Emerging issues in the practice of University Learning and Teaching was written by EDIN members and originally published in 2005 by AISHE as part of the AISHE Readings series.

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Biographical Notes 

Introduction Chapter
Writers’ Week: A vehicle for collaborative writing among educational developers
Sarah Moore, Geraldine O’Neill and Barry McMullin

PART 1: Working in the changing world of learning and teaching in higher education
The Scholarship of Teaching and its Implications for Practice
Marian MacCarthy and Bettie Higgs

It Works in Practice but Will it Work in Theory? The theoretical underpinnings of pedagogy
Orison Carlile and Anne Jordan

PART 2: Moving the focus from teaching to learning
Student-Centred Learning: What does it mean for students and lecturers?
Geraldine O’Neill and Tim McMahon

Active Learning – From Lecture Theatre to Field-Work
Bettie Higgs and Marian McCarthy

Teaching and Learning Activities: Expanding the repertoire to support student learning
Saranne Magennis and Alison Farrell

What is Problem-Based Learning?
Terry Barrett

Putting the Learning back into Technology
Barry McMullin

Do you know what your students are learning? (And do you care?)
Diana Kelly

Collaborative Project-Based Learning and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: A consideration of learner-focused strategies
Roisin Donnelly and Marian Fitzmaurice

Designing Modules for Learning
Roisin Donnelly and Marian Fitzmaurice

PART 3: Developing and growing as a University teacher

New Trends in Academic Staff Development: Reflective journals, teaching portfolios, accreditation and professional development
Iain MacLaren

What Institutional Research can do to Support the Individual Academic
Margaret O’Flanagan

Finding Information for your Teaching and Research Work in Teaching and Learning
Helen Fallon

A Punitive Bureaucratic Tool or Valuable Resource? Using student evaluations to enhance your teaching
Sarah Moore and Nyiel Kuol

The Write Approach: Integrating writing activities into your teaching
Ciara O’Farrell

Virtually Effective: the measure of a learning environment
David Jennings

You can also download the full PDF of Emerging Issues I here:
Emerging Issues I [PDF]

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