Despite receiving growing international recognition and regard, the scholarship of engagement remains undervalued internally at academic institutions, especially in relation to career development and academic promotion. This form of scholarship presents difficulties relating to evaluation, assessment, and evidencing that are not generally present…

This publication prsents guidelines for effective higher education instruction based on research into teaching and learning, on good practices, and on criteria used in teaching awards and in tenure and promotion procedures. Section 1 addresses university teachers and effective teaching practice and includes a list of seven specific practices for…

This collection of papers investigates change and compares university education experiences worldwide, looking at it from the perspective of numbers of students, range of institutions, funding, institutional functions, boundaries, and directions, orientation of students and staff, and institutional change. After an introduction by Tom Schuler,…