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Stentoft, Diana – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Problem-based learning is often characterised as an approach encompassing interdisciplinary learning; however, little attention has been explicitly paid to what a claim of interdisciplinary problem-based learning means in practice. Even less attention has been given to address the consequences of interdisciplinary problem-based learning for…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Barriers, Problem Based Learning
Harrison, Laura M.; Risler, Laura – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2015
In nations facing austerity measures, students risk diminished quality in their higher education experiences. Universities function increasingly like corporations as they struggle to compensate for budget shortfalls caused by declining public support. As a result, students become positioned as consumers of a private commodity that exists to…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Commercialization, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Zepke, Nick – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article revisits the notion that to facilitate quality learning requires teachers in higher education to have pedagogical content knowledge. It constructs pedagogical content knowledge as a teaching and learning space that brings content and pedagogy together. On the content knowledge side, it suggests that threshold concepts, akin to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Quality, Learner Engagement
O'Brien, Mark – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article addresses a question for those seeking to deepen engagement with nontraditional students for strategies of widening participation in the higher education setting. The question is as follows: how can the academic subject be made more "open" to what the student (and therefore also the nontraditional student) can bring to it?…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Learner Engagement
Vlachopoulos, Panos; Cowan, John – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Much has been published in recent years about the desirable nature of facilitated interactions in online discussions for educational purposes. However, little has been reported about the roles that tutors actually adopt in real-life learning contexts, how these range between "tutoring", "managing" and "facilitating",…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Online Courses, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
Zepke, Nick; Leach, Linda – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Since the 1980s an extensive research literature has investigated how to improve student success in higher education focusing on student outcomes such as retention, completion and employability. A parallel research programme has focused on how students engage with their studies and what they, institutions and educators can do to enhance their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Academic Achievement, Teacher Student Relationship
Raver, Sharon A.; Maydosz, Ann S. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Since the advent of PowerPoint and course delivery programs like Blackboard, more instructors in higher education are providing students with outlines of their lectures and expecting students to supplement these with their own notes. Although some have found that instructor-provided notes appear to enhance student learning, others suggest that…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Education Courses, Scores, Lecture Method
Moizer, Jonathan; Lean, Jonathan; Towler, Michael; Abbey, Caroline – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2009
Based on a categorization of simulation and gaming barriers developed in a previous study, this work seeks to explore in greater depth the composition and nature of these obstacles. It examines the interrelationships between the barriers and the impact of other contextual factors in the pedagogic environment. A series of in-depth interviews were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Informal Education, Information Sources, Teaching Methods
Turney, C. S. M.; Robinson, D.; Lee, M.; Soutar, A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2009
Improvements in technology appear to provide an unprecedented opportunity to improve learning and teaching within the higher education system. At present, however, opinions are divided over the efficacy of such an approach and the extent to which technology should be embraced in teaching. Over a period of two years, we have developed a new…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
Montgomery, Tim – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2008
Managing the space in which learning takes place is subject to ongoing debate. Spatial management and movement can impact upon the construction of meaning within education and upon the dynamic of learning. It is suggested that there are now different learning goals and expectations and consequently a need for different learning environments. We…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Educational Environment, Spatial Ability, Motion
Valiente, Carolina – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2008
The literature on learning styles suggests that although the behaviour of some students may appear different from what is defined as a "high-quality learning process," their conduct does not demonstrate an "inferior" approach to learning. Furthermore, existing and emerging academic literature that associates learning theories…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Theories, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Young, Pat; Glogowska, Margaret; Lockyer, Lesley – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2007
Recent synthesizing work on the student retention literature suggests two divergent discourses. The first is a discourse of assimilation which locates the problem in individual students' circumstances or abilities. This is challenged by an emerging discourse of adaptation. The new discourse focuses on higher education itself, proposing fundamental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Holding Power, Higher Education, Interviews
Pidcock, Steve – Active Learning in Higher Education: The Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 2006
The introduction of subject benchmarking led to fears of increased external intervention in the activities of universities and a more restrictive view of institutional autonomy, accompanied by an undermining of the academic profession, particularly through the perceived threat of the introduction of a national curriculum for higher education. For…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Universities, Institutional Autonomy, Higher Education
Lindblom-ylanne, Sari; Pihlajamaki, Heikki; Kotkas, Toomas – Active Learning in Higher Education: The Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 2006
This study focuses on comparing the results of self-, peer- and teacher-assessment of student essays, as well as on exploring students' experiences of the self- and peer-assessment processes. Participants were 15 law students. The scoring matrix used in the study made assessment easy, according to both teachers and students alike. Self-assessment…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation, Essays
Toynton, Robert – Active Learning in Higher Education the Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 2005
For the mature student, the recognition and validation of prior knowledge, much of which may be tacit, is central to both confidence and further learning. From a theoretical stance the use of interdisciplinary study or applying interdisciplinary approaches within monodisciplinary study should benefit the learning of the mature student. Such…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Prior Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Lifelong Learning
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