Academic Staff Training at a Distance ‐‐ A Case Study

Learning Computing Skills in a Developing Country: A Case Study

“…13 By the time I had left Napier College in 1989 only a dozen or so of the 1000 academic staff were using new approaches to learning. Elton et al (1986) hint at a similar situation when considering that their unorthodox proposals were more readily accepted because the university had realised the need to develop money generating activities. This reinforces my belief that due to the negative environment that most people have to work in, change only occurs if the perceived outcome of not changing is significantly worse than the outcome of the change (O'Hara, 1991c).…”

Appraisal and Accountability in Higher Education: Some Current Issues*

“…A third and even more specialised connection arises from research into the educational processes that take place in higher education. This research has ledas has research in other new academic endeavoursto the identification of a new academic discipline in which it is now possible to take a degree, such as the MSc in the Practice of Higher Education at the University of Surrey (Elton, Oliver and Wray 1986). In German, the new discipline has also acquired a pithy and descriptive title, Hochchuldidukzik; in English we usually and cumbersomely refer to it as 'teaching and learning in higher education'.…”