Staff Development - some articles of interest

This page contains links to and/or local copies of various articles that may be of interest to staff in the Science Faculty

• What the student does - teaching for enhanced learning (PDF) (John Biggs, Higher Education Research and Development 18(1), 57 (1999)

• The 4-Stage Response to Low Student Achievement (John Lemuel, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 March 2011)

  You can see a local copy here

• Navigating a complex landscape to foster greater faculty and student diversity in higher education (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010) (PDF format; interesting US article, link to original website)

  You can see a local copy here

• The impending demise of the University? (Don Tapscott - not Rhodes specific!)

• When computers leave classrooms, so does boredom (Jeffrey Young, 2009)

• Boredom in the lecture theatre: an investigation into the contributors, moderators and outcomes of boredom amongst university students (Sandi Mann, Andrew Robinson: British Educational Research Journal,35:2,243 - 258 (2009)

• Audit Culture and Anthropology: Neo-Liberalism in British Higher Education. (Shore and Wright, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1999)