Links between research and teaching

Both ends of the telescope:

Professor Frank Rennie

The Key Points

• Background to Research-Teaching links

• An example from our own practice

• What this means for education

• What this means for institutions

• What this means for society

Teaching into Research

New opportunities for staff

New ways of thinking

Extending beyond the known

New funding for projects

The half-life of knowledge….

Research into Teaching

Fresh ideas to inform & challenge students

Reputation as a cutting-edge location

Stimulates the spirit of enquiry

The value of requiring to explain

The benefit of requiring to contextualise

Researching our ownpractice

Research-led teaching

Research-orientated teaching

Research-based teaching

Research-informed teaching

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/LinkingTeachingAndResearch_April07.pdf

The Resources

Text on Blackboard Site

Added reading and information

Photographs on Flickr

Video-guides on YouTube

Podcast commentary on…….

eBooks for iLibrary and Kindle

paper textbook through blurb.com

Student satisfaction – online analysis

18th Century - The Scottish Enlightenment

http://www.freefoto.com/preview/9909-08-2924/Edinburgh-Fringe-2009

Europe’s first public education system

The triumph of rational thinking

The New Enlightenment

OEROpen Access

Creative Commons

Crowd Sourcing

Use the cloud to…..

Share research results

Share research data

Disseminate your ideas

Collaborate within a community of practice

… all for free

New pathways and hidden meanings

The power of serendipity

Multi-disciplinary networking

Rhizomatic learning

Connectivism

The Institutional challenges

Funding sustainabilityReputation

Self-organising systems

The Attention Economy

The value of learning

Smart Mobs

The power of the crowd

Learning beyond boundaries