A smooth transition?: Education and social expectations of direct entry students
Journal Article
Barron, P., & D'Annunzio-Green, N. (2009)
A smooth transition?: Education and social expectations of direct entry students. Active learning in higher education, 10(1), 7-25. doi:10.1177/1469787408100190
While the most common type of student entering higher education falls within the 17—19-year-old age group, universities in the UK are keen to accept other categories of studen...
Putting ourselves in the picture: art workshops in the professional development of university lecturers.
Journal Article
Loads, D. J. (2009)
Putting ourselves in the picture: art workshops in the professional development of university lecturers. International Journal for Academic Development, 14(1), (59-67). doi:10.1080/13601440802659452. ISSN 1360-144X
Nurse education is characterised by dissonance, ambiguity and uncertainty. Such a context makes demands on the educator’s authenticity or sense of self. This paper reports an ...
What's the Point of Film School, or, What did Beaconsfield Film Studios ever do for the Scottish film industry?
Book
Scott, A. J. (2008)
What's the Point of Film School, or, What did Beaconsfield Film Studios ever do for the Scottish film industry?. In J. Murray, F. Farley, & R. Stoneman (Eds.), Scottish Cinema Now, 206-221. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This is an essay which examines the role of the UK National Film and TV School, Beaconsfield, in nurturing Scottish film-makers in the period 1970-2005. It looks back at the h...
Being innovative with the assessment process: using posters in entrepreneurship education.
Conference Proceeding
Brodie, J., Anderson, M. & Laing, S. (2008)
Being innovative with the assessment process: using posters in entrepreneurship education
In an undergraduate entrepreneurship course that encourages students to reflect on the role of innovation and creativity in enterprising organisations, we initiated a novel ap...
External Examining: an Engineering Subject Centre guide.
Working Paper
Cowan, J. (2008)
External Examining: an Engineering Subject Centre guide
This handbook was prepared for external examiners and for use in training workshops for newly appointed external examiners.
Enhanced educational framework for networking
Thesis
McLuskie, D. Enhanced educational framework for networking. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4033
Teaching and assessing students in the practical side of networking can be achieved through the use of simulators. However the network simulators are limited in what can they ...
The managed learning environment in Scottish Higher Education: a socio-technical exploration
Thesis
Edwards, D. The managed learning environment in Scottish Higher Education: a socio-technical exploration. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6425
This thesis presents a socio-technical account of the adoption and development of Managed Learning Environments (MLE) in three Universities in Scotland. The term 'development'...
The use of poster presentations with undergraduate accounting students.
Working Paper
Fotheringham, A. (2008)
The use of poster presentations with undergraduate accounting students
Posters are frequently used as an assessment tool with undergraduate
students within Health and Social Science related fields, but have not been
used within undergraduate acco...
Fostering an action‐reflection dynamic amongst student practitioners
Journal Article
Francis, H., & Cowan, J. (2008)
Fostering an action‐reflection dynamic amongst student practitioners. Journal of European industrial training, 32(5), 336-346. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090590810877067
Purpose – This paper seeks to explore changes taking place in a curriculum design for postgraduate teaching in personnel and development, aimed at enhancing lifelong learning....
Triumph over the barricades and put the evidence into practice.
Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2008)
Triumph over the barricades and put the evidence into practice. British Journal of Midwifery. 16, 76-81. doi:10.12968/bjom.2008.16.2.28334. ISSN 0969-4900
In some instances midwives find it difficult to implement research into practice (Albers, 2001). For example, evidence informs of the benefits of providing continuous support ...