Assessment of student learning is commonly understood as a seemingly objective
measurement of learning outcomes. It is seen as fair that assessment targets students' …

The shift towards an ecological university may be the key to achieving greater levels of
social justice within higher education. This assumes that we could change the root metaphor …

What do meaningful connections in learning and teaching look like, and how might we foster
these? How might the concept of mattering be helpful for our understanding of higher …

The university-as-ecosystem concept provides a framework for the analysis of the dynamic
maintenance of sustainable pedagogies within the university. Application of Holling's …

The expansion of online, blended and hybrid programmes in higher education has been
well reported (Martin, Dennen, & Bonk, 2023). Universities globally strive to increase the …

Tim Fawns and Gill Aitken are Senior Lecturers in Clinical Education at the University of
Edinburgh. They have taught on the fully online MSc Clinical Education 1 with their …

This article presents an ecological frame for reflection on teaching at university. It is
suggested here that the process of professional reflection on practice can be better aligned …

The evolution of concept map** has benefitted from the robust theoretical basis provided
by Ausubelian learning theory. However, for concept map** to maintain its relevance and …

Many contemporary commentators present a damning account of the current state of higher
education, to the extent that our universities may be considered to be broken. This book …

In this article, we examine how thinking with affect theory offers fertility within higher
education studies to see and do teaching and learning differently. For many educators in …