A Handbook for Teaching and Learning

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research and scholarship, and academic management. Against these contexts, the book focuses on developing professional academic skills for teaching. Dealing with the rapid expansion of the use of technology in higher education and widening student diversity, this fully updated and expanded edition includes new material on, for example, e-learning, lecturing to large groups, formative and summative assessment, and supervising research students.

Part 1 examines teaching and supervising in higher education, focusing on a range of approaches and contexts.

Part 2 examines teaching in discipline-specific areas and includes new chapters on engineering, economics, law, and the creative and performing arts.

Part 3 considers approaches to demonstrating and enhancing practice. Written to support the excellence in teaching required to bring about learning of the highest quality, this will be essential reading for all new lecturers, particularly anyone taking an accredited course in teaching and learning in higher education, as well as all those experienced lecturers who wish to improve their teaching. Those working in adult learning and education development will also find it a particularly useful resource.

Heather Fry is the founding Head of the Centre for Educational Development at Imperial College London.

Steve Ketteridge is Director of Educational and Staff Development at Queen Mary, University of London.

Stephanie Marshall is Director of Programmes at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and is currently Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London.

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Enhancing Academic Practice

Third edition

Edited by Heather Fry Steve Ketteridge Stephanie Marshall

First edition published 1999 Second edition published 2003 by Routledge This edition published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education : enhancing academic practice / [edited by] Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge, Stephanie Marshall.?3rd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. College teaching?Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. College teachers. 3. Lecture method in teaching. I. Fry, Heather. II. Ketteridge, Steve. III. Marshall, Stephanie. IV. Title: Teaching and learning in higher education. LB2331.H3145 2008 378,125?dc22 2008009873

ISBN 0-203-89141-4 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 10: 0?415?43463?7 (hbk) ISBN 10: 0?415?43464?5 (pbk) ISBN 10: 0?203?89141?4 (ebk)

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Contents

List of illustrations

viii

Notes on contributors

x

Acknowledgements

xvii

Foreword

xviii

Part 1 Teaching, supervising and learning in higher education

1

1 A user's guide

3

Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge and Stephanie Marshall

2 Understanding student learning

8

Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge and Stephanie Marshall

3 Encouraging student motivation

27

Sherria L. Hoskins and Stephen E. Newstead

4 Planning teaching and learning: curriculum design and development

40

Lorraine Stefani

5 Lecturing to large groups

58

Ann Morton

6 Teaching and learning in small groups

72

Sandra Griffiths

7 E-learning ? an introduction

85

Sam Brenton

v

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8 Teaching and learning for employability: knowledge is not the only outcome 99 Pauline Kneale

9 Supporting student learning

113

David Gosling

10 Assessing student learning

132

Lin Norton

11 Supervising projects and dissertations

150

Stephanie Marshall

12 Supervising research students

166

Steve Ketteridge and Morag Shiach

13 Teaching quality, standards and enhancement

186

Judy McKimm

14 Evaluating courses and teaching

198

Dai Hounsell

Part 2 Teaching in the disciplines

213

15 Teaching in the disciplines

215

Denis Berthiaume

16 Key aspects of learning and teaching in experimental sciences

226

Ian Hughes and Tina Overton

17 Key aspects of teaching and learning in mathematics and statistics

246

Joe Kyle and Peter Kahn

18 Key aspects of teaching and learning in engineering

264

John Dickens and Carol Arlett

19 Key aspects of teaching and learning in computing science

282

Gerry McAllister and Sylvia Alexander

20 Key aspects of teaching and learning in arts, humanities and

social sciences

300

Philip W. Martin

 Contents vii

21 Key aspects of teaching and learning in languages

323

Carol Gray and John Klapper

22 Key aspects of teaching and learning in the visual arts

345

Alison Shreeve, Sh?n Wareing and Linda Drew

23 Key aspects of teaching and learning: enhancing learning in

legal education

363

Tracey Varnava and Julian Webb

24 Key aspects of teaching and learning in accounting, business

and management

382

Ursula Lucas and Peter Milford

25 Key aspects of teaching and learning in economics

405

Liz Barnett

26 Key aspects of teaching and learning in medicine and dentistry

424

Adam Feather and Heather Fry

27 Key aspects of teaching and learning in nursing and midwifery

449

Pam Parker and Della Freeth

Part 3 Enhancing personal practice

467

28 Enhancing personal practice: establishing teaching and

learning credentials

469

Heather Fry and Steve Ketteridge

29 Teaching excellence as a vehicle for career progression

485

Stephanie Marshall and Gus Pennington

Glossary

499

Index

513

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