RETHINKING UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Teachers in higher education are slowly accepting the fact that they have to become more professional in their approach to teaching, matching their professionalism in research. The notions of quality audit and teacher appraisal are new, and in their existing forms ill-founded, but they represent a challenge that teacher will have to face. The book aims to prepare them for this: both to contribute towards a well-founded implementation of quality audits and appraisals, and to achieve their personal aims of improving their teaching and students' learning. There is also a growing recognition that the technological media have the potential to improve student learning, or at least teaching efficiency, and university teachers are looking for ways of increasing their understanding of what can be done with the new media, and how to do it. This book will inform them about what has been dome and what is already known, helping them to think constructively and critically, and building towards a practical methodology for the design, development and implementation of educational technologies.