publish working–out–loud pieces have been thwarted by overwhelm. So let’s step back by a month. There was some learning from this summer’s holiday-domain during which I ran out of words. This is a meandering thoughts blog, I am trying to figure something out–solve a teaching dilemma. Any ideas are welcome! If you…

  • Sotlwalk April 2021

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    The Hunt for Teaching Eggcellence! This month’s SoTLwalk is all about teaching treasures so these were the instructions: Have you made a discovery – tips, tools, delicious treasures – this year that you’d like to share with others? Where did you find them? Maybe you gamify your syllabus to make things more fun for your…

  • To keep or not to keep?

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    I am always intrigued how some themes or topics seem to come at you from all (or at least several directions) at a point in time, just to fade out of focus again once you have engaged. So this week it seems to be all about reflecting this academic year (and a bit) and the…

  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Chapter 1

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    Review: Hochschulbildungsforschung Chapter 1 I have been reading this book, the title would translate into Higher Education Educational Research and probably considered a book of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. One of the things I had entirely forgotten–or rather supressed–was how annoyingly superfluously elaborate and cluttered German academic writing can be. In one of…

  • Falling into the Heather

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    About failed adventures, resilience, and preparing for the new academic year. Last week we spend four days in the Cairngorms (Scotland), as a short break after the summer was all but relaxing. However, the weird and wonderful mechanisms of stress and being worn out saw me reaching some physical and mental boundaries. And led to…

  • Zoom Break Zumba

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    This is one option, ten minutes dance-off while you are waiting for the next session to begin–by the by: beginning. Over the last couple of months people have been asking for suggestions of what do you do during these newly acquired breaks between meetings. You know the ones we used to use to run from…

  • Friday-Artday

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    Over the last evenings I have been playing with digital and mixed media art to reflect on all the challenges faced working in higher education at the moment. In part these are responses to the irresponsible press articles demeaning online learning and teaching–it’s all just watching some videos after all, right?– dismissing the unbelievable amount…

  • A Story about Becoming a University Teacher

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    Living by the Proverb ABSTRACT There seems to be a strong link between developing our identities and storytelling. As humans, we strive for coherence, and this coherence is found in stories (Hermans, 2001). This is an experimental paper telling a story about developing a brave, and authentic self as an educator (teacher) in Higher Education…

  • SoTL Definition Conundrum

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    I have had a bit of frustration with getting a definition sorted. So I made a thinking thing … ‘definitions are living creatures’. That’s the premise.