Learning development in higher education /
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
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| Description: | xi, 270 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Universities into the 21st century Universities into the 21st century. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8291995 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors' Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- Section A. Defining Learning Development
- 1. What is Learning Development?
- 2. Learning Development in Higher Education: Community of Practice or Profession?
- 3. Is Learning Development 'Part of the Problem'?
- 4. Raising the Student Voice: Learning Development as Socio-political Practice
- Section B. Supporting Students in Transition
- 5. A Personal Development Planning Perspective on Supporting Student Transition into Higher Education
- 6. Learning Developers Supporting Early Student Transition
- 7. The Case for One-to-One Academic Advice for Students
- 8. The Assignment Success Programme
- 9. Enabling Transitions through Inclusive Practice
- Section C. Developing Effective Academic Practice
- 10. Building Student Confidence in Mathematics and Numeracy
- 11. Negotiating and Nurturing: Challenging Staff and Student Perspectives of Academic Writing
- 12. Learning Resources that Students will Use: Producing a Web-based Multimedia Resource to Improve Group and Teamwork Skills
- 13. The Student as Producer: Learning by Doing Research
- 14. Visualising Learning
- Section D. Students and technology
- 15. When Worlds Collide: the Paradox of Learning Development, E-learning and the 21st-Century University
- 16. Defining and Supporting the New Digital Students
- 17. Friend or Foe? The Impact of New Technologies on Student Time Management at University
- Section E. Looking Into the future
- 18. Looking Back and Looking Into the Future
- 19. Learning Development: Work in Progress
- Index
