Educational discourse often conveys ideals of perfection, via optimisation, seamlessness, and ‘guaranteed’ learning outcomes. Teaching and learning are, thereby, framed as linear, controllable proc...

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I’ve just read a paper about epistemic placemaking. Epistemic placemaking is equipping and arranging places for knowledge work. The paper suggests that students might actively co-design t…

How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…

This article develops a framework for understanding the evolving spatial ontology of the contemporary university library. We conceptualise the library in three overlapping ways. First, as a materia...

This book presents postdigital (re)imaginations of education, reframing its potential as an emancipatory practice

The background of this chapter is an interest in how learning and development have been conceptualized in western research. The argument is that the methodological ideals and theoretical frameworks ha...

This paper presents findings from a scoping review of 86 studies examining how pre-service and in-service teachers develop interdisciplinary expertise…

Albrecht, C., Jantos, A., & Böhm, C. (2023). Hybride Lehrveranstaltungen – Spannungsfeld zwischen technischer Praktikabilität und didaktischem Anspruch. Journal for Higher Education and Academic Development, 3(1), 17–27. https://doi.org/10.55310/jfhead.31

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Co-producing knowledge in and about education by combining collaborative ethnography and abductive reasoning

2025 NLC Node Event in Asia – Hosted by Seoul National University

When planning a learning event, teachers will carefully craft learning tasks, while choosing specific social arrangements and selecting material and digital tools for their students. Each learning eve...

Volume 7, issue 1 articles listing for Postdigital Science and Education

Left feeling isolated by the Covid-19 pandemic, artists working within Art in Motion (AIM), a participatory contemporary arts organisation operating as a collective of learning-disabled and neurodiver...

If university students can do many of their activities anywhere, how do students decide what is best done at different locations? This paper introduces the concept of ‘epistemic placemaking’ as a c...

If university students can do many of their activities anywhere, how do students decide what is best done at different locations? This paper introduces the concept of ‘epistemic placemaking’ as a c...

Networked Learning is an area of research focusing on understanding the qualities, opportunities, and challenges that connections between people and technology bring to learning and knowledge developm...

Are you interested in what the future could look like for learning spaces in Higher Education? Hear from contributors to the HERD 2025 SI.

"Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

It’s happening! Join us for the Launch of a new Special Issue of Higher Education Research & Development on ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces:…

Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) has indicated that course design is at least as important as teachers’ performance for student-rated perceived quality and student engagement. Our data...

Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

Universities are expanding the number of interdisciplinary courses they offer. These courses are often developed at the fringes of universities and academic departments by course leaders who often hav...

The higher education industry might seem like it’s booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these in...

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