The Handbook is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research and scholarship, and academic management. Against the contexts, the book focuses on developing professional academic skills for teaching. Dealing with the rapid expansion of the use of technology in higher education and widening student diversity, the fully updated and expanded edition includes new material on, for example, e-learning, lecturing to large groups, formative and summative assessment, and supervising research students. Part 1 examines teaching and supervising in higher education, focusing on a range of approaches and contexts Part 2 examines teaching in discipline-specific areas and includes new chapters on engineering, economics , law and the creative and performing arts. Part 3 considers approaches to demonstrating and enhancing practice Written to support the excellence in teaching required to bring about learning of the highest quality, this will be essential reading for all new lecturers, particularly anyone taking an accredited course in teaching and learning in higher education, as well as all those experienced lecturers who wish to improve their teaching. Those working in adult learning and education development will find it a particularly useful resource.
Author(s): Heather Fry
Edition: 3
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 544
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Foreword......Page 19
Part 1 Teaching, supervising and learning in higher education......Page 20
1 A user’s guide......Page 22
2 Understanding student learning......Page 27
3 Encouraging student motivation......Page 46
4 Planning teaching and learning: Curriculum design and development......Page 59
5 Lecturing to large groups......Page 77
6 Teaching and learning in small groups......Page 91
7 E-learning – an introduction......Page 104
8 Teaching and learning for employability: Knowledge is not the only outcome......Page 118
9 Supporting student learning......Page 132
10 Assessing student learning......Page 151
11 Supervising projects and dissertations......Page 169
12 Supervising research students......Page 185
13 Teaching quality, standards and enhancement......Page 205
14 Evaluating courses and teaching......Page 217
Part 2 Teaching in the disciplines......Page 232
15 Teaching in the disciplines......Page 234
16 Key aspects of learning and teaching in experimental sciences......Page 245
17 Key aspects of teaching and learning in mathematics and statistics......Page 265
18 Key aspects of teaching and learning in engineering......Page 283
19 Key aspects of teaching and learning in computing science......Page 301
20 Key aspects of teaching and learning in arts, humanities and social sciences......Page 319
21 Key aspects of teaching and learning in languages......Page 342
22 Key aspects of teaching and learning in the visual arts......Page 364
23 Key aspects of teaching and learning: Enhancing learning in legal education......Page 382
24 Key aspects of teaching and learning in accounting, business and management......Page 401
25 Key aspects of teaching and learning in economics......Page 424
26 Key aspects of teaching and learning in medicine and dentistry......Page 443
27 Key aspects of teaching and learning in nursing and midwifery......Page 468
Part 3 Enhancing personal practice......Page 486
28 Enhancing personal practice: Establishing teaching and learning credentials......Page 488
29 Teaching excellence as a vehicle for career progression......Page 504
Glossary......Page 518
Index......Page 532
