Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders
Journal Article
Webb, A. S., & Tierney, A. M. (2020)
Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 57(5), 613-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2019.1635905
In this paper, we focus on the experience of faculty learning to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Our two studies uncovered similar threshold concepts in So...
Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit
Conference Proceeding
Tierney, A., & McQueen, H. (2019)
Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit
Learning by Design’ was the theme of the 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.
There were forty-eight delegates from 20 different UK HE institutes in attendance, representing ...
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2020)
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?. Studies in Higher Education, 45(1), 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1574732
This paper is a response to Cotton, Miller and Kneale’s 2017 paper on the current state of higher education research within UK universities. It seeks to contribute to the deba...
Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives.
Presentation / Conference
Ennis, L., Tierney, A., Lucas, L., Logan, P., & Wright, G. (2018, October)
Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives. Presented at Evidence for Enhancement: The Challenge of Community and Belonging
The Faculty Learning Community (FLC) at Edinburgh Napier University is based on the Miami model developed by Milton D. Cox and seeks to explore the ways in which staff support...
Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences
Book Chapter
Scott, G., & Tierney, A. (2018)
Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences. In E. Cleaver, M. Lintern, & M. McLinden (Eds.), Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational EnquirySAGE Publications
No abstract available.
The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving.
Other
Tierney, A. (2018)
The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving
In response to Richard Arum’s charge that higher education research is failing to sufficiently investigate university teaching, Anne Tierney gives concrete examples of the con...
Opportunities for Brokering between Teaching-Focused and Research-Focused UK Life Science Academics
Presentation / Conference
Tierney, A. (2017, December)
Opportunities for Brokering between Teaching-Focused and Research-Focused UK Life Science Academics. Paper presented at Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference, Celtic Manor, Newport
Life Sciences teaching-focused academics working in UK universities have been an expanding and emergent group in the past two decades. However, despite their successes in supp...
Engaging with Educational research: Five Ideas from the Literature to Improve your Practice
Presentation / Conference
Tierney, A. (2017, November)
Engaging with Educational research: Five Ideas from the Literature to Improve your Practice. Presented at University of Aberdeen Teaching Fellow Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland
No abstract available.
Threshold Concepts in Academic Practice: Engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2017)
Threshold Concepts in Academic Practice: Engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 12(2), 165-184
This paper investigates the existence and nature of threshold concepts as experienced by a group of twenty-one teaching-focused academics, from life science departments in UK ...
"More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs
Thesis
Tierney, A. "More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs. (Thesis)
Durham University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1652776
This study seeks to understand the effect of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) on Teaching-Focused Academics working in Life Sciences in UK higher education institutions...