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1. Evaluation of a web-based interactive teaching tool for clinical cases in veterinary undergraduate education

   This project set out to encourage veterinary undergraduates to adopt independent and deep approaches to their study by incorporating problem solving and decision analysis.

   Date: 04-07-2007
2. Community University: Learners, Learning Providers and Communities

   This paper argues the benefit of a negotiated approach to widening adult participation in learning.

   Date: 03-03-2003
3. Feedback: all that effort, but what is the effect?

   Drawing on findings from a three-year study focused on student engagement with feedback, this paper reveals the limited extent to which feedback effectiveness can be accurately measured and challenges many of the assumptions and beliefs about effectiveness of feedback practices.

   Date: 04-01-2010
4. Deschooling vocational knowledge: work-based learning and the politics of the curriculum

   In this chapter, the authors explore the notion that work-based learning represents a deinstitutionalisation of vocational knowledge, arguing that the organising principle of the curriculum of work is both a continuation of a vocationalising trend in higher education and a radical break with 'knowledge codes' prevalent in higher education.

   Date: 01-11-2002
5. A Guide for Support Staff - e-Learning Series No.5

   The Generic Centre e-learning guides are the first fully comprehensive guides on e-learning aimed at specific audiences with UK higher education.

   Date: 01-08-2003
6. The Core Skills Trainer: A Set of Haptic Games for Practicing Key Clinical Skills

   This paper reports on a new approach to teaching the skills used by health professionals during hands-on (palpation-based) examinations and procedures, where students practice individual 'core' skills by playing haptic computer games.

   Date: 01-01-2010
7. FE and social inclusion: understanding the processes of participation

   Since the mid-1980s, further education colleges have been far the largest providers of adult education in Britain.

   Date: 03-07-2000
8. Alternative Education Provision at Key Stage 4

   In the summer term of 1998, NFER carried out a survey of schools in a sample LEAs, asking them what alternative curriculum programmes they used for some students at key stage 4. Just under a quarter of the schools contacted told us about the schemes they had in place.

   Date: 02-10-2000
9. Difficult, Dangerous, Impossible...: Crossing the boundaries into Immersive Virtual Worlds

   This paper describes the use of Second Life in a course designed to teach students about the creation of interactive learning environments.

   Date: 20-11-2008
10. Collective reflection under ambiguity

    This chapter is concerned with collective productive reflection in the workplace and the changing forms that it takes. It concentrates on the development of employee participation in collective reference, starting from the discussion point that there are many forms of unrecognised collective reflection inside workplaces. It defines three phrases of participation, namely the formal, the functional and the embedded, demonstrating that all three are to be found in organizations in most European countries.

    Date: 10-11-2005