1. L & T in HE
Initial teaching for academic What are the issues associated with
staff: learning and teaching in Higher
Education?
The teaching qualification
Balancing theoretical and practical
The history
learning
Accreditation schemes
Example of a PGC - MALTHE
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* Changing Higher Education: The development of Learning and Teaching; edited by Paul Ashwin; Published by Routledge ©2006
How has HE changed Approaches to learning
More accessible for students There are a number of approaches to
Increased diversity of students learning including
† Perhaps the profession is not teaching but a more Self-directed learning/negotiated
complex notion of ‘knowledge professional’, learning
engaged with both the production (research) and
reproduction (teaching). Problem-based learning
Skills for teaching in HE Work-based learning
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Learning & teaching Learning & teaching
E-learning – threat or opportunity Different aspects of L&T
E-learning – technology is leading or The student experience
is learning and teaching? Learner-centred approach
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* Changing Higher Education: The development of Learning and Teaching; edited by Paul Ashwin; Published by Routledge ©2006 * Changing Higher Education: The development of Learning and Teaching; edited by Paul Ashwin; Published by Routledge ©2006
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2. Research or teaching? Funding
* The academic research community has How will funding help?
perfected a process that fosters the
Where can it come from?
creation and development of knowledge
How does it effect learning and
* The training is about learning to research teaching?
the subject and disseminate it both to
other specialists and to students.
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* Changing Higher Education: The development of Learning and Teaching; edited by Paul Ashwin; Published by Routledge ©2006 * Changing Higher Education: The development of Learning and Teaching; edited by Paul Ashwin; Published by Routledge ©2006
Thoughts References
Supply all the information Changing Higher Education: The
Find their own natural way development of Learning and Teaching;
Research edited by Paul Ashwin; Published by
Routledge ©2006
Journal of Further and Higher
Education; Volume 31, Number 1,
February 2007; UCU; Published by
Routledge
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