Transformative Practice in Higher Education Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Section 1: Curating Time and Reflective Space to Transform Practice
Nicola Grayson

1. What Providing Time and Space Taught Us About Fostering Students’ Learning
Chad McDonald and Rebecca Parry

2. What the Medium of ‘Focusing’ Taught Me About Mattering, Wellbeing, and Belonging for Students
Farrukh Akhtar

3. What Pivoting Academic Skills Support Online Has Taught Us About the Importance of a Robust Learning Culture
Helen Jamieson and Julie Nolan

4. What the CHAMELEON Framework Taught Us About Equitable and Adaptable Pedagogy
Laura Davies and Joseph Davies

5. What Designing Accessible Academic Development Provision Taught Me About Compassionate Education
Sean Afnán Morrissey

6. What a Compassionate Approach to Transforming Practice Taught Me About Driving Institutional Change
Martin Compton

Section 2: Building Connections to Transform Practice in Higher Eduation
Alicja Syska

7. What an Online Tea Break Taught Us About Collaboration
Carina Buckley and Rebecca Cohen

8. What Active Engagement with My Community Taught Me About Driving Professional Scholarship
Lee Fallin

9. What Personalisation at Scale Taught Us About Student Belonging
Lynn Gribble and Janis Wardrop

10. What Shared Learning Spaces Taught Me About Student Belonging
Lucinda Becker

11. What Podcasting Taught Us About Innovative Pedagogy as Disruption in Higher Education
Julia Bohlmann and Micky Ross

12. What Podcasting Taught Me About Writing: Revelations from Behind the Mic
Alicja Syska

Section 3: Crossing Boundaries: Individual and Institutional Impact in Higher Education
Gita Sedghi

13. What Advocating for My Expertise Taught Me About Authentic Leadership
Nicola Grayson

14. What Floating in Pandemic Hyper Space Taught Us About Grounding Creative Academic Practice in the Here and Now
Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, John Desire, Janet Gordon, Fabian Neuhaus, and Sandra Sinfield

15. What a New LMS Adoption Taught Us About the Nature and Range of Supports Needed for Academic Stakeholders
Darina M. Slattery

16. What Blended Learning Taught Me About the Strengths of Collaboration for Interdisciplinarity
Zoë Enstone

17. What Co-Design Has Taught Us About Transformative Practice and Academic Development
Sandris Zeivots, Dewa Wardak, Andrew Cram, and Joanne Nash

18. What Democracy in Action Taught Me About Student Empowerment
Andrea Todd

Section 4. Homo ex Machina: Transforming Practice to Keep Sight of Our Humanity
Carina Buckley

19. What Digital Confidence Practice and Research Has Taught Us About Supporting Digital Change
Rachel Bancroft, Rachel Challen, Amanda Neylon, and Bethany Witham

20. What a Person-Centred, Values-Based, and Blended Approach Taught Us About Transformative Online Pedagogies in Healthcare Disciplines
Debbie Holley, Anne Quinney, and John Moran

21. What Blended Learning Taught Us About Supporting the Teaching of an Applied, Practical-Based Degree Course
Daniel James Tinnion, Thomas Ryan Simpson, and Mitchell James Finlay

22. What Educational Participatory Archiving Taught Us About Online Altruism and Collective Knowledge
Nicholas Bowskill, Melody Harrogate, and David Hall

23. Painting by Numbers? What My Lockdown Teaching Experiments, Followed by Encounters with a New Kind of Unit Design, Taught Me About Fine Art and Its Special Approach to Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Paul O’Kane

Biography

Alicja Syska is a Learning Developer and lecturer in education and history at the University of Plymouth, UK. She is a researcher, podcaster, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE), and a Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE.

Carina Buckley leads the Learning Design team at Solent University, UK. She is a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE, a member of the JLDHE editorial board, and co-host of the Learning Development Project podcast.

Gita Sedghi is a professor of chemistry education at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has received the National Teaching Fellowship, Principal Fellowship of AdvanceHE, and RSC Excellence in Higher Education Award for creating high-quality inclusive resources for a diverse community of students.

Nicola Grayson is a senior lecturer in academic development in the Centre for Learning Enhancement and Educational Development at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is a Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE.