Enhancing
Student-centred Learning
Edited by John Buswell and Nina Becket
These case studies are about successful approaches to enhancing student-centred learning, developing the theme of employability of the first title in the series and moving to consider lifelong learning and the development of independent, autonomous and self-empowered learners.
The revision of QAA Guidelines on PDP, the implications of the Burgess report and the need to prepare students for the demands of a changing, complex world give the book a particular contemporary significance.
The contributing academics offer perspectives on student-centred learning, PDP, innovative approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, and discuss the lessons they have learned through a practice or intervention which aimed to engage students and encourage them to take more responsibility for their learning.
This book was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST) and Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF) Networks. Hosted by Oxford Brookes University, HLST and BMAF are two of the 24 national Subject Centres which support and facilitate the sharing of good practice in enhancing the student learning experience in UK higher education.
Contents
Introduction
John Buswell
1 Transforming the student learning experience
A pedagogic model for everyday practice
Colin Beard Sheffield Hallam University
2 The Writing Project
‘Bridging the gap’ into undergraduate study
Susan Lea and Derry Corey University College Plymouth: St Mark & St John
3 Developing engagement in professional development planning
in higher education
Simon Cox Leeds Metropolitan University
4 Enhancing enterprise, entrepreneurship and employability through PDP
Will Bowen-Jones and Karen Bill University of Worcester
5 Learning about me as well as the subject:
meta-learning through the use of learning inventories
John Buswell and Angela Tomkins University of Gloucestershire
6 How SAPHE are your students?
Student awareness of personal finance in higher education
Pru Marriott Winchester Business School
7 Student engagement with feedback
Jacqueline Lynch University of Westminster
8 ‘Is that your final answer?
Encouraging student participation using a personal response system
Wendy Beekes
Lancaster University Management School
9 Using eportfolio on two versions of an employability skills module
Peter Robinson, Crispin Dale and Debra Wale University of Wolverhampton
10 From paper to eportfolio
Evolution of PDP support in a Psychology Department
Mark Moss Northumbria University
11 PDP – inspiring capability
Sarah Nixon & Caitlin Walker Liverpool John Moores University & Training Attention Ltd
12 Adherence and participation factors in personal development planning
Dominic Micklewright University of Essex
13 Stepping Stones 2HE
Fresh thinking for introducing PDP to freshers
Christine Keenan Bournemouth University
14 Enhancing student learning
Managing tensions in a large undergraduate module
Graham Baker and Robert French Bristol Business School, University of the West of England
15 Against the grain?
Introducing experiential and enquiry-based learning to final-year students
Louise Grisoni, Carol Jarvis, Margaret Page Bristol Business School, University of the West of England
16 Embedding PDP in an academic subject
Jacqui Gush Bournemouth University
17 To embed or not to embed?
The embedding of PDP in the curriculum
Dorota Ujma, Mark Atlay, Petia Petrova University of Bedfordshire
18 Space to learn?
Learning environments in higher education
Colin Beard Sheffield Hallam University
Index
The editors
John Buswell is principal lecturer in the Department of Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Gloucestershire and chair of the ISPAL Professional Development Board. He is also Liaison Officer for Leisure for the HE Academy Subject Centre for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism, based at Oxford Brookes University. He is a member of the Open University Validation and Awards Committees. His research interests and publications are in pedagogy and in the area of service quality in leisure, tourism and sport.
Nina Becket is currently lecturing in hospitality and tourism management in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University and is the former assistant director of the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Subject Network.
£25.00 (paperback) 2009 234x156mm 208pp ISBN 978-1-903152-24-9
