What constitutes high quality higher education pedagogical research?

What constitutes evidence in HIV/AIDS education?

It is clear that many sources of evidence have contributed to our grasp of what does and does not work in HIV/AIDS education. Despite this, there has recently been a distinct move to narrow the evidence of success in this field to experimental and comparative work, with randomized controlled trials positioned as the 'gold standard'. Here we take up the question of what constitutes evidence in H...

Forum What Constitutes Good ICTD Research ?

The emerging aeld of research that examines the link between information and communication technology and socioeconomic development (ICTD) has been carried forward by researchers mapping methods from their home disciplines onto this new terrain. With this journal logging six years of history (Best & Bar, 2003) and with the third International Conference on Information and Communication Technolo...

Pedagogical Models for Podcasts in Higher Education

This paper reports work-in-progress of a UK national study called IMPALA investigating the impact of podcasting on student learning in higher education. It presents an outline of the project implementation, initial perspectives from the pilot study and evolving models for using podcasts for specific pedagogical purposes. Data from the Semester 1 podcasts are being analysed and results will be r...

Teaching Quality in Higher Education: Literature Review and Qualitative Research

Research In Progress : Integrating Pedagogical Technologies Into Uk Higher Education : Conceptual Foundations

The use of software applications to develop and present course material via the internet has raised questions as to how far 'on-line learning' should be integrated into the academic programmes of study provided by higher education institutes. Responses to the opportunities presented by on-line learning in the UK have broadly fallen into three categories: individual departmental initiatives to u...