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Distributing Knowledge: Openness, Equity, and Higher Education Transformation
Inequity is deeply embedded in higher education: in who can access learning, whose knowledge is created and valued, who gets published, and who ultimately benefits from universities’ work. Distributing Knowledge argues that the sector is falling short of its public mission—and that incremental reform is no longer enough.
Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work
How do university finances really work?
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education. explores readers (secondary), readers.
Trust and entrustability in medical specialist training in South Africa: An Ubuntu-inspired pedagogy
The medical specialist training landscape in South Africa (SA) is grounded in a tradition of learning in the clinical workplace for at least four years, with a single exit examination assessing clinical competence, knowledge and complex clinical reasoning. However, given the broad scope of specialist…
Supporting Enterprisers: The Hidden Curriculum in Commerce Programmes
What helps students succeed beyond the formal curriculum? Supporting Enterprisers: The Hidden Curriculum in Commerce Programmes explores the often-unseen forces that shape student growth in higher education: the implicit norms, practices, relationships, and support systems that help students become…
Students Taking Responsibility for Their Own Learning: Insights from TU Delft
Helping students to develop a sense of responsibility for their learning is widely recognized as a key goal of higher education. OECD identifies 'taking responsibility' as one of the three critical transformative competencies that every student should develop to navigate the unpredictable societal,…
Next-Generation Science Education: Pedagogical Innovations, 4IR Technologies, and AI-Driven Student Engagement
This book is more than a collection of innovative teaching practices. It reflects a Faculty of Science that values educational excellence alongside scientific discovery and recognises that preparing future scientists requires both disciplinary expertise and pedagogical scholarship. By making their…
START Handbook: How can I help my first-year students engage, persist and succeed?
This handbook features a collection of concrete activities and ideas that academics teaching in different programmes can use to:
Digital Technology in Capacity Development: Enabling Learning and Supporting Change
Part 1 sets out the main thinking that informs our overall approach and the frameworks that guide our practice.
On Becoming a Scholar: What Every New Academic Needs to Know
On Becoming a Scholar: What Every New Academic Needs to Know
Resilience in Higher Education: The South African Experience
A collection of studies on resilience in South African higher education. The chapters examine student preparedness, mental health, food insecurity, institutional support and teaching practices, considering how universities respond to pressures affecting both students and staff.
Teaching and Learning for Change: Education and Sustainability in South Africa
Studies of teaching environmental and sustainability subjects in South African schools and teacher education. The chapters examine subject knowledge, classroom methods and assessment practices, drawing on a decade of work with teachers and researchers.
The Integration of Social-Haptic Communication in Deafblind Interpreting and Educational Settings
Conference papers on social-haptic communication in deafblind interpreting and education. Contributors discuss touch-based communication, professional practice and ways of sharing spatial, social and environmental information.
Transforming Teaching in Higher Education: Professional Development through the Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDip) Journey
Studies of professional development through postgraduate diplomas in higher education. The chapters examine how university teachers develop their practice and how different institutional settings shape that learning.
2024 Undergraduate Research Conference
Research articles developed from the University of Johannesburg’s 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference. Contributions from different faculties present student projects and introduce the methods and questions behind their research.
Artificial Intelligence Transforming Higher Education Volume 2
The second volume of a collection on artificial intelligence in higher education. Chapters examine uses of AI in teaching, learning, research and university practice, alongside the questions raised by its adoption.
Artificial Intelligence Transforming Higher Education Volume 1
The first volume of studies on artificial intelligence in higher education. Contributors examine applications in university teaching and learning and consider the institutional and educational questions associated with these technologies.
Doctoral Education in Context: Perspectives from Africa
A collection of experiences and approaches to doctoral supervision across sixteen African countries. The contributors reflect on research training, supervisory relationships and the institutional settings in which doctoral work takes place.
Education Research in African Contexts: Traditions and New Beginnings for Knowledge and Impact
Research on education in African contexts, bringing together different traditions and methods. The chapters present studies of teaching, learning and institutional practice undertaken through an East and Southern African research network.
Revisiting Africa’s Flagship Universities: Local, National and International Dynamics
A study of large public universities in Africa and their changing roles. The contributors examine how these institutions negotiate local needs, national responsibilities and participation in international higher education.
Contextualised open educational practices: Towards student agency and self-directed learning
Research on open educational practices in South African universities. The chapters examine the use and adaptation of educational resources, student agency and self-directed learning across different subjects and teaching settings.
The Good of the University: Critical Contributions from the Tilburg Young Academy
Essays from the Tilburg Young Academy on the purpose and responsibilities of a university. The contributors consider academic work, institutional choices and the relationship between universities and the societies around them.
CTE-STEM 2022 conference proceedings
Proceedings of the 2022 international conference on computational thinking and STEM education. Research papers examine teaching methods, learning tools and classroom applications across computing, science, technology, engineering and mathematics.