Postgraduate Module Descriptor


EFPM902: Creating Effective Learning in Higher Education

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Reading List: http://lists.exeter.ac.uk/lists/7E8A44F8-7BE6-4EC3-24AD-308807E1A9B1.html

Barnett, R. (2000) Realizing the University in an age of supercomplexity Buckingham: The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press (especially Chapter 12, ‘Teaching for a supercomplex world’).

Becher, T and Trowler, P (2001) Academic tribes and territories: intellectual enquiry and the culture of disciplines (2nd ed.) Buckingham: The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press

Biggs, J. (2003) Teaching for quality learning at university (2nd ed.). Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Brookfield, S.(1995) Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, San Francisco: Jossey:Bass Fry, H., Ketteridge, S. & Marshall S. (eds.) (2003) A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2nd edition. London: Kogan Page.

Gosling, D and Mason O'Connor, K. (2009) Beyond the Peer Observation of Teaching, SEDA Paper 124, London: SEDA

Kreber, C. (ed.) (2009) The University and its Disciplines: Teaching and Learning Within and Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries. New York: Routledge

Jackson, N., Oliver, M., Shaw, M. and Oliver, M. (eds.) (2006) Developing Creativity in Higher Education: The Imaginative Curriculum. Oxford: Routledge

Knight, P. and Yorke, M. (2003) Assessment, Employability and Learning, Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press.

Meyer, J. and Land, R. (2003) Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines Occasional Report 4; Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project, University of Edinburgh.

Morss, K. and Murray, R. (2005) Teaching at university: a guide for postgraduates and researchers. London: Sage

Rowland, S. (2006) The Enquiring University: Compliance and Contestation in Higher Education. Buckingham: McGraw Hill

Rowland, S. (2000) The Enquiring University Teacher. Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press. Ramsden, P. (2003) Learning to Teach in Higher Education (2nd edn). London: Routledge/ Falmer

Thompson, J. (2000) Stretching the Academy: the politics and practice of widening participation in Higher Education, Leicester: NIACE.

Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice: learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.