Theme 2 Project 4
| Project
title |
Enhancing
Teaching-Learning environments in undergraduate courses (ETL Project) |
|
Lead
researchers |
Professor
Noel Entwistle & Professor
Dai Hounsell (Higher & Community Education,
School of Education) University of Edinburgh |
|
Other
researchers |
Professor
Erik Meyer, Dr Charles Anderson, Dr Kate Day, Professor Ray Land,
Dr Velda McCune |
|
Keywords |
Learning
environments; high-quality learning; constructive alignment |
|
Abstract |
This
project has been designed to support 25 UK higher education departments,
involved in undergraduate teaching, in thinking about new ways of
encouraging high quality learning. The collaborative research will
be underpinned by research into the quality of student learning and
how it is influenced, not just by teaching and assessment, but by
the whole teaching-learning environment. It is intended to focus
on five contrasting subject areas: biological sciences, economics,
engineering, history and media and communications. The collaborating
institutions will be clustered around three geographical areas -
Edinburgh, Durham and Coventry. A range of courses or modules will
be identified in each subject area and the researchers will work
closely with each course team to analyse learning aims and outcomes
in relation to their student intake. The focus of the study will
be on the constructive alignment between aims and the whole teaching-learning
environment - in other words, on the match between the course teams'
intentions and students' everyday learning experiences. Ways of improving
provision will be explored with course teams, based on conceptual
frameworks being developed through the research, and tailored to
the specific subject areas. The effects of the changes introduced
will be investigated and reviewed with the course teams involved.
Ways of managing change effectively will be systematically identified
and widely discussed, prior to extensive dissemination. For further
details, see the project web pages at www.ed.ac.uk/etl.
. |
|
Publications |
A
number of occasional reports and conference papers, available from
the project website.
|
|
Start
/end date |
2000
- 2005 |
|
Funder
/amount |
UK
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) / £841,751 |
|
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