Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Forward by Professor Sir Bob Burgess Part 1 The current world of teaching and learning in higher education 1. A user's guide 2. UK institutional teaching contexts: polies and practice 3. UK Higher Education: an International context 4. Success as a university teacher Part 2 Learning, Teaching and Supervising in Higher Education 5. Student learning 6. Describing what students should learn 7. Lecturing, working with groups, and providing individual support 8. Assessing assessment: new developments in assessment design, feedback practices and marking in higher education 9. Feedback to and from students: building an ethos of student and staff engagement in teaching and learning 10. Effective online teaching and learning 11. Challenging students: enabling inclusive learning 12. Encouraging independent learning 13. Supervising research degrees 14. Maximising student learning gain: some personal reflections Part 3 Teaching and learning in the disciplines 15. The experimental sciences 16. Mathematics and statistics 17. Engineering 18. Dance, drama and music 19. Social sciences 20. Modern languages 21. Law 22. Business and management 23. Quantitative methods in the social sciences 24. Art, design and media 25. Sport-related subjects 26. Nursing, health and social care 27. Medicine and dentistry Glossary Index

Heather Fry is Director (Education, Participation and Students) at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), UK. Steve Ketteridge is the former Director of the Learning Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Stephanie Marshall is Chief Executive of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK.