A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Enhancing academic and Practice

Index
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525
UK Professional Standards
Framework (UKPS) 470,
470–1, 471
UK Research Council 178
UKCLE 374
UK-SPEK (Engineering Council)
264, 275
Ulster, University of 72, 80–1
Undergraduate Research
Scholarship Scheme 371
understanding 10, 13, 155
Unfinished Business (DoH)
427
unistructural understanding 13
Universities UK (UKK) 470
University of the Arts London
356–7
university teaching programmes
4
unseen written examinations 241,
277–8, 374–5
Ushioda, E 328
validity of marking 143
Vallerand, R J et al 30
values 300
Van der Vleuten, C 441
vicarious experience, relevance
60
video-conferencing 335
virtual seminars 317
virtual worlds 298
visual arts 345, 360–1; approaches
to learning 349–50;
assessment 350–3; community
links 360; community of
practice 347; context 345–8;
curriculum design and
development 349;
employability 355; equal
opportunities 347–8;
foundation degrees 359–60;
learning environments
359–60; learning in the 348–50;
learning outcomes 348;
museums and galleries 360;
personal and professional
skills 354–7; personal
development plans 355, 358;
project work 348, 348–9,
356–7; reflection 358;
sketchbooks 358; skills 354–8;
the student-practitioner 347;
the studio 359; technical skills
354; the tutor-practitioner
346–7; work-based learning
(WBL) 359–60; writing in
357–8
visual presentations 408–9
visual resources 354
viva voce examination 168, 182,
441, 443, 478
VLE (virtual learning
environment) 70, 86–8, 91,
92–3, 115, 118, 119–20, 125,
141, 159, 266, 270–1, 287, 292,
298, 312–3, 334, 335–6, 341,
369, 399, 400, 414–5, 437,
460
vocational degrees,
Employability Profiles 103
Volpe, Dr Guglielmo 413–4
volunteering 106
Vygotsky, Lev 21
Warren, Digby 481–3
Warwick, University 123–4, 272,
294–6, 371
Wass, V 443
Watts, M 407
Web 2.0 87, 94–5, 400
Webb, J 379
web-based laboratories 271
WebCT 87
websites: engineering 278–9;
experimental sciences 240,
243; Foundation Degree
Forward 360; languages 335;
mathematics and statistics
233, 242, 247, 251, 259, 261;
plagiarism detection 292
Wenger, E 21
West of England, University of
the 372, 387–8, 398–9
wiki 89, 94, 313–5, 437
Williams, M 158
Wolf, D M 19
work-based learning (WBL) 15,
107, 108–9, 274–5, 287, 348,
359–60, 444–5, 450. see also
placements
workforce development 275
Working Together, Learning
Together (DoH) 450
workshops 254
World Wide Web 85
Writing PAD project 358
Yahoo 94
York, University of 152, 160–1,
174
Yorke, M 100, 102, 107, 137, 141,
142
YouTube 94
zone of proximal development
(ZPD) 21