Special: Engaging with Educational Research: Five Ideas from the Literature to Improve Student-Faculty Collaboration Anne Margaret Tierney (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK)
Day One: Wednesday, 21 July Conference Opening: Welcome: Jim Wilkinson, President, IUT (Harvard University) Keynote 1: Embedding Positive Education in University Teaching Deborah Hall (Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Malaysia) Contemporary debate proposes that adolescent growth extends to age 24. This in turn extends the window of opportunity for skills development, especially in cooperative activities that require […]
Greg Auhl,* Denise Wood, and Sally McCarthy, Division of Learning & Teaching, Charles Sturt University, Australia Abstract Developing quality programs in higher education, across international jurisdictions, is becoming more challenging as a variety of stakeholders demand greater input into curriculum development processes. These multiple stakeholders include professional bodies, governments, ‘consumers’ of higher education qualifications and […]
Saroj Bala* and Lisha Malhotra, Pearl Academy, India Abstract There is a danger of traditional crafts losing their value as the technology occupies more space in the Indian education system. How can traditional crafts be taught in innovative ways to make them attractive to the young generation? After all, this is the generation which has […]
Laura Ennis,* Information Services, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Abstract Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) are formal, time-bound, and selective communities that encourage collaborative enhancement of teaching and learning. Based on the model developed by Milton D. Cox (2004), the first FLC at Edinburgh Napier University was founded in 2018 intending to explore the ways in which […]
Elke Hemminger,* Department of Sociology/Social Work, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Michael Waltemathe, Department of Protestant Theology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Abstract A lack of science and technology awareness impairs students in the humanities and social sciences in their participation in social discourse about science and technology. However, students express the wish that innovative technology, science […]
Michael Kwanashie,* Department of Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria Helen Kwanashie, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria Abstract In an attempt to revamp the Adviser-Advisee Scheme at Ahmadu Bello University, a pilot study was conducted to unearth the challenges experienced by Faculty (advisers) and Students (advisees) operating the scheme, as well as […]
