The future of higher education : policy, pedagogy and the student experience / edited by Les Bell, Mike Neary and Howard Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Les, 1942-

Neary, Mike, 1956-

Stevenson, Howard, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Great Britain.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects.

Great Britain.

Higher education and state--Great Britain.

Higher education and state.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Great Britain.

Educational change--Great Britain.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

xii, 173 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Continuum, [2009]

Summary:

The Future of Higher Education explores how policy, pedagogy and the student experience are shaped and re-shaped by newly emerging learning landscapes in higher education, enabling university staff to place their own work within a wider theoretical framework and to develop their own understandings of some of the key controversies that surround teaching and learning in higher education.

Part 1 examines some of the key policy issues that are influencing the development of learning landscapes in higher education, including academic freedom, architecture and the use of space and teaching and learning for sustainable development.

Part 2 explores how these emerging policies, and the need for higher education institutions to respond to them, have produced a radical re-evaluation of what higher education is and what its learning landscapes might be, focussing on the work of Educational Development Units, strategies for Continued Professional Development (CPD) and technology enhanced learning.

Part 3 considers some of the factors that shape the student experience within the learning landscape of contemporary higher education by providing an analysis of the impact of the stretched academy on mature students, the use of student intelligence and the emergence of the student as producer.

The Future of Higher Education will be invaluable to all those studying and researching this field. In addition, it will be of interest to university staff, especially those following the PGCertHE and other programmes within institutional CPD frameworks.

Contents:

1 Introduction - Universities in Transition: Themes in Higher Education Policy / Howard Stevenson, Les Bell 1

Part 1 The Policy Context / Howard Stevenson

2 Academic Freedom: Essential Liberty or Extravagant Luxury? / Terence Karran 17

3 Learning Landscapes: Designing a Classroom of the Future / Mike Neary, Angela Thody 30

4 Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Examining Dissonance and instructional Strategy / Terfot Ngwana 42

Part 2 Pedagogy And The Institutional Context / Les Bell

5 Educational Development Units: The Challenge of Quality Enhancement in a Changing Environment / Julian Beckton 57

6 Continuing Professional Development in Higher Education: Tensions and Debates in a Changing Environment / Karin Crawford 69

7 Technology-Enhanced Learning: A New Digital Divide? / Sue Watling 83

Part 3 The Student Experience / Mike Neary

8 The Stretched Academy: The Learning Experience of Mature Students from Under-represented Groups / Aileen Morris 99

9 Student Intelligence: Challenging Received Wisdom in Student Surveys / Andy Hagyard 112

10 The Student as Producer: Reinventing the Student Experience in Higher Education / Mike Neary, Joss Winn 126

11 Conclusion - The Learning Landscape: Views with Endless Possibilities / Pam Locker 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [148]-165) and index.

ISBN:

9781847064738

1847064736

9781847064721

1847064728

OCLC:

252920533