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Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Transgressing Boundaries

  • Bridges approaches to teaching and learning across the boundaries of different cultures, disciplines and institutions
  • Overcomes once considered impenetrable and inherited boundaries in higher education
  • Presents teaching and learning as a collaborative and co-constructed process
  • Covers the cognitive, performative, and affective goals of students’ learning in an unique way
  • Represents a broad range of disciplines, fields and institutional types from all over the world offering a wide variety of settings
  • Builds on the rich expertise and background of the contributors to present some of the most creative and effective ways to improve student learning
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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction: Teaching and Learning at the Crossroads

    • Prudence Layne, Peter Lake
    Pages 1-10
  3. Transforming the ‘Traditional’ in Higher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Transforming Higher Education Institutions

      • Prudence Layne
      Pages 27-45
    3. Digital Storytelling in Industrial Design

      • Veronica Barnes, Daniela Gachago, Eunice Ivala
      Pages 47-69
  4. Transgressing Boundaries Using Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
    2. The Course as Container: Distributed Learning and the MOOC

      • Sean Michael Morris, Jesse Stommel
      Pages 167-180
    3. Conflict in Online Learning

      • David Mathew
      Pages 207-217
  5. Restructuring Delivery, Formats and Modes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
    2. What’s an Instructor to Do?

      • Royce Ann Collins
      Pages 221-235
    3. Does Duration Matter? A Case Study

      • Peter Lake
      Pages 237-253

About this book

This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instructors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To maximize their students’ learning, this work argues that institutions are compelled to innovate their policies and instructors must be collaborative and creative in their practices in response to students’ growing demands, needs, challenges to their learning, and the shifting terrain of a rapidly globalizing world.

The text explores the idiosyncrasies and challenges that drive innovation across particular cultures, disciplines and institutions. It suggests that the responses to these drivers offer some universal and compatible lessons that not only optimize teaching and learning, but also transgress institutional, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries in higher education. The contributors to this collection work in the United States, the United Kingdom, Africa, Asia, Australia, Scandinavia and the Middle East. They represent a broad range of disciplines, fields and institutional types. They teach in varied contexts, durations, delivery modes, and formats, including online, study abroad, blended, accelerated, condensed, intensive and mortar-and-brick settings. Their higher education students are equally as diverse, in age, cultural backgrounds and needs, but willingly lend their voices and experiences to their instructors’ study of teaching and learning in their particular contexts.

This book harnesses the rich diversities and range our contributors represent and shares the results of their expertise, research, and assessments of some of the most creative and effective ways to improve student learning in the face of stagnant practices, limited resources, and other deficiencies that instructors and students face inhigher education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Elon University, Elon, USA

    Prudence C. Layne

  • Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Peter Lake

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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