Written by experienced and well-known practitioners and published in association with the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), each book in the series contributes to the development of learning, teaching and training and assists in the professional development of staff. The books present new ideas for learning development and facilitate the exchange of information and good practice.
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By Steve Armstrong, Sally Brown, Gail Thompson
February 01, 1998
This work brings together the experience of educators, trainers and students searching for ways of increasing student motivation. Links between motivation and training, learning and assessment processes are examined through case studies set in a broad range of subject discipline contexts....
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By Brown, Sally, Smith, Brenda
January 01, 1995
Exploring the issue of how educational staff can balance successfully their research and teaching activities, this volume argues that the entire system governing the relationship amongst research, teaching and learning should be dismantled and rebuilt, focusing on symbiosis rather than conflict....
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By David Baume, Peter Kahn
June 01, 2003
Systematic support for improving education and learning in further and higher education, has moved to centre stage in recent years. This is reflected in the increasing membership of professional bodies. Most new staff are encouraged to engage in staff development programmes, but receive little...
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By David Baume, Celia Popovic
January 21, 2016
Within the field of academic development, the last twenty years have seen a great expansion of published research into practice and the further development of theoretical approaches. This growth in the scholarship of academic development matches a growth in the scholarship of teaching and learning....
By Hudson, Rachel, Lyn, Oates, Maslin-Prothero, Sian
December 01, 1997
First Published in 1997. Pressures to find ways of delivering courses to new markets, lifelong learners and part-time students have all contributed to the growth in finding ways of delivering flexible learning. This book provides case studies to illustrate the diversity of approaches and gives ...
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By Colin Bryson
March 06, 2014
Enhancing the student experience, and in particular student engagement, has become a primary focus of Higher Education. It is in particularly sharp focus as Higher Education moves forward into the uncertain world of high student fees and a developed Higher Education market. Student engagement is a ...
By Sally Brown, Brenda Smith
July 01, 1996
Resource-based learning has emerged as a response to the changing expectations of students. This text provides strategies for its implementation, development evaluation and discusses the implications for resource centres....
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By Kemel Ahmet, Stephen Fallows
September 01, 1999
This text looks at the problems of teaching HE students whose main interest and discipline lies elsewhere. Contributors describe strategies they have developed to inspire students and case studies are used to transfer key ideas to other teachers....
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By Brown, Sally, Bull, Joanna, Race, Phil
October 01, 1999
This text draws on a range of expertise to share good practice and explore new ways of using appropriate technologies in assessment. It provides a strategic overview along with pragmatic proposals for the use of computers in assessment....
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By Knight, Peter (Lecturer, Department of Educational Research, University of Lancaster), Tait, Jo (University of Lancaster)
July 01, 1996
This work focuses on the competences associated with self-motivated life-long learners who are accustomed to working with autonomy, and provides models for exploring ways to develop competences in a changing world....
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By Armstrong, Steve, Thompson, Gail (both Senior Lecturers, Sunderland Business School)
February 01, 1997
This text explores how academics face up to radical changes in the learning environment. With the implementation of new technologies to support teaching and learning there is a need for more strategic approaches to teaching and learning....
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By Fran Beaton, Amanda Gilbert
October 05, 2012
Part-time teachers have become an increasing part of the workforce in universities throughout the world. They work in a sector undergoing enormous change and debate about the purposes of the university for individuals, societies and economies. As part-time employees, however, they are not ...