Teaching and learning in further and higher education: an introduction to the special issue

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-286
Author(s):  
Jennifer Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Editorial: Collaboration in higher education: Partnering with students, colleagues and external stakeholders

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Sandra Abegglen ◽  
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Tom Burns ◽  
Sandra Sinfield ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Service Staff

Welcome to this Special Issue of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP). This editorial provides an overview of Collaboration in Higher Education. Humans are social, inter-dependent beings, needing to be and communicate with each other. Being with other people provides an opportunity to grow and develop, creating a sense of self and identity. Together we construct, structure and restructure the stories that build the larger narratives of who we are, what we do and how we live, act and behave as people, professionals and larger communities. It is through our collaborations that we come together, and construct meaning and ourselves. As Higher Education continues to exclude and sideline, as it constrains and removes spaces and places for collaboration between service staff, faculty and students within institutions, between institutions, and with other stakeholders, there is a need to rediscover the power of collaboration. The articles included, build on practical experience, research data, personal and collective reflections, to outline how the contributors have navigated this tension to create spaces of voice and hope. Presented are case studies that are boundary crossing: across disciplinary boundaries; cross-institution collaboration; cross-boundary working; pedagogical co-creation and the re-conceptualising of learning; and students as partners, co-researchers and co-authors. Together they showcase refreshed notions of collegiality and collaboration in Higher Education that support new and more nuanced, and dynamic models of co-creation. We hope the Special Issue helps seed an ecology of collaborative practice for social justice – a more humane academia.

scholarly journals Editorial: Advancing Non-placement Work-integrated Learning Across the Degree

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-8
Author(s):  
Bonnie Dean ◽  
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Michelle J. Eady ◽  
Venkata Yanamandram ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Workplace Preparation ◽  
Work Integrated Learning ◽  
The Impact

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is on the rise as many universities adopt strategic targets for student workplace preparation as an element of their tertiary studies. Through WIL, students gain real world experiences, transferable skills and build professional networks. WIL is often understood as a placement activity, whereby students spend extended periods of time in industry, typically at the end or near end of their degree. These placements are designed to encapsulate the theoretical learning of a degree through the opportunity to apply knowledge and practise skills in a physical workplace. While there is much evidence in the higher education teaching and learning scholarship that attests to the benefits of placement-based WIL for all stakeholders, innovation in WIL that integrates work practices with learning is also occurring without time on placement or within a workplace. In recent years, WIL activity has extended beyond limited conceptions as describing only placements, to include a range of simulated, virtual, authentic and industry-based activities. The uptake of non-placement learning activities presents as opportunity to investigate the benefits, utility and innovation of this growing pedagogy to contribute meaningful insights to higher education scholarship and practice. This special issue is being published during the trials of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency. This global pandemic has shattered economies, touching every domain of life, including completely disrupting higher education. The call for papers for this special issue was conceived and advertised well before the universal lock down. There was evidence to suggest universities were exploring and experimenting with new ways of engaging with industry partners and that these models were offering extraordinary benefits to student learning and application of knowledge. The COVID-19 situation escalated these experiments, determining virtual WIL and projects or activities leveraged through technological platforms, as the fortuitous survivors. There is no doubt that WIL pedagogies and programs have been hit hard, however, this hardship for some has been described as cause for a learning revolution. For WIL research, this could be the impetus for questioning dominant modes of WIL and extending our understandings and knowledge of the impact of alternative WIL models.

scholarly journals Introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Wesley Shumar ◽  
Susan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Impact

This special issue focuses on new social media in higher education and the dialectical tension they generate between knowledge as information and knowledge as a creative, social process. There is a long history of using new media in higher education, and their introduction has often been associated with a renewed social purpose for the sector. Now that new social media such as Facebook, streamed lectures, TED Talks, MOOCs, Moodle and other Content Management Systems are becoming widespread, this special issue questions their potential impact on teaching and learning in higher education. Do these media fulfil some administrators’ dream of reorganising higher education in terms of economic rationality and inexpensive reusable learning modules? Or do they open up new spaces for creativity, critical thinking and social change?

scholarly journals The role of "open" in strategic library planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Petrides ◽  
Letha Goger ◽  
Cynthia Jimes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Strategic Integration ◽  
Teaching Learning

Academic libraries are undergoing evolutionary change as emerging technologies and new philosophies about how information is created, distributed, and shared have disrupted traditional operations and services. Additionally, the population that the academic library serves is increasingly distributed due to distance learning opportunities and new models of teaching and learning.  This article, the first in this special issue, suggests that in today’s increasingly networked and distributed information environment, the strategic integration of open curation and collection development practices can serve as a useful means for organizing and providing structure to the diverse mass of available digital information, so that individual users of the library have access to coherent contexts for meaningful engagement with that information. Building on insights from extant research and practice, this article proposes that colleges and universities recognize a more inclusive open access environment, including the integration of resources outside of those owned or created by the institution, and a shift toward policies that consider open access research and open educational resources as part of the library’s formal curatorial workflow and collection building. At the conclusion on this article, authors Lisa Petrides and Cynthia Jimes offer a commentary on the six remaining articles that comprise this special issue on Models of Open Education in Higher Education, discussing the significant role that “open” policy and practice play in shaping teaching, learning, and scholarship in the global context of higher education.

scholarly journals Editorial - Reflection for Learning in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Marina Harvey ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Collaborative Reflection ◽  
Reflective Practitioners

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted and proud to introduce this special issue of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice that focuses on Reflection for Learning in Higher Education. It is the outcome of six years of collaborative reflection, practice and research by many reflective practitioners who have undertaken systematic research to provide empirical evidence for the role of reflection in learning. Gratitude is expressed to our many colleagues who participated in constructive and supportive ways by engaging in the blind peer-review process for the papers that make up this issue. Their feedback has strengthened each of the papers and enabled us to move beyond peerreview to collegial peer learning.

scholarly journals Catalysing Change in Higher Education for Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 798-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Mulà ◽  
Daniella Tilbury ◽  
Alexandra Ryan ◽  
Marlene Mader ◽  
Jana Dlouhá ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
European Collaboration ◽  
The World

Purpose The world is shaped by an education system that reinforces unsustainable thinking and practice. Efforts to transform our societies must thus prioritise the education of educators – building their understanding of sustainability and their ability to transform curriculum and wider learning opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to focus on university educators and critically review the professional development and policy landscape challenges that influence their effective engagement with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The paper is informed by a pan-European collaboration involving 33 countries that identified emerging scholarship and practice in this area and assessed the lessons learned from ESD professional development initiatives. It sets the context for a special issue titled “Professional Development in Higher Education for Sustainable Development” that draws together a collection of articles focusing on professional development of university educators across the world. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides a critical review of existing practice, international policy frameworks and literature relating to ESD, professional development and higher education. It examines innovative initiatives worldwide that seek to improve the capability of educators in higher education to integrate ESD into academic practice at individual, disciplinary and institutional levels. A rigorous process of selection was applied and overseen by an international expert group. This ensured that the initiatives sought educational change in ESD, and not simply the embedding of content about sustainability into learning opportunities. It also assured that the initiatives had a clear and intentional professional learning process to underpin the engagement of participants with ESD. Findings ESD has grown in visibility and status worldwide, with a clear increase in activity in higher education. The sector is viewed as a significant force for change in societies, through the education provision it offers to future professionals and leaders in all sectors. However, universities currently lack capacity to integrate ESD effectively into mainstream teaching practices and the training they provide for academic staff or to integrate ESD into their institutional teaching and learning priorities. Many ESD activities remain focused on teaching issues arising in sustainable development research and delivering specialist modules or courses in sustainability. Very few countries and institutions have significant staff development programmes to enhance the ESD competences of university educators and build their academic leadership capabilities for ESD. The contributions to this special issue show the need for greater understanding of the multi-level task of integrating ESD into professional development activities, not just for individual impact in the classroom but to advance institutional change and decisively influence the teaching and learning discourse of higher education. Originality/value There are few research studies and documented activities on ESD professional development in higher education available in the literature. This paper attempts to explore what ESD professional development involves and describes its complexity within the higher education sector. The special issue provides a collection of innovative research and practical initiatives that can help those involved in education and learning to develop ESD as a priority for future university innovative pathways.

scholarly journals Introduction Special Issue on Self-Regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin K Morgan ◽  
Julie Saam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Management System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
Learning With Technology

We find this verbalized in many ways by those inside higher education and those outside of academia but nonetheless it remains true: “Whoever does the work does the learning” (Wong, 2013). Would you like to have your students take ownership of their learning? Wouldn’t you like your students to “do the work?” For this to happen successfully, we need to create learning environments that scaffold and personalize their learning. In turn, our students are more likely to develop metacognition and begin to self-regulate their own learning. The contributions to this special issue of the Journal of Teaching and Learning With Technology highlight how instructors have used their learning management system (LMS) to help their students self-regulate learning. We are excited to share with you ways to get your students “working.”

scholarly journals Introduction to the special issue of SOTL in the South: advancing student engagement in learning – experiences from Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tashmin Khamis ◽  
Geraldine Van Gyn ◽  
Jane Rarieya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons

Tashmin Khamis, Geraldine van Gyn and Jane Rarieya edited this special issue of SOTL in the South. This publication is one of  the noteworthy outcomes of the September 2017 SoTL Conference on Active Learning Pedagogies in Higher Education, hosted by the Network of Teaching and Learning at the Aga Khan University (AKU), that was held in Karachi, Pakistan. The theme which unites all the articles in this special issue is Advancing Student Engagement in Learning.    How to cite this editorial:  KHAMIS, Tashmin; VAN GYN, Geraldine; RARIEYA, Jane. Editorial: Introduction to the special issue of SOTL in the South: advancing student engagement in learning – experiences from Pakistan. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 3, n. 1, p. 1-5, Apr. 2019. Available at: https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=102&path%5B%5D=33   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

scholarly journals Exploring visual representation of concepts in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Buckley ◽  
Chrissi Nerantzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Access Issue

This Special Issue aims to go deeper in exploring the potential uses of visual representation in teaching and learning and the implications for practice in the context of higher education while showcasing the emerging work and research in this area from around the world. We welcome articles from new and more experienced academic writers, practitioners and researchers who have been creating, using and adapting various forms of visual representation across the disciplines and professional areas. We also invitestudents who are using them for their learning at undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral level, from around the world and would like to share their work with a wider audience through an open access issue to help us all gain new insights and deepen our understandings in this area.

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