A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research and scholarship, and academic management. Against these contexts, the book focuses on developing professional academic skills for teaching. Dealing with the rapid expansion of the use of technology in higher education and widening student diversity, this fully updated and expanded edition includes new material on, for example, e-learning, lecturing to large groups, formative and summative assessment, and supervising research students.Part 1 examines teaching and supervising in higher education, focusing on a range of approaches and contexts.Part 2 examines teaching in discipline-specific areas and includes new chapters on engineering, economics, law, and the creative and performing arts.Part 3 considers approaches to demonstrating and enhancing practice.Written to support the excellence in teaching required to bring about learning of the highest quality, this will be essential reading for all new lecturers, particularly anyone taking an accredited course in teaching and learning in higher education, as well as all those experienced lecturers who wish to improve their teaching. Those working in adult
added copper was examined in isolates of Laccaria laccata (Scop, ex Fr,) Cooke and Poxilhis involutus (Batsch ex Fr,) Fr, taken from copper-contaminated and uncontaminated sites, and in a single isolate oi Scleroderma citrinum Pers, from a contaminated site. Two isolates of Laccaria (GLac4 and ELacl) grew better in 1-5 mM and 2-5 mM copper than a third (Lac3G) and were considered to be more tolerant. Amongst five isolates of P, involutus, three (WJPax2R, GPaxRSp2 and Pax4) were capable of growth in media containing 4-0 mM copper and were regarded as tolerant. All isolates of both Laccaria and Paxillus were capable of some growth in 2-5 mM copper, but S. citriinim was much more copper-sensitive and the concentration had to be reduced at least 10-fold before any growth occurred. Tolerance of isolates was not related to whether they were taken from copper-contaminated or uncontaminated sites. Copper-binding proteins were detected in response to copper in the culture media in the two tolerant isolates of Laccaria (GLac4 and ELacl) but not in the least tolerant isolate. In Paxilhis, similar proteins were found in two tolerant isolates (GPaxRSp2 and Pax4) but not in WJPax2R, which was also regarded as tolerant, nor in any of the less tolerant isolates. Copper-binding proteins were not detected in S. citrinum. The copper-binding protein purified from the Laccaria isolate ELacl appeared as a single band in modified SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. Its molecular mass and spectral characteristics were consistent with it being a metallothionein.
Teamwork skills have been acknowledged as the key skills of potential engineers by industries internationally, including Chinese enterprises. This paper reports research in a joint Sino-UK programme in China on how teamwork can best be taught. Literature shows that little work has been done to find effective ways to teach teamwork to engineering students in China. This work attempts to implement successful cooperative learning practices of the West to a module that takes teamwork skills as one of its key teaching objectives and tries to design a new model for instructors to follow to teach teamwork effectively to Chinese engineering students. Preliminary results show that Chinese engineering students need training and practices in teamwork skills, and the situation is not exactly the same as previous research in other Confucius Heritage Culture countries.
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