Future Partners and Policy
This track aims to look at how we make the most of future partnerships and policy and the technology associated with them.
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SQW Ltd and Taylor Nelson Sofres
This HEFCE-commissioned study is concerned with flexibility in the timing and pace of learning.
Dai Hounsell; Monika Klampfleitner; Mark Huxham; Karen Thomson; Sheena Blair
This analytical review has been undertaken for the HEA on the literature on innovative assessment methods and practices across the disciplines.
Maggi Savin-Baden; Lorraine McFarland; John Savin-Baden
This review focuses on key themes in the literature for influencing practices about teaching and learning in higher education.
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Toronto, 23/07/2010 - 27/07/2010
Brighton, 21/07/2010 - 23/07/2010
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For more information on the work the Academy does relating to Open Educational Resources, please see the OER Programme pages on the HEA website.
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Yuan L; MacNeill S; Kraan W
This JISC briefing paper provides the background to the current development of and future trends around OER aimed at adding to our understanding, stimulating ongoing debate among the JISC community and developing a research agenda.
Beggan, A.
During the summer of 2009, the BERLiN project team at The University Of Nottingham explored the barriers preventing the adoption of OER at the University and strategies for overcoming them.
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The focus of the 2010 European Conference is "Sharing Great Ideas".
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Jorum provides access to free learning and teaching resources, created and contributed by teaching staff from UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Jorum offers two collections - JorumOpen and JorumUK, containing a wide variety of resources, including open educational resources that are freely available to all.
Legal Guidance for ICT Use in Education, Research and External Engagement
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For more information on the work the Academy does relating to postgraduate study, please see the postgraduate pages on the HEA website.
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; summary by Hodsdon L
This is an EvidenceNet summary of the 2010 BIS review, led by Adrian Smith, of UK postgraduate education.
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For more information on the work the Academy does relating to partnerships with business and employers, please see the employer engagement pages on the HEA website.
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Arlett C and Dales R (2008)
The Engage project brought together 20 partners from the pre-existing engineering network. This report describes the activities of four working groups formed as part of the project.
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network (2008)
This is a case study of a module run at Westminster Kingsway College which aims to improve employability of undergraduate students and invlove employers in the assessment process.
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This report considers issues surrounding the honours degree classification system, which measures a student's performance on an undergraduate honours degree programme.
Burgess Group; Laura Hodsdon
This is an EvidenceNet summary of the 2007 report by the Measuring and Recording Student Achievement Steering Group - the 'Burgess Group' - for the UK higher education sector on measuring and recording student achievement.
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For more information on the work the Academy does relating to Education for Sustainable Development, please see the ESD Project pages on the HEA website.
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Gerald Dawe, Rolf Jucker, Stephen Martin
This HEA report is the culmination of a six-month investigation into how different subject disciplines taught within the higher education system are contributing to creating sustainability literate graduates.
Cotton D, Bailey I, Warren M & Bissell S
Based on in-depth interviews with lecturers at a case-study university, this article explores reasons for the slow pace of change, in particular how constraining variables (such as class size, patchy managerial support, perceived irrelevance to some disciplines, and conflict with prevalent higher education pedagogies) inhibit the widespread use of the holistic, interdisciplinary, transformative learning approaches advocated by theorists.
Rifca Hashimshony; Jacov Haina
Analyzes societal trends that are affecting the mission of universities, and the impact of those trends on their institutional and spatial structures.
Carolyn Roberts; Jane Roberts
This online book contains 37 chapters exploring different aspects of sustainability within the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum at the University of Gloucestershire.
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University of Bradford, 15/07/2010 - 16/07/2010
Gothenburg, 19/09/2010 - 22/09/2010
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The Ecoversity Programme at the University of Bradford aims to embed the principles and practice of sustainable development across the entire institution by getting people in involved, taking the lead on issues, and encouraging and making it easier for people to adopt sustainable behaviours and lifestyles.
An RCE is a network of existing formal, non-formal and informal education organisations, mobilised to deliver education for sustainable development (ESD) to local and regional communities
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; summary by Laura Hodsdon
This is an EvidenceNet summary of the 2009 document that sets out the Government's framework for higher education that comprises its vision for UK higher education of the future.
Brian Spittle; T. Acland; J. Samuel; D. Saunders; J. Storan
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