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Changing University Learning and Teaching: Engaging and Mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology contributes original and significant research to the field of university learning and teaching.
It does this by focusing on two intersecting elements of university learning and teaching, each directed at a different sense of the key term 'changing':
The book focuses on three key elements of efforts to change university learning and teaching more sustainably and systematically:
Separately and in combination, leadership, quality and technology can facilitate changing university learning and teaching in ways that make higher education more productive, relevant and potentially transformative. The 18 chapters in the book explore multiple manifestations of engagements with and mobilisations of those processes and hoped for outcomes.
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- Preface John Rickard
- Foreword Roger Murphy
- Editors' Introduction
Jeanne McConachie, Michael Singh, Patrick Alan Danaher, Fons Nouwens and Geoff Danaher
- Section One: Leadership
- Introduction Jeanne McConachie
- Leadership for Mobilising Change in Educating Teachers for Further Education and Training
Mark A. Tyler, Robert D. White, Catherine H. Arden and Patrick A. Danaher- "How We Do Things Around Here": Educational Change and Effective Faculty Leadership in Post-Blair Britain
Chris Robertson and Robyn Cox- Getting People Involved: Leadership for Change as an Occupation Professionalises
Catherine Layton, Anna Corbo Crehan and Matthew Campbell- The Nexus Between Research and Student Learning: Reflecting on International Testing Research and Reflections
Michael Singh and Li-Nan Yao
- Section Two: Quality
- Introduction Patrick Alan Danaher
- Students’ Perceptions of a Quality Preparatory Program at an Australian Regional University: Success Through Changing Worldviews
Jeanne McConachie, Karen Seary and Jenny Simpson- Film as a Vehicle for Researching Problems Relevant to Students' Future Careers: Evidence Driven Research and Quality University Teaching
Michael Singh, Hongying Qi and Jin Hu- Critical Theory, Teacher Quality and the Alternative Practicum
Loshini Naidoo- Mathematics for Initial Teacher Education Students (MITES): The Effect of Competence Classes on Self-efficacy
Beverley Moriarty- Envisioning Change: Quality and Creative Arts in Australian Universities
Donna Lee Brien and Jen Webb- Quality University Teaching, Quality Education and Higher Education Reform in the People's Republic of China
Tingjun Cao- Delivering Quality Transnational Education: What Does the Student Experience Tell Us?
Iwona Miliszewska- Centring Students’ Bilingual Capabilities in Quality University Teaching: Bringing "Knowledge Detours" and "Zigzag Learning" in from the Margins
Michael Singh and Wei Guo- Mobilising "Double Knowing": Pedagogical Leadership for Internationalising Higher Education
Jinghe Han and Dacheng Zhao- "Are We Uncritical, Unfocused, Plagiarising Rote Learners?" Forming and Informing Argumentative Chinese Students Through Quality University Teaching
Michael Singh and Dongqing Fu
- Section Three: Technology
- Introduction Geoff Danaher
- Online Teaching in Universities and Management: Divided and Shaky Grounds for Change
Joanne Orlando- Changing University Learning and Teaching from the Outside in: The Role of Discussion Forums in Supporting Student Leadership in the STEPS External Preparatory Program
Geoff Danaher, Jenny McDougall, Phillipa Sturgess and Violeta Todorovic- Connecting Students to Changing Institutional Imaginaries: Online Innovations in Academic Support
Damian Sweeney, Tammi Jonas and Kathryn Boin- Evaluating Technology-based Learning: "High Tech" and "High Touch"
Joy Penman and Bronwyn Ellis- Dialogism and Social Computing: Academic Authorship in Cyberspace
Celia Thompson
- Bionotes
- Index
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