This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement. It offers numerous pragmatic illustrations of how to design and deliver an engaging curriculum, and assess students’ learning authentically. Sound scholarship and research-informed approaches to Higher Education teaching and learning underpins the myriad accessible and readily recognizable examples of how real educators solve the challenges of contemporary Higher Education. Additionally, guidance is offered on how to present evidence for those seeking accreditation of their teaching and leadership in Higher Education, as well as useful advice for experienced HE teachers seeking to advance their careers into more senior roles, on the basis of their strong teaching and pedagogic leadership. The book will be of great interest to studentsand researchers working in Education, and will be invaluable reading for both new and experienced lecturers working in HE institutions.
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. From Teaching to Learning: Key Concepts and Foundational Principles.- Chapter 3. Promoting Student Engagement in Learning: Putting Scholarly Theory into Practice.- Chapter 4. Learning and Working Together: Students as Peers and Partners.- Chapter 5. Engaging Students with Positive Learning Experiences through Assessment and Feedback.- Chapter 6. Promoting Engagement via Research-Rich Environments.- Chapter 7. Engaging Staff in their Own Professional Development.
About the author
Kay Sambell is a professor in the Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier University, UK; she is also a UK National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Sally Brown is an Independent Consultant and Emerita Professor at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association and a UK National Teaching Fellow.
Linda Graham is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a senior lecturer and programme route leader in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University, UK.
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