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.
Adopting WebPA: Implications for Assessment Strategy and Course Management
Journal Article
Feri, A., Hesketh, I., & Tjandra, N. (2017)
Adopting WebPA: Implications for Assessment Strategy and Course Management. Teaching fellows journal,
No abstract available.
Journal can be found here- https://issuu.com/teachingfellowsjournal/docs/tfj_autumn2017_issuu
Towards graduate employment: exploring student identity through a university-wide employability project
Journal Article
Smith, S., Smith, C., Taylor-Smith, E., & Fotheringham, J. (2019)
Towards graduate employment: exploring student identity through a university-wide employability project. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(5), 628-640. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2017.1390077
Students have expectations of their university education leading to graduate careers, with universities investing considerable resources in institution-wide initiatives design...
Should we teach from materials developed with corpus linguistics?
Journal Article
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2017)
Should we teach from materials developed with corpus linguistics?. English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group Journal,
In our presentation for the IATEFL ESP-SIG in Athens our intention was to create ‘wobble’ and genuine dialogue around the issue of the importance of ‘context’ in relation to ...
International student transitions in Higher Education: Chinese students studying on a professionally accredited undergraduate accounting degree programme at a Scottish university
Thesis
Findlay, R. S. M. International student transitions in Higher Education: Chinese students studying on a professionally accredited undergraduate accounting degree programme at a Scottish university. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1037580
The UK Higher Education (UKHE) sector has expanded overseas student numbers in recent years bringing significant economic and financial benefits to the sector and the economy....
Reflecting on the value of resources for internationalising the curriculum: exploring academic perspectives
Journal Article
McKinnon, S., Hammond, A., & Foster, M. (2017)
Reflecting on the value of resources for internationalising the curriculum: exploring academic perspectives. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2017.1359506
Increased interest in internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC) has led to the development of a range of resources designed to support staff in translating theory into prac...
In search of self-efficacy: development of a new instrument for first year Computer Science students
Journal Article
Bhardwaj, J. (2017)
In search of self-efficacy: development of a new instrument for first year Computer Science students. Computer Science Education, 27(2), 79-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2017.1355522
This study explores the changes in Computer Science (CS) students’ self-efficacy between entering study and the end of first year of university. It aims to give course leaders...
Academic literacies: the word is not enough
Journal Article
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2017)
Academic literacies: the word is not enough. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1360270
For Academic Literacies, the world is textually mediated; written texts and what informs them reveal elements such as subject-discipline practices. Furthermore, multi-modaliti...
The fall and rise of experiential construction and engineering education: decoupling and recoupling practice and theory
Journal Article
Forster, A. M., Pilcher, N., Tennant, S., Murray, M., Craig, N., & Copping, A. (2017)
The fall and rise of experiential construction and engineering education: decoupling and recoupling practice and theory. Higher Education Pedagogies, 2(1), 79-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2017.1338530
From the mid-20th C., construction and engineering pedagogy and curricula have moved from long-held traditional experiential apprenticeship approaches to one ostensibly decoup...
Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education
Book
Sambell, K., Brown, S. & Graham, L. (2017)
Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319545516
This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes ...