Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching: Insights for Learning Design in Business and Law - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3031680855 ISBN 13: 9783031680854

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

This open access edited collection is aimed at educators, student services staff, and university management. It is timely in adopting a forward-facing view of various aspects of digital teaching and learning in business and law and provides a vital resource for those designing, managing or thinking about digital learning in both fields.

About this title

About the Author

Jacqueline Baxter is Professor of Public Leadership and Management, and founding Director of the Scholarship Centre for innovation in online Legal and Business education (SCiLAB) in the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University, UK, which she led from 2019 to 2024. She is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Helen Selby-Fell holds a Senior Lectureship in Policing and is Deputy Director of SCiLAB in the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University, UK.

Andrew Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Partnerships in the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University, UK.

From the Back Cover

“This book shares valuable practice for how to navigate innovative approaches in digital education environments that are attainable for staff and accessible and engaging for students.”- Radka Newton, Director of Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education, Lancaster University Management School, UK  

“Digital scholarship is an area of growing importance and centrality. This book aims to inform and clarify foundational assumptions in learners and teachers, and to reduce the mismatch of expectations on all sides by the provision of considered and evidence-based scholarship.”                      - Caroline Strevens, Portsmouth Law School, University of Portsmouth, UK 

“This volume is a major resource for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of contemporary police professionalisation.”- Tom Cockcroft, School of Law and Policing, University of Central Lancashire, UK

This open access edited collection is aimed at educators, student services staff, and university management. It is timely in adopting a forward-facing view of various aspects of digital teaching and learning in business and law and provides a vital resource for those designing, managing or thinking about digital learning in both fields.

Jacqueline Baxter is Professor of Public Leadership and Management, and founding Director of the Scholarship Centre for innovation in online Legal and Business education (SCiLAB) in the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University, UK, which she led from 2019 to 2024. She is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Helen Selby-Fell holds a Senior Lectureship in Policing and is Deputy Director of SCiLAB in the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University, UK.

Andrew Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Partnerships in the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031680855
• ISBN 13: 9783031680854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Baxter Jacqueline, Selby-Fell Helen, Gilbert Andrew