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Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement

Book Chapter
Garden, C., & Rivera, E. (2022)
Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement. In O. Bernardes, V. Amorim, & A. Carrizo Moreira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education (497-520). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4287-6
Gamification and Design Thinking can be thought of as part of Instructional Design (ID) in the Higher Education (HE) context. Each of these fields has much to learn from the o...

Teaching Across Time and Space: How University Educators Relate With, and Through, Technology

Book Chapter
Drumm, L. (2020)
Teaching Across Time and Space: How University Educators Relate With, and Through, Technology. In F. Soares, K. Brown, A. Uukkivi, & A. P. Lopes (Eds.), Developing Technology Mediation in Learning Environments, (23-42). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1591-4.ch002
Technology can be used to bring people closer together yet can also come between them and push them apart. In an age where discourse around our relationship with technology is...

Publish and be damned: exploring problem-based learning through the establishment of a University press

Book Chapter
Gray, A. (2016)
Publish and be damned: exploring problem-based learning through the establishment of a University press. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in Learning and TeachingEdinburgh: Merchiston Publishing
A pedagogic research publication showing new teaching approaches in higher education. This collection of chapters gives voice to academics from different disciplines across Ed...

Engaging experienced students as academic mentors in support of the first-year experience: the Epistemic Apprenticeship Project

Book Chapter
Sambell, K., & Graham, L. (2014)
Engaging experienced students as academic mentors in support of the first-year experience: the Epistemic Apprenticeship Project. In C. Bryson (Ed.), Understanding and developing student engagement, 203-217
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Assessment for learning environments: a student-centred perspective

Book Chapter
McDowell, L., & Sambell, K. (2014)
Assessment for learning environments: a student-centred perspective. In C. Kreber, . C. Anderson, N. Entwistle, & . J. McArthur (Eds.), Advances and innovations in university assessment and feedback, (56-72). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694549.003.0004
Liz McDowell and Say Sambell focus on the importance of assessment for learning. Rather than simply adding new assessment techniques to existing entrenched practices that are ...

Developing and using student-authored publications to increase staff and student awareness of the principles of assessment for learning

Book Chapter
Sambell, K. (2013)
Developing and using student-authored publications to increase staff and student awareness of the principles of assessment for learning. In M. Morgan (Ed.), Supporting student diversity in higher education : a practical guide, (182-184). Taylor & Francis
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Beyond face value: playing the game with 'Sara's face

Book Chapter
Sambell, K. (2013)
Beyond face value: playing the game with 'Sara's face. In A. Waller (Ed.), Melvin Burgess, (81-97). Palgrave Macmillan
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Involving students in the scholarship of assessment: student voices on the feedback agenda for change

Book Chapter
Sambell, K. (2013)
Involving students in the scholarship of assessment: student voices on the feedback agenda for change. In S. Merry, M. Price, D. Carless, & M. Taras (Eds.), Reconceptualising feedback in higher education: developing dialogue with students, (80-91). Taylor & Francis
This chapter focuses on an initiative which sought to promote and deepen students’ awareness, reflection and conceptual development with regard to assessment for learning (McD...

Engaging students through assessment

Book Chapter
Sambell, K. (2013)
Engaging students through assessment. In E. Dunne, & D. Owen (Eds.), The student engagement handbook : practice in higher education, (379-396). Emerald
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‘This was really different!' Alternative perspectives on the student experience of assessment: alienation and engagement

Book Chapter
Sambell, K. (2012)
‘This was really different!' Alternative perspectives on the student experience of assessment: alienation and engagement. In I. Solomonides, . A. Reid, & P. Petocz (Eds.), Engaging with learning in higher education, (185-208). Libri Publishing
This chapter focuses on students' experiences of engagement in the context of assessment. It explores one case study, which formed part of a university-wide attempt to promot...