Innovating in higher education : teaching, learning and institutional cultures / Andrew Hannan and Harold Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hannan, Andrew, 1951-

Contributor:

Silver, Harold, 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

United States.

Educational innovations--United States.

Educational innovations.

Physical Description:

x, 173 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Innovations in teaching and learning methods in higher education are changing rapidly. Traditional lectures are being replaced by more student-centered and project-based methods, often involving the use of information and communication technology. Based on qualitative research in fifteen UK universities, this book tells the stories of those involved in such changes.

Contents:

1 Introduction: 'Innovation' 1

2 Researching Innovation 14

3 The Experience of Innovators 20

4 The Institutions: Structures, Roles and Change 33

5 Teaching and Learning 63

6 The Culture of Institutions 76

7 Enabling and Inhibiting 96

8 The Competitors 116

9 Challenges of Innovation 138

Appendix A Types of Innovation and Frequency of Occurrence amongst those Interviewed in Phase One 151

Appendix B Institutions Visited 152

Appendix C Subject Identity of those Interviewed (Phase One) 153

Appendix D The Sampling Procedure for Phase One of the Study 154

Appendix E Interview Schedules 156

Appendix F Ethics Protocols 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [162]-169) and index.

ISBN:

0335205380

0335205372

OCLC:

43701631