Full Description
Flexibility has long been a feature of the delivery of learning in higher education, particularly with the rise in importance of technology in giving learners greater choice over when, where and how they engage in learning. Recent analysis has sought to look beyond its significance in learning delivery to its value as a personal attribute of both learners and educators. Flexibility is now a key feature of debates addressing the role of universities in producing graduates with the capability to become change agents in increasingly dynamic workplaces and the wider world.
Flexibility and Pedagogy in Higher Education explores flexibility in learning in the context of online learning communities, in relation to the delivery of learning and as a means of promoting the development of flexibility as a personal attribute. Essays draw on examples involving students from foundation up to postgraduate level in curricular and co-curricular settings.
The essays collected in this volume examine the practical application of flexibility in learning through the use of online learning communities. It provides best practice examples for educators looking to use innovative pedagogies to develop flexible learning experiences, thereby building on recent studies on the place of flexibility in the future development of higher education.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chris Dennis, Ruth Matheson and Sue Tangney
1. Bend Me, Shape Me: Flexible Pedagogies to Widen Participation and Deliver on Social Justice
John Butcher and Liz Marr
2. Promoting Flexible Learning through Embedded, Online Study Skills Support
Leila Griffiths
3. Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Coalescing Digital and Physical Learning Spaces in Temporary Online Learning Communities
Chris Little and Matthew Street
4. Enhancing the Student Experience: Examples of Joint Student-Staff Partnerships to Create and Embed Online Peer Networks within Programmes of Study
Nicola Poole and Sophie Leslie
5. A Classroom without Walls: Academic and Student Nurses Co-Curating Twitter in Partnership
Moira McLoughlin and Wendy Sinclair
6. Shadow Modules and Student-Led Online Learning Communities: Supporting Learning, Engagement, and Student Empowerment within, and across, Institutions in Higher Education
Sheila L. Amici-Dargan, Amber M. Moorcroft and Stephen M. Rutherford
7. Youth Justice Live!: Flexible Pedagogies in an Online/Offline Community of Practice
Sue Bond-Taylor and Ceryl Teleri Davies
8. Opening the Door to the Virtual School: Enhancing Student Engagement through Online Learning Communities
Sharon Smith and Ruth Hewston
9. Academic Support Online: Developing an Integrated Academic Support Environment at the University of the Arts London
Graham Barton and Alex Lumley
10. Commonplace: A Student-Led Survival Guide to Support Transitions and Belonging at University of the Arts London (UAL)
Siobhan Clay and Paul Tabak
11. Flexible Socialisation and the Use of Twitter by a University Library: Exploring the Role of Social Media in Co-Curricular Settings As a Way of Fostering the Socialisation of Students into an Academic Community
Chris Dennis, Stuart Abbott and Rob Sell
12. The Student Hub Live: The Open University's Solution to Facilitating the Development of an Academic Community in Distance Learning through Collaborative Online Interaction
Karen Foley
13. Online Learning Communities and Flexibility in Learning
Chris Dennis
Index
