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The national context of assessment in higher education (2019)
Book Chapter
King, H. (2019). The national context of assessment in higher education. In C. Bryan, & K. Clegg (Eds.), Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners. Routledge

Assessment is an integral part of effective curriculum design and development within modules and across programmes. However, it is also influenced by the wider local, national and, to an extent, international education policy context. This chapter wi... Read More about The national context of assessment in higher education.

Developing and embedding inclusive policy and practice within higher education institutions (2018)
Book Chapter
McLinden, M., Grove, M., Green, J., & Birch, A. (2018). Developing and embedding inclusive policy and practice within higher education institutions. In K. Krčmář (Ed.), The Inclusivity Gap (160-176). Aberdeen, UK: Inspired by Learning

This chapter contributes to the literature base on promoting equality of opportunity for students in Higher Education (HE). It seeks to broaden our understanding of how progress in relation to embedding inclusivity in the institution can be evide... Read More about Developing and embedding inclusive policy and practice within higher education institutions.

Virtual health education: Scaling practice to transform student learning: Using virtual reality learning environments in healthcare education to bridge the theory/practice gap and improve patient safety (2018)
Journal Article
King, D., Tee, S., Falconer, L., Angell, C., Holley, D., & Mills, A. (2018). Virtual health education: Scaling practice to transform student learning: Using virtual reality learning environments in healthcare education to bridge the theory/practice gap and improve patient safety. Nurse Education Today, 71, 7-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.08.002

© 2018 The advancements in and affordability of technologies offer increasing opportunities to modernise healthcare education into packages developed to meet the expectations and requirements of the digital generation. Purposefully designed and teste... Read More about Virtual health education: Scaling practice to transform student learning: Using virtual reality learning environments in healthcare education to bridge the theory/practice gap and improve patient safety.

Review of Savin-Baden M. (2015). Rethinking learning in an age of digital fluency: Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus? (2018)
Journal Article
Falconer, L. (2019). Review of Savin-Baden M. (2015). Rethinking learning in an age of digital fluency: Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus?. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-018-0014-7

Being connected through online and digital technologies has become increasingly commonplace over the past 20 years, but our understanding of the effect this has on where and how people learn has tended to be patchy at best. In Rethinking Learning in... Read More about Review of Savin-Baden M. (2015). Rethinking learning in an age of digital fluency: Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus?.

Fostering a culture of learning about teaching: Ideas from research on expertise (2018)
Presentation / Conference
King, H. (2018, October). Fostering a culture of learning about teaching: Ideas from research on expertise

A key characteristic of expert performance is continuous learning and development through a process of ‘Deliberate Practice’ (Ericsson et al, 1993) or ‘Progressive Problem Solving’ (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1993). These concepts have been explored emp... Read More about Fostering a culture of learning about teaching: Ideas from research on expertise.

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry (2018)
Book
Cleaver, E., Lintern, M., & McLinden, M. (2018). Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry. London: Sage

This book explores best practice approaches to undertaking enquiry into learning and teaching in higher education for staff from all academic disciplines. A general introduction to the methods most commonly used in undertaking enquiry in the field of... Read More about Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry.

Virtual Avebury: An immersive partnership (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Welham, K., Burden, D., Cleal, R., Falconer, L., Hoyte, R., Phelps, P., …Snashall, N. (2018, April). Virtual Avebury: An immersive partnership. Paper presented at Check Object Integrity, Krakow, Poland

This presentation describes the AHRC/EPSRC funded partnership between Bournemouth University, Daden Ltd, Satsymph and The National Trust, to create and test a fully immersive 3D simulation of Avebury Henge in Wiltshire, circa 2,300 BCE. We discuss th... Read More about Virtual Avebury: An immersive partnership.

Phenomenology and phenomenography in virtual worlds: An example from archaeology (2018)
Book Chapter
Falconer, L., & Scott, C. (2018). Phenomenology and phenomenography in virtual worlds: An example from archaeology. In L. Falconer, & M. C. Gil Ortega (Eds.), Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions (1-38). New York: Nova Science Publishers

This chapter discusses a project to construct a simulation of Avebury Henge, a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age monument in the SW of the U.K., in a 3D, virtual world environment, and to use phenomenological and phenomenographic methods for its evalua... Read More about Phenomenology and phenomenography in virtual worlds: An example from archaeology.

Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions (2018)
Book
Falconer, L., & Gil Ortega, M. C. (2018). L. Falconer, & M. C. Gil Ortega (Eds.), Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions. New York: Nova Science Publishers

Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions explores the rich and fascinating topic of virtual worlds by bringing together research findings and discussion pieces from an international group of leading practitioners in the field. The... Read More about Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions.

Experiencing sense of place in virtual and physical Avebury (2017)
Journal Article
Falconer, L. (2017). Experiencing sense of place in virtual and physical Avebury. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 21(6), 977-988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1064-7

This paper discusses the findings from a project to construct a simulation of Avebury Henge, a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age monument in SW Britain, in a 3D, virtual world environment. The aims of the study were to explore the archaeological resear... Read More about Experiencing sense of place in virtual and physical Avebury.