Innovating in Higher Education : Teaching, Learning and Institutional Cultures

by Hannan, Andrew; Silver, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780335205370
• ISBN10: 0335205372
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Innovations in teaching and learning methods in higher education are changing rapidly. Traditional lectures are being replaced by more student-centered and project-based methods, often involving the use of information and communication technology. Based on qualitative research in fifteen UK universities, this book tells the stories of those involved in such changes.

Author Biography

Andrew Hannan is Reader in Education and Research Coordinator of the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of Plymouth.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: `Innovation'	1	(13)
Researching Innovation	14	(6)
The Experience of Innovators	20	(13)
The Institutions: Structures, Roles and Change	33	(30)
Teaching and Learning	63	(13)
The Culture of Institutions	76	(20)
Enabling and Inhibiting	96	(20)
The Competitors	116	(22)
Challenges of Innovation	138	(13)
Appendix A: Types of Innovation and Frequency of Occurrence amongst those Interviewed in Phase One	151	(1)
Appendix B: Institutions Visited	152	(1)
Appendix C: Subject Identity of those Interviewed (Phase One)	153	(1)
Appendix D: The Sampling Procedure for Phase One of the Study	154	(2)
Appendix E: Interview Schedules	156	(3)
Appendix F: Ethics Protocols	159	(3)
Bibliography	162	(8)
Index	170