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    Supporting Learning Online: "Policy and Change Processes in Higher Education" - A Doctoral Programme Module
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    Supporting Learning Online: "Policy and Change Processes in Higher Education" - A Doctoral Programme Module

    By Paul Trowler

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    This little book gives an overview of my module on Policy and Change Processes in Higher Education, part of an entirely online PhD programme. Its aim is to give readers some feel for the content but especially the kinds of processes we engage in during that module. The module runs for 28 weeks, of which 15 are actively taught and the remaining 13 are devoted to research and writing the large assignment (which is, effectively, a journal article – participants often do subsequently publish their papers in academic journals). The detail of the module content and activities will change from year to year and from module to module, and of course tutors may change. Readers should though get a feel of what it is like to study for this PhD.

    While it is easy to depict the structure and content of a syllabus, it is far harder to describe (and understand) the processes to facilitate learning that go on within it, and how they fit together. This can be particularly true of an online programme. Someone recently said that following an online programme deploying a suite of sometimes unfamiliar technologies sequentially was like “doing a jigsaw without having the picture on the box.” That problem is immediately recognisable: programme and module handbooks describe the syllabus and assessment details but don’t have space to depict online learning processes. This booklet helps to paint that picture on the box cover.

    There are three audiences for this booklet:

    1. Participants beginning the Higher Education Research, Evaluation and Enhancement (HEREE) PhD programme at Lancaster University’s Department of Educational Research. The booklet offers them a very detailed overview of one of the modules in one place, taking more time to discuss the ways in which learning processes are supported than the handbook can do.

    2. Prospective participants who want to get a feel of the HEREE programme before they apply for and begin it, and want to understand in fuller detail the kinds of things they might be doing.

    3. General readers, students, change agents, managers and academics who are interested in online education at doctoral level, particularly in the area of research into higher education.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Trowler
    Release dateApr 14, 2014
    ISBN9781310844096
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    Supporting Learning Online: "Policy and Change Processes in Higher Education" - A Doctoral Programme Module
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    Paul Trowler

    Paul Trowler is Professor of Higher Education, Lancaster University where he directs two PhD programmes for researchers into higher education, one 100% online and the other residential-based. The first is here http://tinyurl.com/hhde5ej and the second here: http://tinyurl.com/zqmtpel Paul has research interests which include: academic tribes and their disciplinary territories; higher education policy-making and environmental change; cultures in universities; enhancing student engagement; planning and managing change in universities; the implementation of planned change particularly related to the enhancement of the curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment; and approaches to research and evaluation. Paul also engages in research, evaluation and development work with universities and higher education funding and policy bodies across the world, most recently in South Africa, Sweden, Chile, Italy, Norway, Australia and Ireland. Paul has published 19 physical books, 5 e-books, 27 articles and numerous book chapters and research reports.

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