Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Standpoints

Claus Nygaard, John Branch, Clive Holtham, Claus Nygaard, John Branch, Clive Holtham

• Publisher: Libri Publishing
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781907471704
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

The authors know from practice that students todayare in many ways different from students in the past. Some may say they have ashorter attention span. Others may say they are more focused. Some may arguethat they waste their time on the Internet during lectures. Others may arguethat, as digital natives, they are using the technology in ways we have notexperienced before. Such arguments will continue to thrive in theuniversity sector as it tries to develop and reinvent itself to cope with thechange from the industrial era to the digital era. For the editors of this book, theyfind this development of the university sector to be a fascinating challenge.Their argument is that this process will succeed only if student learning isseen as the nexus of both curriculum design and teaching practices. Each ofthese thirteen chapters shows a possible way forward in that respect. Aseditors, they have no doubt that the cases on collaboration, design, identityand transformation will serve as inspiration for individual teachers, as wellas faculty groups, striving to take their own university teaching to the nextlevel.