Full Description
This book shares exemplary teaching and learning practices from the tertiary sector, and addresses important issues concerning quality, scholarship and innovation in teaching and learning in tertiary settings. It takes on classic issues regarding curricula, technologies and assessment, but approaches them from novel perspectives and using a variety of methodological approaches. Its chapters explore innovative and cutting-edge ideas in tertiary education. Readers will be both challenged and inspired to investigate the ideas discussed further.
Contents
Part I Reconstructing the Digital Learning Environment.- 1 Reconstructing the Digital Learning Environment.- 2 Embedding Media Richness in Online Assessment Feedback: Effects of Multimedia Delivery and Paralinguistic Digital Cues on Social Presence and Student Engagement.- 3 Disruptive Authentic Assessments: Engaging Business Students in Flow Experience with Digital Technologies.- 4 Successful Factors for Adoption of Synchronous Tools in Online Teaching at Scale.- Part II Shifting the Curriculum.- 5 Shifting the Curriculum.- 6 From Small Things: Building Cross Disciplinary, Transformative Learning Experiences through a Global Mobility for Higher Education Students.- 7 Using an Applied Curriculum Project Connect Theory and Practice in Teacher Education.- 8 Exploratory Variations in Course Structure Consistency Within the Learning Management System.- 9 Enabling Holistic Curriculum Transformation by Using 'Thoughtfully' Designed Blended Activities and Resources.- Part III Reflections on Change.- 10 Reflections on Change.- 11 Speaking Together: Reflections on Reconciliation, Yarning Circles and Signature Pedagogies.- 12 My First Six Months: Students' Perceptions of Learner-Centred Design Studios.- Part IV Preparing for the World of Work.- 13 Preparing for the World of Work.- 14 Graduates: The Future of Work, Soft Skills, and the Increasing Important of Careers Education at RMIT University.- 15 External Competitions and Work Integrated Learning: A Creative Industries Perspective from Vietnam.- 16 Future System Lab: A Landscape Architectural Teaching Model to Enable the Development of Practices that can Thrive in Times of Disruption.- Part V Beyond Disruption.- 17 Beyond Disruption.
