How can university teachers improve the quality of student learning? Michael Prosser and Keith Trigwell argue that the answer lies in determining how students perceive their learning situations. This text outlines the principles underlying successful teaching and learning in
Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the 21st century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other desig…
If you think academia is a prestigious place of serious, erudite professors, think again. Academia Obscura is a glimpse behind closed study doors -- welcome to the eccentric and slightly unhinged world of academia. Leave your tweed jacket by the door. Step inside the ivory tower…
"Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change; change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own communities and those service. The nature of time in all the contemporary work on the …
Collected texts written by Camila Vallejo -- president of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Unviersidad de Chile -- in 2011, including opinion articles and an unedited interview with Vallejo by Francisco Herreros, a Chilean journalist. Subjects include the discrepancies within…
The volume consists of twelve classroom studies concerned with the implementation of learner autonomy in English classes. The individual studies range from primary school level to university level. They include studies on multi-media dictionary work, reading logs, peer correctio…