scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 11.1

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World

This issue is the first for Volume 11 of Journal of University Teaching and Learning (JUTLP) in 2014 and my final as Senior Editor as I move into retirement and finally have time to pursue my passion for photography. I am very proud of what has been achieved by JUTLP as an open access journal and have been supported by a wonderful editorial team in order to achieve this outcome. There have been 174 articles published in the 24 issues with 116000 full text downloads since 2008 when we were able to start collecting this data. There are many people involved in ensuring each issue is published and I’d like to thank all the authors, reviewers, editors and support staff who make this possible. I have valued your support, assistance and patience over the years and know you will continue to support this journal as a valuable contribution to teaching and learning in higher education. I congratulate the new Senior Editor, Associate Professor Romy Lawson who will lead the editorial team to take JUTLP in new directions. I wish them well and know they will enjoy the engagement with authors from around the world as much as I have.

scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 10.3

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-8
Author(s):  
Marina Harvey ◽  
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Karina Luzia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The People ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
Senior Editorial

This marks my final issue as Senior Editor of JUTLP and I would like to congratulate the new senior editorial team: Romy Lawson, Alisa Percy and Dominique Parrish. I know I leave the journal in very good hands and the leadership team will ensure that JUTLP will continue to champion teaching and learning in higher education. I would like to also thank all the people who have contributed to the success of this journal: the authors, the reviewers, the members of the editorial board, and those who have contributed to the editing and desktop publishing processes. I would also like to thank you , the reader – without you there is no purpose for our writing. I feel very privileged to introduce the editorial for this special issue of JUTLP as improving opportunities for sessional staff has been a passion throughout my academic career. I would particularly like to thank all who have contributed to the reviewing for this edition and wish to congratulate Marina and Karina for their hard work in producing this edition and in exciting outcomes from the Benchmarking leadership and advancement of standards for sessional teaching project. Geraldine Lefoe, Senior Editor

scholarly journals Editorial

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
Significant Change

Welcome to the first issue of Volume Six of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. This issue contains six papers exploring a range of issues relating to teaching and learning practice and marks my first issue as Senior Editor. I would like to extend our thanks to Associate Professor Helen Carter, who has been Senior Editor of JUTLP since its inception and contributed significantly to the establishment of the journal. This edition also marks a significant change for the organisation of the journal as it is now published through an automated system providing authors, reviewers and editors with up to date information on the submission and review process, allowing authors to track their article through to publication.

scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 11.2

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Romy Lawson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Associate Dean ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Education Science

In this, my first editorial, of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning (JUTLP) I have to begin by extending thanks to Gerry LeFoe and her team for making this online journal what it is today. Without her vision and drive JULTP would not have experienced the success it has and so we have much to thank them for. I hope I can do such a good job. I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce the new editorial team • Dr Alisa Percy - Head of Learning Development, University of Wollongong; Executive Member, Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL) • Dr Dominique Parish – Associate Dean Education (Science, Medicine and Health), University of Wollongong; Executive Member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite) • Associate Professor Romy Lawson, Director Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, University of Wollongong; OLT National Teaching Fellow; Executive Member, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. We are all looking forward to the challenges of editing this journal and excited by the opportunities to engage with authors from around the world who have a passion for university learning and teaching.

scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 9.2

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
New Members ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

With this second issue of Volume 9 of the Journal of Teaching and Learning Practice we bring a warm welcome to new members of the Editorial board. The board will be strengthened by their contributions. The Senior Editors are Associate Professor Geraldine Lefoe, University of Wollongong, Australia and Dr Meg O'Reilly, Southern Cross University, Australia. Our editorial board includes members of the host institution (University of Wollongong), Dr Lynne Keevers, Ms Lucia Tome, Associate Professor Greg Hampton, Dr. Michael Jones, Associate Professor Anne Porter, and Dr. Dominique Parrish. Our external board members include Ms Jude Carroll, Associate Professor Andrew Furco, Professor Terence Lovat, and Ms Carolyn Webb. We have particularly appreciated the support of the University of Wollongong’s Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) Professor Rob Castle who has recently retired. His patronage and support of our journal has seen it move from a small internal journal to a much larger international journal. He has been a great champion for teaching and learning in the local and national arena and his contributions to the institution and to the sector have been greatly valued. We wish him well in his retirement and know that he will continue his contributions to the sector in the years to come.

scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 8.3

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Welcome to the third and final issue of Volume 8 of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning (JUTLP) in 2011. As the year draws to a close we are seeing some striking changes to the higher education sector internationally. In England budget cuts have seen the closure of the twenty-four Higher Education Academy subject centres at the same time as the establishment of student fees. In Australia the cap has been lifted across the board on the number of students that can be enrolled in universities with the resultant projected increased student numbers. The focus in Australia is on social inclusion yet in England the concern for the introduction of fees is just the opposite, these will be the very students who may now be excluded. The changes in both countries see new measures of accountability and more complex regulations put in place. Will this cause people to rethink the way we teach and the way students learn? For the Higher Education Academy in the UK, new directions see the hosting of a summit on learning and teaching with a focus on flexible learning, an indicator of new directions for many institutions. In Australia, we see a renewed opportunity to investigate such changes through the opening of the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) and its role of recognising the importance of learning and teaching through grants and awards schemes. We hope in 2012 we’ll hear more from our authors about the impact of these transformations, as well as those changes occurring in other countries around the world, on teaching practice in our universities.

Psychiatric epidemiology— looking to the future

2003 ◽  
pp. 385-402
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Epidemiology ◽  
The State ◽  
Psychiatric Research ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Research Specialty

The daunting objective for this chapter is to summarize issues which face the emerging specialty of psychiatric epidemiology, and to suggest broad directions for future research. Some of these have already been highlighted and we are grateful to contributing authors for providing their opinions as to the ‘state of play’, both in their own contributions and in communications solicited with respect to this chapter. Although the editorial team take responsibility for what is written here, we hope that it can be taken to reflect a wider body of opinion in this field. The issues raised are not intended to be exhaustive, although we hope that any specific omissions can be reasonably included within one or other of the broad themes identified. Psychiatric epidemiology is a relatively young research specialty. This creates both problems and opportunities. A problem is that it has ‘grown up’ heavily influenced by prevailing paradigms from other older fields—principally general epidemiology (regarding methodologies) and other areas of psychiatric research (regarding systems of classification and diagnosis). These are not automatically appropriate or helpful and may instead be a source for difficulties encountered in research. An advantage however for a young specialty is that it can perhaps more easily discard the trappings of tradition as it seeks to make its way in the world. Current issues will be considered under three broad headings. First, the need for new methodologies will be considered. Next, interfaces will be summarized both between psychiatric epidemiology and other specialties/agencies and within the specialty itself. Finally possible new directions for psychiatric epidemiology will be considered.

scholarly journals Welcome to Nursing Reports

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Marilyn Kirshbaum, Editor-in-Chief
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The World

I am absolutely thrilled to have such an opportunity to make a unique contribution to my profession and the wider community. At heart, I have been a nurse for a very long time. I have spent many years in clinical practice and have been fortunate to have personally thrived in the pursuit of scientific inquiry, analysis, reporting and scholarship in nursing. As this is the first editorial of Nursing Reports, I would like to share my vision. An open access journal of this kind is intended, first and foremost, to provide a communication platform from which all levels of credible knowledge relative to nursing, from all reaches of the world, could be disseminated, diffused and debated. A key objective is to make rigorously conducted research accessible to the full spectrum of practicing nurses, academics, educators and interested members of the public. It will be the job of the editorial team to ensure that high academic and ethical standards for research and reporting are reached so that we can build a strong and sound reputation; we want the journal to be widely read and influential within the broad fields of nursing, health and social care. A second objective relates to the relatively new paradigm of open access journals; there is huge scope here to reach out to nurses in the world, not only those who have subscriptions or affiliated with academic or health service libraries. The focus of the journal is to present a global perspective of nursing, its advances and issues of current concern. As nurses we are committed to the health of communities – our personal contribution may be clinical, political, educative or academic. Therefore submissions on all areas relevant to nursing are requested, whether they are in the form of empirical reports, reviews of literature, conceptual analyses, debates, short reports from around the globe or open letters that are of concern to the international community. I believe that this journal could be so vibrant and dynamic! Our esteemed associate editors and editorial board currently includes experts in mental health, cancer care, aging, public health and family, acute care, palliative care, social sciences, health promotion, empowerment, disadvantaged groups and education – and statistics. A huge welcome to ALL! Now, let’s get writing and communicating!!

scholarly journals Editorial Issue 8.1

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Journal Rankings ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Publication Guidelines

Welcome to Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning. JUTLP continues to grow and submissions have increased dramatically since journal rankings were implemented in Australia. We would like to thank our editorial board and reviewers for their consistent effort and valuable feedback to potential authors. Two production changes underpin this issue. Firstly, use of new publication guidelines which can be found here: http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/styleguide.html. Secondly, we welcome support for journal desktop publishing from the Centre for Academic Systems & Resources, University of Wollongong. From now on there will be three editions per year, comprising two general editions and a further edition focused on a special issue. We would like to invite proposals for special editions for 2012 or 2013 that should include: - A possible title for the special edition, its aim, scope and areas of focus; - A brief curriculum vitae, including publications, of the chief editor and any co-editors; and - A timeline leading to publication by October of either 2012 or 2013. Responsibilities of the guest editor(s) include reviewing the special issue papers, and provision of the final versions for publication by the end of September for the identified year. Please contact the Senior Editor if you are interested. Submissions for the 2012 special edition are required by June 30th 2011.

scholarly journals Editorial

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Romy Lawson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Effective Dissemination ◽  
New Knowledge

Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice for 2015. This issue once again has a variety of papers from different countries to inspire you. The editorial team is very pleased to announce that in addition to the regular three issues for this year we shall also be publishing a special issue. This special issue will be focused on work presented at the Western Australia's Teaching and Learning Forum. One of the themes this issue will explore is how to go beyond the conventional notion of research publications presenting "new knowledge", which creates an emphasis upon originality and novelty. It will go further, into notions about effective dissemination, about the "breeding" or "fomenting" or "stimulating", of actual implementations of improved T&L practices being a vital complement to the notion of research as "new knowledge". Also, this issue will expand upon the 2015 theme, "Teaching and learning uncapped", going into the how and why of "uncapping", from the perspective of improving T&L practices, without really going into the other meanings and origins of the term "uncapped".

scholarly journals Evolution of cooperative study

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
pp. 76-78
Author(s):  
Isamu Okada
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Evolution Of Cooperation ◽  
Cooperative Study ◽  
Indirect Reciprocity ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Rational Thought

Associate Professor Isamu Okada is based at the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Business Administration, Soka University in Japan, as well as a visiting professor of Department of Information Systems and Operations, Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. Okada has dedicated his career to understanding more about the evolution of cooperation which is a strand of thought that falls under evolutionary biology. Academics around the world have long considered the issues relating to the evolution of cooperation. In these studies, cooperation is taken to mean providing benefits to others by paying some kind of cost, whether that be money, time, effort, etc. One of the most fascinating aspects of the theory is that rational thought holds a person has no incentive to cooperate. Indeed, despite decades of research and huge numbers of studies, a rational reason for cooperating has still not been cultivated properly. One of the mechanisms that lie behind cooperation are known as reciprocity and there are many different types. Three specific types have been studied in great detail; direct reciprocity, indirect reciprocity and network reciprocity. Okada's team has conducted investigations that shine new light on indirect reciprocity which could open up new directions for the field of evolutionary biology.

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