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Direct linkPollard, Vikki; Hains-Wesson, Rachael; Young, Karen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
If Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines in higher education are to retain students, there needs to be a shift towards teaching in more enriching and interesting ways. Creative teaching needs to become more prominent in STEM. This article presents a study that defines creative teaching in the STEM context and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Strauss, Pat – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
"New" vocational disciplines often struggle for acceptance in the academy. The marginalising of these disciplines impacts on their teaching and learning environment often to the detriment of staff and students. This study focuses both on the role academic writing plays in this marginalisation and how the teaching of such writing is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Vocational Education
Jääskelä, Päivikki; Häkkinen, Päivi; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Higher education calls for reform, but deeper knowledge about the prerequisites for teaching development and pedagogical change is missing. In this study, 51 university teachers' experiences of supportive or constraining factors in teaching development were investigated in the context of Finland's multidisciplinary network. The findings reveal…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Barriers, Performance Factors, Faculty Development
Ross, Jen; Sheail, Philippa – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Higher education research has overlooked online distance Masters students' experiences of independent research, and this is an important gap at a time when increasing numbers of taught postgraduate programmes are delivered online. This article discusses findings from interviews with eighteen graduates from four online Masters programmes. It…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Masters Theses, Online Courses
Singh, Gurmak; Hardaker, Glenn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Using Giddens' theory of structuration as a theoretical framework, this paper outlines how five prominent United Kingdom universities aimed to integrate top-down and bottom-up approaches to the adoption and diffusion of e-learning. The aim of this paper is to examine the major challenges that arise from the convergence of bottom-up perspectives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adoption (Ideas), Electronic Learning
Poverjuc, Oxana; Brooks, Val; Wray, David – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This article draws on the findings of a longitudinal case study, which investigated the writing experiences of five students who spoke English as an additional language (EAL). The major interest was in examining what it was like to be an EAL writer and what changes occurred in EAL students' perceptions of academic writing and of themselves as…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
