Network: NETWORK 22: Research in Higher Education
Session 1A, Higher Education and Employability (1)
Wednesday, 2005-09-07, 15:00-16:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Jani Ursin
- The impact of post-graduate education on the changing attitudes, values, concerns and occupational choices of social work students
- Higher education expansion and new labour market's needs: a theoretical discussion
- The flexible professional and lifelong learning: issues for higher education
Suzanne Guerin Bairbre Redmond
Parvin Aliakbar-nia Omran Ebrahim Salehi
Lore Arthur
Session 1B, Supporting the Learner in Higher Education
Wednesday, 2005-09-07, 15:00-16:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Kate Day
- Learning assistants; just another label or a vehicle for development?
- Postgraduate research supervision and knowledge management
Dan Yngve Jacobsen
Carmel Diezmann
Session 2A, Higher Education: Transitions and Tensions (1)
Wednesday, 2005-09-07, 17:00-18:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Francis Mudge
- Dual systems and tertiary moments
- Doctor's order: rush - don't reflect! Tensions in higher education
- The social trust towards university institutions
Gareth Parry
Ingrid Nilsson Christina Segerholm
Javier Calvo de Mora Martinez
Session 2B, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (1)
Wednesday, 2005-09-07, 17:00-18:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Kari Smith
- Renegotiation of knowledge: the notion of knowledge within the professional associations of nurses and teachers
- Challenges of introducing a constructivist classroom culture in a predominantly teacher-centered environment
- Conceptions of teaching and learning and perceptions of assessment and learning outcomes at a Portuguese university
Berit Karseth
Hanife Akar Ali Yildirim
Fernando Goncalves Sandra Valadas
Session 2C, The Idea of the University in the 21st Century: Part 2
Wednesday, 2005-09-07, 17:00-18:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: Elinor Edvardsson Stiwne
- Realising a civic role for higher education conceptions of knowledge, community and civil society
- National development and the aims of the university
- Enhancing and hindering factors affecting the integration of a philosophy of profession in higher education curricula
Josephine Boland
Richard Smith
Egle Katiliute Vilma Zydziunaite
Session 3C, The Idea of the University in the 21st Century: Part 3
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 09:00-10:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: Elinor Edvardsson Stiwne
- Conceptions of contemporary universities: to research or not to research?
- The practice of higher education: excellence and equity
- The idea of a university: what kind (s) of higher education curricula, and teaching and learning experience, will be on offer to students in the 21st century?
Rosemary Deem
David Bridges
Barbara Zamorski
Session 3A, Higher Education: Transitions and Tensions (2)
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 09:00-10:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Mary Thornton
- The assumptive worlds of policy makers and practitioners in higher education: a theoretical framework
- Higher education and regional development: a case of the Baltic sea region
- Aims in educating experts in the science of education
Duna Sabri
Kazimierz Musial
Ritva Jakku-Sihvonen Varpu Tissari
Session 3B, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2)
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 09:00-10:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Monne Wihlborg
- An investigation into the relationships between the socio- economic, demographic and academic characteristics of Irish Institute of Technology computing students
- Student-focused evaluation of elearning activities
- Adding design principles to the cognitive theory of multimedia learning: is there a need ?
Carol O'Shea Seamus O'Shea
Karen Fill
Katrien De Westelinck Martin Valcke
Session 4A, Reflective Engagement as Professional Development in Higher Education
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 11:00-12:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Nona Mary Lyons
- Reflective engagement as professional development in higher education: does new research support or refute the argument?
Maria Dempsey Carmel Halton Nona Mary Lyons Marian Murphy Anne Rath
Session 4B, Students' Early Experiences in Higher Education (1)
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 11:00-12:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Barbara Zamorski
- The first year in higher education - a search for relevance and meaning
- Study guidance during the first year in university - staff tutoring and personal study plans as examples
- The development of first-year students' study skills at the Russell group universities
Elinor Edvardsson Stiwne
Jani Ursin
Ursula Wingate
Session 4C, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Employability
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 11:00-12:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: Kate Day
- Adult students at university: opportunities for and challenges to lifelong learning
- Managing time amidst conflicting roles: parents in post- graduate education in Greece
- Taking notes seriously: working with practice protocols to interlace places of learning and to increase professionalism within the framework of higher education- illustrated with examples from courses in the field of pedagogy
Ellen Piesanen
Chryssi Vitsilaki Marios Vryonides
Margit Datler Karin Messerer
Session 5A, Higher Education: Transitions and Tensions (3)
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 13:00-14:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Christine Teelken
- Rethinking university organizational culture
- University competition: symmetric or asymmetric quality choices
- The locus of power in higher education institutions and its influence on learning and teaching strategies
Audrone Poskiene
Wilfried Pauwels Eve Vanhaecht
Laurie Lomas
Session 5B, Common European principles for the identification and validation of non-formal and informal learning: implications for higher education (Part 1)
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 13:00-14:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: John Konrad
- Common European principles for the identification and validation of non-formal and informal learning: implications for higher education
- The origins of the principles: from the Memorandum on Lifelong Learning (2000) to the Maastricht Communique (2004) - analysis of an aspect of the open method of coordination and the use of virtual policy - making communities
- Further development of the European Inventory on Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Competences and its policy environment
- Using the Common European Principles in the development of neighbouring Learning Regions
Hana Cihakova Gerald Heidegger Silvia Irimiea Marta Jacyniuk Wiebke Petersen Jola Religa Odd Bjorn Ure
John Konrad
Odd Bjørn Ure
Hana Cihakova Francis Mudge
Session 5C, The Higher Education Curriculum and the Individual Learner
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 13:00-14:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: Rosemary Deem
- Possibilities for the development of the personality in the system of mass higher education: the attitude of the teachers of a higher educational institution in transition
- Development of political identity & leadership in higher education
- What is meant by professional responsibility? Theoretical perspectives on the concept of professional responsibility
Dalija Gudaityte
Aneas Schroer
Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke
Session 6, Common European Principles for the Identification and Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Learning: Implications for Higher Education Part 2
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 17:00-18:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Kari Smith
- Summary of the key questions
- Prerequisites to the institutional recognition of non-formal and informal learning
- Progress in the implementation of Accreditation of Prior Learning [APL] in the Netherlands
- Impact of European recommendations in the area of education on Poland
- Critical perspectives on accreditation of informal learning in highly structured VET- systems
John Konrad
Silvia Irimiea
Clemens Romijn
Marta Jacyniuk Jola Religa
Gerald Heidegger Irina Michel Wiebke Petersen
Session 6A, Students' Early Experiences in Higher Education (Part 2)
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 17:00-18:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Elinor Edvardsson Stiwne
- Evaluating a learning skills intervention for first year students in UCD (poster)
- University students' experiences of tutoring and regulation of learning
- Engineering learning support at the Institute of Technology Tallaght
Ursula Bates Arlene Egan Aidan Moran Carmel O'Sullivan
Sanna Honkimaki
Rosemary Cooper Fiona Cranley Ciaran O'Sullivan Paul Robinson
Session 6B, Higher Education and Widening Participation
Thursday, 2005-09-08, 17:00-18:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: Kari Smith
- Social background and grades in higher education: how does social background affect the grades and grade careers of Norwegian economics-students?
- Connection, continuity, change: lessons from the withdrawal from University College Dublin by some direct entry students
Havard Helland
Aine Galvin Kevin Hurley
Session 7C, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (3)
Friday, 2005-09-09, 09:00-10:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Francis Mudge
- Using management motivation techniques to motivate students and develop their self-motivation
- Learning strategies of university students and their academic achievement
- An empirical approach to identify and evaluate conceptual frameworks of students in higher education
Vera Krnajski-Hrsak Marija Rizmaul Tamara Sladoljev-Agejev Visnja Spiljak
Pedro Garfella Esteban Bernardo Gargallo Lopez Jesus Suarez Rodriguez
Carools J. Reinecke
Session 7C, Internationalisation of Higher Education
Friday, 2005-09-09, 09:00-10:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: Rosemary Deem
Session 7A, Academic and Staff Development in Higher Education
Friday, 2005-09-09, 09:00-10:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Barbara Zamorski
Session 8C, Higher Education Research: Methodological Approaches
Friday, 2005-09-09, 11:00-12:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: Charles Anderson
- Designed' or emerging dialogue?: researcher and disciplinary practitioner perspectives on the dynamics of collaborating in a higher education project
- The use of qualitative interviews within the evaluation research (poster)
- Controlling response shift bias in evaluation research: the use of the retrospective pretest methodology in the evaluation of a master's programme
Kate Day Catriona MacDonald
Raquel Castillo Prieto
Jonathan Drennan
Session 8A, Higher Education and Equality Studies
Friday, 2005-09-09, 11:00-12:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Barbara Zamorski
Session 8B, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (4)
Friday, 2005-09-09, 11:00-12:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Dan Yngve Jacobsen
- Attitudes of university students toward learning and their academic achievement (poster)
- If I had a good teacher: the influence of life experiences on career selection among high achieving students
- Change in teacher and student attitudes towards learning and physics science: realisation of the systemic approach to physics study
Amparo Fernandez March Cruz Perez Perez Francesc Sanchez Peris
James Watters
Palmira Juceviciene Violeta Karenauskaite
Session 9A, Higher Education and Europe
Friday, 2005-09-09, 13:00-14:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Barbara Zamorski
- Harmonisation: a broken taboo? Higher education after 'Bologna' in three EU member states
- Establishing a network of European educators
- Education and Europeanization: a study of the Portuguese case
Kurt De Wit Nathalie Druine Veerle Hulpiau Piet Verhesschen
Karen Fill Paul Riddy
Paula Branco da Cunha
Session 9B, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (5)
Friday, 2005-09-09, 13:00-14:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Monne Wihlborg
- The impact of instructional conceptions on the use of adjunct aids in higher education textbooks
- Learning and teaching in higher education: the use of images as didactic resource
- Novel active handouts in the teaching and learning of brain function
Jan Elen L.P. Louw
Sonia Maria Ribeiro de Souza
William T. O'Connor
Session 9C, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (6)
Friday, 2005-09-09, 13:00-14:30, Room: Science Theatre C, Chair: John Konrad
- Students' questions and conceptions of learning
- Self-concept of university students and their academic achievement (poster)
- Personalised learning: genesis of a narratable self
Patricia Almeida Maria Helena Pedrosa De Jesus Michael Watts
Pedro Garfella Esteban Francesc Sanchez Peris Alicia Ferreras Remesal Concepcion Ros Ros
Ruth Deakin Crick Milan Jaros
Session 10A, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (7)
Saturday, 2005-09-10, 09:00-10:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Barbara Zamorski
- Drop-outs in higher education in the Netherlands
- A prospective study of the formative profile of the secondary education students in the transition to the upper education
- Differences in learning styles of Chinese and Dutch students
Djoerd de Graaf Uulkje de Jong Ineke Van der Veen Marko J. van Leeuwen
Carlos De Sousa Reis Joao Leitao Jose Salgado
Harm J.A Biemans Marc Van Mil
Session 10B, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (8)
Saturday, 2005-09-10, 09:00-10:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Jani Ursin
- An evaluation of the multidisciplinary components of a part-time third level programme for adults in occupational safety and health.
- The medical formation in the relationship among doctor and patient
- Learning approaches of university students and their academic achievement
Anne Drummond Maureen Killeavy
Maria Cristina Pansera de Araujo Ruth Matilda Fricke Joao Carlos Lisboa
Amparo Fernandez March Alicia Ferreras Remesal Concepcion Ros Ros
Session 11A, Higher Education and Employability (2)
Saturday, 2005-09-10, 11:00-12:30, Room: Agric. G24, Chair: Barbara Zamorski
- Key perspectives in educational graduate study programmes with a vocational slant - an evaluation study
- Higher education and transition to work: a comparative perspective between students, graduates students and employers
- Boundary creatures and boundary learning: foundation degree studies and work-based learning at the Open University
Monica Carlsson
Jose Cajide Val
Anthea Harris Chris Kubiak Anita Rogers
Session 11B, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (9)
Saturday, 2005-09-10, 11:00-12:30, Room: Agric. G09, Chair: Elinor Edvardsson Stiwne
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