Heather Fry Steve Ketteridge - A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Fourth Edition)

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This entirely new edition of a very successful book focuses on developing professional academic skills for supporting and supervising student learning and effective teaching. It is built on the premise that the roles of those who teach in higher education are complex and multi-faceted. A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research, scholarship and academic management.

The new edition reflects and responds to the rapidly changing context of higher education and to current understanding of how to best support student learning. Drawing together a large number of expert authors, it continues to feature extensive use of case studies that show how successful teachers have implemented these ideas. It includes key topics such as student engagement and motivation, internationalisation, employability, inclusive strategies for teaching, effective use of technology and issues relating to postgraduate students and student retention.

of students, looking at the drivers of institutional behaviours and how to achieve success as a university teacher.

examines learning, teaching and supervising in higher education and includes chapters on working with diversity, encouraging independent learning and learning gain.

arts and humanities, social sciences and experimental sciences through to medicine and dentistry.

Written to support the excellence in teaching and learning design required to bring about student learning of the highest quality, this will be essential reading for all new lecturers, particularly anyone taking an accredited course in teaching and learning in higher education, as well as those experienced lecturers who wish to improve their teaching practice. Those working in adult learning and educational development will also find the book to be a particularly useful resource. In addition it will appeal to staff who support learning and teaching in various other roles.

Heather Fry is Director (Education, Participation and Students) at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), UK.

Steve Ketteridge is the former Director of the Learning Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Stephanie Marshall is Chief Executive of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK.

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Enhancing academic practice

Fourth edition

Edited by
Heather Fry
Steve Ketteridge
Stephanie Marshall

Fourth edition published 2015
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First edition published by Routledge 1999
Second edition published by Routledge 2003
Third edition published by Routledge 2009

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education : enhancing academicpractice / edited by Heather Fry, Steven Ketteridge, Stephanie Marshall. Fourthedition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. College teachingHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. College teachers. 3. Lecturemethod in teaching. I. Fry, Heather. II. Ketteridge, Steve. III. Marshall, Stephanie.IV. Title: Handbook for Teaching & learning in higher education.
LB2331.H3145 2014

ISBN: 978-0-415-70995-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-70996-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-76308-8 (ebk)

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Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge and Stephanie Marshall

Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge and Stephanie Marshall

Stephanie Marshall, Heather Fry and Steve Ketteridge

Steve Ketteridge, Heather Fry and Stephanie Marshall

Sue Mathieson

Chris Butcher

Ruth Ayres

Sue Bloxham

Camille B. Kandiko Howson

Sam Brenton

Veronica Bamber and Anna Jones

Martyn Kingsbury

Stan Taylor and Margaret Kiley

Graham Gibbs

Nathan Pike

Paola Iannone and Adrian Simpson

John Davies

Paul Kleiman

Fiona Stephen

Michael Kelly

Rebecca Huxley-Binns

Sarah Hamilton and Tim Stewart

Jonathan Parker

Roni Brown

Richard Winsley and Richard Tong

Julie Williams and Maria Joyce

Colin Lumsden and Lucie Byrne-Davis

Heather Fry is currently Director (Education, Participation and Students) at the Higher Education Funding Council for England. She joined HEFCE in 2008, initially as Head of Learning and Teaching. She has responsibility for HEFCE's work in learning and teaching, widening participation, student success and collective student interest. Before joining HEFCE she worked as an academic at various universities. She started her career in Nigeria and subsequently she worked at the Centre for Higher Education Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London, Queen Mary, University of London and Imperial College London where she established its first Certificate in Learning and Teaching. She has published and researched extensively in higher education policy and teaching and learning in higher education and professional education, with her most recent book being Surgical Education Theorising an Emerging Domain with Roger Kneebone (Springer 2011).

Steve Ketteridge retired as Director of the Learning Institute at Queen Mary, University of London in 2012. He spent his full-time career working in the higher education sector, first as Lecturer in Microbiology, later moving into human resources, working on policy and development, before establishing the Learning Institute. He was actively involved in strategy development and led projects on the enhancement of teaching and learning. At Queen Mary he initiated the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and a range of other development programmes for staff and researchers, including the High Potential Leaders Programme for high flying academic and professional staff. Currently his professional interests span a number of sectors but are centred around the world of further and adult education: he is a governor at Morley College London and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Open College Network London which, amongst other things, awards Access to HE Diplomas regulated by the QAA.