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Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice

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The Multiple Affordances, Complexities and Limitations of Micro-credentials – Practitioner Voices

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In this paper I analyse the voices of practitioners and stakeholders in the micro-credentials arena to answer the research question: What are the possible affordances, complexities and limitations of micro-credentials? There is much written on the potential of micro-credentials as an agent of change…

Higher education for sustainable development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine

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The paper presents the analysis of the higher education modernisation for sustainable development in Ukraine regarding goals adopted on global and national levels, pre-pandemic trends and the challenges of 2020. The global experience integrating sustainable development goals into higher education is…

Reviewing Assessment in Online and Blended Flipped Classroom

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The aim of this study was to investigate the guiding principles, practises, and challenges of assessment in online and blended flipped classroom approaches in higher education. Based on that, we proposed a generic model of teaching, learning and assessment in online and blended flipped classroom, in…

Recognition of Prior Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review

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The aims of this research are to describe recent, global, empirical understandings of the recognition of prior learning (RPL) and to synthesise and extant knowledge in a way that assists stakeholders in uplifting the transitions to education, employment, or training. RPL matters are particularly imp…

Employability Learning and Teaching Research: A Twenty Year Structured Narrative Review

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Employability is a set of key personal attributes and transferable and discipline-specific skills considered essential for effective workplace performance; however, there are numerous perspectives about employability and how to develop it in higher education. Definitions and measurements of employab…

An Investigation of the Students’ Perceptions of Motivating Teaching Strategies in English for Specific Purposes Classes

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While studies on motivational strategies abound in the English as a foreign language acquisition literature, few studies have investigated their role in English for Specific Purposes classes in vocational higher education settings. This study examines the students’ perception of motivational teachin…

Building belonging in online WIL environments – lessons (re)learnt in the pandemic age: a collaborative enquiry

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The theme of belonging in e-pedagogy gained currency in the 2000s when educational providers hastened to join the online teaching and learning boom and studies of building and maintaining a sense of community (SOC) proved central to this endeavour. Motivated by the pandemic-era necessity to convene …

Allies as guides in the borderlands: The development of an online Ally Program to foster belonging for LGBTIQ+ students and staff at a regional university

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As minorities, people of diverse sexual orientations and genders often feel that they do not belong within higher education. To combat this, connection is important, but that can be difficult in the uncertain, predominantly online world of universities. The Ally Program is a university-wide, extra-c…

Work-integrated learning: The new professional apprenticeship?

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This article considers the intersection between two major themes in university policy: the improvement of participation by rural and regional communities and the dimension of graduate employability. It argues that work-integrated learning has the potential to address both themes, but that the develo…

Knowing me, knowing you: Humanitas in work-integrated learning during adversity

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Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) is a variety of learning opportunities that can extend beyond the application of theory to practice, to include complex situational, personal, material, and organisational factors. Central to forming successful WIL experiences is the partnership, support, and collabora…

Enhancing the learning performance of passive learners in a financial management class using problem-based learning

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This study aims to implement a problem-based learning method and investigate how this method enhances students’ learning performance, specifically in self-regulated learning and higher-order thinking skills for a Financial Management class, involving highly passive learners. The study adopted mixed …