Changing University Learning and Teaching
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Changing University Learning and Teaching

Engaging and Mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology

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Edited by Jeanne McConachie, Michael Singh, Patrick Alan Danaher, Fons Nouwens, and Geoff Danaher.
ISBN: 978-1921214-38-7 A5 395pp
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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':

  • as an adjective, to map and understand how learning and teaching in higher education are continuously adapting and mutating in response to multiple pressures and stimuli;
  • as a gerund, to record and interrogate the ongoing efforts by the contributing authors and many others to maximise the transformative potential of that learning and teaching.

The book focuses on three key elements of efforts to change university learning and teaching more sustainably and systematically:

  • leadership
  • quality
  • technology.

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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Contributions

  • 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
  1. 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
  2. "How We Do Things Around Here": Educational Change and Effective Faculty Leadership in Post-Blair Britain
    Chris Robertson and Robyn Cox
  3. Getting People Involved: Leadership for Change as an Occupation Professionalises
    Catherine Layton, Anna Corbo Crehan and Matthew Campbell
  4. 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
  1. Students’ Perceptions of a Quality Preparatory Program at an Australian Regional University: Success Through Changing Worldviews
    Jeanne McConachie, Karen Seary and Jenny Simpson
  2. 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
  3. Critical Theory, Teacher Quality and the Alternative Practicum
    Loshini Naidoo
  4. Mathematics for Initial Teacher Education Students (MITES): The Effect of Competence Classes on Self-efficacy
    Beverley Moriarty
  5. Envisioning Change: Quality and Creative Arts in Australian Universities
    Donna Lee Brien and Jen Webb
  6. Quality University Teaching, Quality Education and Higher Education Reform in the People's Republic of China
    Tingjun Cao
  7. Delivering Quality Transnational Education: What Does the Student Experience Tell Us?
    Iwona Miliszewska
  8. Centring Students’ Bilingual Capabilities in Quality University Teaching: Bringing "Knowledge Detours" and "Zigzag Learning" in from the Margins
    Michael Singh and Wei Guo
  9. Mobilising "Double Knowing": Pedagogical Leadership for Internationalising Higher Education
    Jinghe Han and Dacheng Zhao
  10. "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
  1. Online Teaching in Universities and Management: Divided and Shaky Grounds for Change
    Joanne Orlando
  2. 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
  3. Connecting Students to Changing Institutional Imaginaries: Online Innovations in Academic Support
    Damian Sweeney, Tammi Jonas and Kathryn Boin
  4. Evaluating Technology-based Learning: "High Tech" and "High Touch"
    Joy Penman and Bronwyn Ellis
  5. Dialogism and Social Computing: Academic Authorship in Cyberspace
    Celia Thompson
  • Bionotes
  • Index

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