Research on student learning in higher education has been conducted across a range of national contexts over the past few decades. What does this research have to say that is of practical value to faculty who are currently grappling with real challenges in their undergraduate courses? It might be assumed that somewhere out there is a magical pedagogical or curriculum solution, but anyone who has started to grapple with the complexity of students, education and society in the 21st century, will know that this is unlikely. This workshop is based on the perspective that a more useful way to engage with education research is to consider it as offering a range of lenses that can enable one to look differently at familiar situations. Dr. Case will offer exemplars from her own research and teaching practices, and invite participants to apply these approaches to their own course contexts.

About the presenter: Associate Professor Jenni Case is an education researcher who specialises in university level science and engineering education.  Her research on the student experience of learning has been widely published, with 35 peer-reviewed journal publications.  She teaches undergraduate chemical engineering at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and is currently coordinating a major curriculum reform project in that programme.

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