The Future of Higher Education Policy, Pedagogy and the Student Experience [Hardcover]

The Future of Higher Education explores policy, pedagogy and the student experience at a conceptual level, enabling university staff to place their own work within a wider theoretical framework and to develop their own understandings of some of the key controversies that surround teaching and learning in higher education.

The book is divided into three parts:

Part 1explores key policies that have shaped higher education since the late twentieth century, and traces the impact that these policies have had on the extent and nature of higher education provision.

Part 2explores how these emerging policies, and the need for higher education institutions to respond to them, have produced a radical re-evaluation of what higher education is and how it might best be delivered at an institutional level.

Part 3gives consideration to pedagogy and the student experience in contemporary higher education.

The Future of Higher Education will be invaluable to all university staff, especially those following the PGCertHE and other programmes within institutional CPD frameworks. It will also be of interest to researchers in this field.

1 Introduction - Universities in Transition: themes in higher education policyHoward Stevenson and Les Bell Part One: The Policy Context (Editor: Howard Stevenson) 2 Academic Freedom: essential liberty or extravagant luxury? Terence Karran 3 Learning Landscapes: designing a classroom of the future Mike Neary and Angela Thody 4 Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: examining dissonance and instructional strategy Terfot Ngwana Part Two: Pedagogy and the Institutional Context (Editor: Les Bell) 5 Educational Development Units: the challenge of quality enhancement in a changing environment Julian Beckton 6 Continuing Professional Development in Higher Education: tensions and debates in a changing environment Karin Crawford 7 Technology-Enhanced Learning: a new digls