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The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching (2024)
Journal Article
Rattray, J., Reimann, N., Dragas, T., Rajab, T., & Murray, M. (online). The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching. International Journal for Academic Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2024.2423157

This paper arose from the authors’ experience of facilitating collective reflection on higher education teaching using the ‘intercultural teaching process recall’ (iTPR) method. Facilitators’ contributions to the iTPR sessions were analysed empirical... Read More about The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching.

Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care (2024)
Journal Article
Ward, S., Dragas, T., Mazzoli Smith, L., Ross, K., & Miao, Z. (online). Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care. Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2394600

In this paper we identify the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) as a mode of pedagogy aligned with an ethics of care. We consider how DS, as summative assessment, may foreground care ethics such as attentiveness, responsiveness, and trust. Our interes... Read More about Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care.

Personal Development of Doctoral Students (2024)
Journal Article
Riby, D. M., & Rees, S. (2024). Personal Development of Doctoral Students. Encyclopedia, 4(2), 743-752. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4020047

Definition: Personal development refers to the process of increasing one’s self-awareness, associated increases of self-esteem, increasing skills, and fulfilling one’s aspirations. The current paper reflects on these elements within the doctoral jour... Read More about Personal Development of Doctoral Students.

Escape Rooms as Tools for Learning Through Failure (2024)
Journal Article
Rawlinson, R. E., & Whitton, N. (2024). Escape Rooms as Tools for Learning Through Failure. The Electronic Journal of eLearning, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.34190/ejel.21.7.3182

The increasingly neoliberal course of Higher Education is linked to rises in student anxiety around assessment and increased fear of the consequences of failure. Making mistakes is an inevitable part of any learning process (and of li... Read More about Escape Rooms as Tools for Learning Through Failure.

Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning (2024)
Journal Article
Therova, D., & McKay, A. (2024). Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 21-40. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.9

Mastering academic writing is one of the challenges frequently experienced by university students across all levels and disciplines. As writing remains one of the most common ways of demonstrating knowledge in university settings, developing an appro... Read More about Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning.

Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations. (2024)
Journal Article
Roger, M., & Nolan, S. (2024). Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.13

Welcome to the first edition of Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (ELTHE). ETLHE offers an opportunity for those involved in universitylearning and teaching to disseminate their practice. It aims to publish accounts of scho... Read More about Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations..

Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices (2024)
Journal Article
Zaher, A. (2024). Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.8

Academic advising is an essential element of a student’s experience and an integral part of a professor’s work. However, it does not always receive enough attention in higher education (HE) institutions even though it has proven to be crucial in enha... Read More about Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices.

Why Didn't the Pre-Arrival Intervention to Combat Maths Anxiety Work? (2023)
Journal Article
Mathias, J., & Staddon, R. V. (2023). Why Didn't the Pre-Arrival Intervention to Combat Maths Anxiety Work?. Journal of the Foundation Year Network, 6, 99-112

There has been a growing demand for advanced quantitative skills in UK workplaces in the last twenty years. In response to this, the foundation programme in this study mandates social science, business and biology students to complete a 30-credit mat... Read More about Why Didn't the Pre-Arrival Intervention to Combat Maths Anxiety Work?.

Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme (2023)
Journal Article
Therova, D., & McKay, A. (in press). Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme. Language Teaching Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688231221350

As an effective writing course should focus on disciplines and their unique characteristics, practitioners of English for academic purposes (EAP) are often faced with the challenge of addressing the different needs of learners from various fields of... Read More about Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme.