Improving Student Learning: Improving Student Learning Global Theories and Local Practices: Institutional, Disciplinary and Cultural Variations

Contents

Chapter 1: Keynotes

  1. Learning across cultures: opening our minds as well as our doors, Jude Carroll and Janette Ryan
  2. The importance of context in understanding teaching and learning: reflections on
    thirty five years of pedagogic research, Graham Gibbs
  3. Reconsidering how professors think, Michèle Lamont
  4. Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, (Eric) Jan H F Meyer and Ray Land

Chapter 2: Teaching and Learning

  1. Learning is also a troublesome affair for university teachers, Lone Krogh and Annie Aarup Jensen
  2. The hevruta method in the political science classroom, Jeffrey L Bernstein
  3. Experiential learning in online staff development, Anne Campbell and Janet Macdonald
  4. Internationalising the student experience: staff perspectives. Exploring and realising
    potential in learning, teaching and assessment, R Dhimar
  5. Development and evaluat ion of student transition writing mentoring, James Elander, Rebecca Westrup, Teresa Caldwell, Angela Foxcroft, Lin Norton, Sarah Crooks and Karen Wardley
  6. Gender differences in the student experience of a unique teaching environment, Nicholas Freestone
  7. Assessment for learning in academic and researcher support programmes, Martin Gough
  8. Preparing for an interactive engagement class: Just-in-Time Teaching, Gregor Novak and Steven Novotny
  9. Factors impacting completion of pre-class assignments in Physics, Math, and Behavioural Sciences, Lauren Scharff, Jim Rolf, Steve Novotny and Robert Lee
  10. [Expletive deleted]: Why do students gripe about group work? Alison Thomas and Anna Helewka

Chapter 3: Organisational Change

  1. Learning outside the classroom: organisational change in response to evolving pedagogic behaviours, Leo Appleton and Val Stevenson
  2. Leadership from the ranks: the missing piece for academic development, Patricia A Lawler and Donna H Ziegenfuss
  3. Internationalisation policy and practice: the position of middle managers, Anne Qualter and Ian Willis

Chapter 4: Faculty Development (supporting changes in teaching and learning practice)

  1. A model of active student participation in curriculum design: exploring desirability
    and possibility, C Bovill and C J Bulley
  2. A first year course co-ordinators network: a targeted approach to academic
    development (4309), J MacKenzie, C Bovill and A Browitt
  3. The Assessment Design Inventory: a tool for research and staff development, Lin Norton, Bill Norton and Lee Shannon
  4. Interpreting the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
    (CEFR): applying the global to the local, Christian Jones, Mark Orme and Daniel Waller