This paper is the final report on this research project as required by the ASCILITE research grant conditions and outlines the research project background, rationale and methodology, and discusses results and conclusions. The project initiated the process of collegial development of a theoretically informed framework which enabled lecturers to retrospectively analyse what they did to create an ...

Communication and effective information exchange within technology has become a crucial part of delivering knowledge to students during the learning process. It enables better understanding, builds trust and respect, and increases the sharing of knowledge between students. This paper examines the communication between undergraduate students and their lecturers during the traditional lecture and...

This research examines the utilisation of part-time lecturers in the further education (FE) sector and considers the impact that has on the quality of service delivery. The research has used qualitative and quantitative methods in a longitudinal study of a sample of 42 sessional lecturers drawn from colleges within the East Midlands. The article explores changes within the sector providing a li...

The last three years have seen considerable changes in the process of public health medicine (PHM) training in the UK. Reforms following the Calman report have ensured the development of training programmes with defined objectives, assessment and duration. These changes have been broadly welcomed, but raise challenges for academic training where there has been more flexibility in the past. Betw...

Designing the learning materials and WebCT sites for delivery of a new International Online Law Masters program turned out to be the easy part of the design brief, as many of the lecturers and students involved in this program are new to online delivery of course materials and require a great deal of ongoing support. This poster outlines a range of strategies and processes that have been design...

This study was conducted to find out how lecturers in developing countries perceive the use of Open Educational Resources (OER). A group of teachers at the Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica (Havana, Cuba) participated in a course about the use of Learning Management Systems that only used OER. After they had been introduced to the concept t...

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of physical activity and dietary fat intake on Body Mass Index (BMI) of lecturers within a higher learning institutionalized setting. The study adopted a Cross-sectional Correlational Design and included 120 lecturers selected proportionately by simple random sampling techniques from a population of 600 lecturers. Data was collected using...

Incorporating new media technologies that enable mobile learning to be part of educational practice poses challenges to those used to teaching in a traditional classroom environment. In this article three lecturers and a learning advisor from a New Zealand university reflect on their experiences in the progressive redesign of a Bachelor of Arts degree paper. Students were tasked with using mobi...