Enhancing Teaching Practice in Higher Education
Language: English
Published by SAGE Publications, Limited, 2016
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- Title
- Enhancing Teaching Practice in Higher Education
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, Limited
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1446202852
- ISBN 13
- 9781446202852
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Cross-cutting themes include developing resilience and care for ourselves, our colleagues and our students, engaging with diversity in teaching and promoting dialogue and enquiry. It also addresses the dimensions of the UK Professional Standards Framework.
Key coverage includes:
- Models of course and learning design and evaluation
- Teaching in different contexts including lectures and small groups, laboratory, studio and practice settings and supervising student research
- Enhancing assessment and feedback, student engagement and academic writing through inclusive practice
- Promoting participation in blended learning
- Developing students’ work-relevant skills, attributes and practices
- Approaches to professional development including the role of mindfulness in teaching
This is essential reading for lecturers on Higher Education Academy-accredited programmes, such as PGCTLHE, PGCAP, PG Cert HE, and for staff seeking HEA fellowship through experience-based routes, or who wish to develop more scholarly approaches to their practice.
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About the Author
Dr Helen Pokorny is Assistant Director of University Campus St Albans (UCSA) a joint venture between the University of Hertfordshire and Oaklands Further Education College where she is responsible for academic development. UCSA has a unique curriculum designed solely for part-time mature students which builds on prior learning credit, providing all students with advanced standing. Previously she was Director of Professional Development at the University of Westminster and a Principal Lecturer London Metropolitan University. She has maintained throughout her career an abiding commitment to the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) researching and publishing on this topic and is a founding Director of the Prior Learning International Research Centre, based in Canada. She has worked with colleagues on a range of research and professional development projects publishing in the areas of assessment and feedback and student belonging. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Professor Digby Warren is Professor of Higher Education at London Metropolitan University. Digby has been working in higher education development for over 25 years. His chief area of expertise is curriculum development and higher education pedagogy, about which he has produced over 60 conference papers, published articles and book chapters - with a focus on student diversity and transformational approaches. Currently Head of the Centre for Professional and Educational Development, as a consultant member (2004-2008) of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development he delivered workshops at a number of UK universities, and was also co-editor of conference proceedings for the London series of International Conferences on the Scholarship of Learning & Teaching (2005 to 2010). On the international front, he played a lead role in two successful EU-funded projects (2011-2018) to modernise higher education, using curriculum and teaching development as a driver for innovation.
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