Call for papers: Higher Education 2018: the way forward

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the forthcoming edition of 'Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education'.

ELEHE is an open-access international peer-reviewed online journal, addressing the challenge of enhancing learning in Higher Education.

We are inviting submissions for our Autumn 2014 special edition:

Higher Education 2018: the way forward

Guest editor: Professor Alejandro Armellini

The deadline for submissions for the next edition is 1st August 2014.

More information, along with article types and author guidelines are available at www.northampton.ac.uk/elehe. 


The Journal Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education can be found at: http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/index

New issue of Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education

The new of issue of the journal Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education is published today. See below for contents.

Vol 5, No 1 (2013)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial	PDF
Rachel Maunder, Simon Sneddon, Scott Turner, Anna Crouch	1-2

Articles

‘During the course of the programme my attention shifted and deepened – I was more interested in developing myself as a person’: Evaluating a careers award in higher education	PDF
Wayne Clark	3-20

Using the student voice to enhance the teaching of undergraduate courses with high failure rates	PDF
Erik Blair	21-37

Critical case studies

Being there: strategies for incorporating the student voice into the learning experience of a large first-year marketing course in a New Zealand university	PDF
Mary FitzPatrick, Janet Davey, Dorothy Spiller	38-48

Work in progress

Doctoral Training Partnerships: a work-in-progress review of the postgraduate researcher experience	PDF
Rebekah Smith McGloin	49-57

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Capturing the Distance (Online) Learner Experience	PDF
Rachel Fitzgerald, Paul Corazzo	58-64

Book reviews

Book review: A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (Silverman, 2013)	PDF
Wayne Clark	65-67

ISSN: 2041-3122


The Journal Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education can be found at: http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/index

Reposted from:  http://researchsupporthub.northampton.ac.uk/2013/11/26/dois-and-enhancing-the-learner-experience-in-higher-education/

DOIs and Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education

NOV 26

Posted by Miggie Pickton

I mentioned in a previous post that the University had recently registered with CrossRef to allow us to allocate Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to published articles.

Our first use of these has been within Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE), the university’s first open journal.  Each issue of the journal now has a DOI, as does each article within the issue. For example:

• ELEHE Volume 4, Issue 1; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14234/elehe.v4i1
• Stoncel, D and Shelton-Mayes, A. (2012) Students’ views on higher education learning environments for professional teacher education, Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education, 4(1), pp.3-16; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14234/elehe.v4i1.45

There are a couple of advantages to having DOIs assigned to articles.  In the first instance the DOI helps the reader locate the originally published copy of the work – even if the publisher moves the article (say to a different web address) the DOI system will redirect the reader to the new location.  This principle underpins the second advantage: the DOI acts as a unique identifier for the work and so can be used as a shorthand for referencing it.  For example, in the forthcoming REF exercise HEFCE have asked for DOIs, where possible, to be supplied instead of full text copies; these will be used by the REF team to access the research outputs directly from the publishers’ websites (HEFCE, 2013).

CrossRef places certain conditions on publishers wishing to assign DOIs to their journal articles.  One requirement is that editors should, where available, show DOIs against items within their articles’ reference lists. (Towle and Howe’s article demonstrates how DOIs appear in ELEHE reference lists.)  It is easy to imagine how these will build a complex interlocking network of scholarly outputs and form the raw material of future bibliometric tools and services.

Another CrossRef requirement is that publishers should make provision for perpetual access to their journal content.  This means that if an online journal ceases publication, past issues should still be accessible to readers.  A number of publishers have joined theLOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) scheme to support this requirement – but that’s a subject for another day.

Going forward, any future publication within the Northampton Open Journals collection will also benefit from the allocation of DOIs.  If you would like to know more about creating your own electronic journal then see our information for editors or get in touch with Miggie Pickton.

The Journal Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education can be found at: http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/index

updated: what is open Northampton?

The aim is for Northampton to feature prominently on the global OER map within two years lead by Professor+Alejandro Armellini with support from Professor Megan Quentin-Baxter.

More details of the bid can be found at: http://researchsupporthub.northampton.ac.uk/2012/12/10/funding-success-professor-alejandro-armellini/#more-1947

"Proposal / Executive Summary

The aim is for [The University of] Northampton to feature prominently on the global OER-OEP map within the next 24 months.

This presence will be achieved by:

Stakeholder engagement with OER and OEP across the institution -enabled by top-down and bottom-up approaches, dissemination of evidence and good practice and exemplar OER-enhanced courses.

Practice. (a) Promotion and facilitation of course design and development through the use of open resources, adapted or repurposed as appropriate. (b) Materials produced by Northampton academics to undergo a peer-review, copyright and quality assurance process, then licensed under an appropriate CC licence and released into suitable repositories (both institutional and external ones). By default, all materials will be open.

Support and guidance will be provided to students and staff to generate a culture shift towards openness and open practices, to include pedagogical, technical, legal (eg copyright and IPR) and good practice elements, in conjunction with colleagues in schools and, in particular, Library and Learning Services.

External funding to enable the university to conduct and disseminate the results of research and development initiatives into OER and OEP, matched by institutional funding for smaller projects.

Marketing and positioning. The university will capitalise on its growing presence on the global OER-OEP map for marketing and positioning purposes via various channels.

Evidence to enhance the student and staff experience. In parallel with all initiatives and projects, ongoing research and evaluation of the impact of OER and OEP on the student and staff experience will inform subsequent actions." University of Northampton (2012a)

"Openness for enhancement – Northampton’s innovative approach to enhancing learners’ experiences manifests itself in many ways, including its strategic focus on the quality of learning and teaching, institutional capacity building in learning design, research to practice, social enterprise, employability, and the use of evidence to shift relevant innovations to the mainstream. However, the absence of a strategic approach to openness has reduced the visibility of Northampton’s excellent work and limited its benefits to the community.

Staff engagement with OER and OEP – OER and OEP have been areas of limited prominence at Northampton so far. The University was the lead partner in TIGER, an OER Phase II project funded by JISC and the HE Academy (http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/detail/oer/OER_REL_Northampton), which focused on the School of Health. Lessons from the TIGER project have been learned, but the need to engage Northampton staff at all levels with the openness agenda remains – both as users and producers of open content. Colleagues at the University’s associate FE colleges need additional engagement with OER or OEP as well.

Awareness of good practice and the legal aspects of using third party content - The prevailing culture at Northampton is one where academics and course teams keep all or most of their content locked down behind the virtual learning environment (VLE). It is often difficult for academics to see each other’s materials. A review of materials currently available on Northampton’s VLE reveals a significant need for increased awareness of good practice in the use of third party material, including copyright, licensing and IPR."

What are OERs

OERS are "digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research" Hylén (2007) p. 30

“teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work” UNESCO (2012) 

Examples of OER
Open Learn from the Open University. A copy of the final report (McAndrew et al, 2009) for the project can be found at http://oro.open.ac.uk/17513/2/Research_forWeb.pdf. Interestingly for the School of Science and Technology one of the authors Tina Wilson is one of the school's recent visting research fellows. 

The University's own, growing, open journal Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE) which seeks to "seeks to galvanise interest in the field of HE learning, and act as a catalyst and stimulus for further research and dissemination." and has authors and editorial review board drawn from both the UK and Internationally.





More details of Open Northampton can be found at:
Towards a more open Northampton
Open Northampton gaining Momentum
Open Northampton gathers pace
Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE)

References

• University of Northampton (2012a) "Towards a more open Northampton" [online] URL: https://nile.northampton.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/orgs/LearnTech/Projects/Open%20Northampton/Towards%20a%20more%20open%20Northampton.pdf  [Accessed on 16th February 2013]
• University of Northampton (2012b) "Funding Success: Professor Alejandro Armellini" [online] URL: http://researchsupporthub.northampton.ac.uk/2012/12/10/funding-success-professor-alejandro-armellini/#more-1947 [Accessed on 19th February 2013]
• Hylén, J (2007). Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources. Paris, France: OECD Publishing. p. 30 cited by University of Northampton (2012) "Towards a more open Northampton" [online] URL: https://nile.northampton.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/orgs/LearnTech/Projects/Open%20Northampton/Towards%20a%20more%20open%20Northampton.pdf  [Accessed on 16th February 2013] p. 1
• McAndrew, P.; Santos, A.; Lane, A.; Godwin, S.; Okada, A.; Wilson, T.; Connolly, T.; Ferreira, G.; Buckingham Shum, S.; Bretts, J. and Webb, R. (2009). OpenLearn Research Report 2006-2008. The Open University, Milton Keynes, England.
• UNESCO (2012) "2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION" [online] URL: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf [Accessed on 16th February 2013]

Call for papers: The future of learning and teaching in Higher Education

Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE)

Call for papers:The future of learning and teaching in Higher Education

ELEHE is an open-access international peer-reviewed online journal, enthusiastically addressing the challenge of enhancing learning in Higher Education. The journal seeks to explore innovations which impact on student learning, and to share effective practice across different contexts. It aims to enhance the student experience of learning by an engaged commitment to the student voice. The deadline for submissions for the next edition under the theme of 'The future of learning and teaching in Higher Education' is 1st March 2013. However, we welcome papers at all times. Details about the journal focus and scope, along with author guidelines can be found here

ISSN: 2041-3122

Journal and submission details can be found at http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/about

update: Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education: Call for papers!

Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE): Call for papers!

ELEHE is an open-access international peer-reviewed online journal published by The University of Northampton: http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/index

The journal is being re-launched with a new Editorial Team, we are inviting authors to submit articles for publication in the forthcoming Autumn 2012 edition of the journal and we are looking for further papers.

The theme for this edition is “Creative strategies for enhancing the learner experience”. We welcome papers which embrace this theme in flexible ways, incorporating interesting and innovative techniques which have been shown to impact positively on students. In line with the aims and scope of the journal, we seek articles which actively incorporate the student voice.

The journal welcomes 

• research articles (3000-6000 words) for  articles reporting original pedagogic research focussed on enhancing the learner experience ; 
• critical case studies (3000-4000 words) for  case studies of institutional practice out of which original conceptualisations of enhancing the student experience  can be considered; 
• short reports (up to 2000 words) for  describing work in progress or a smaller piece of innovative work where a regular length paper would not be appropriate; 
• book reviews (up to 1000 words).

Details of the journal focus and scope, along with author guidelines can be found at http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/about

If you want to discuss ideas about possible articles, or want guidance on preparing your submission, please contact the Editors

Dr Rachel Maunder (Chair of Editorial Team) Rachel.Maunder@northampton.ac.uk

Dr Simon Sneddon (Editor; and Book Reviews Editor) Simon.Sneddon@northampton.ac.uk

Anna Crouch (Editor) Anna.Crouch@northampton.ac.uk

Dr Scott Turner (Editor) Scott.Turner@northampton.ac.uk

The Book Review Section is made possible because of the willingness of professionals to review books. We have a continual need for those interested in providing an occasional book review. If you would be willing to review a book for publication in the Book Review section of ELEHE, please contact the Book Review Editor, Dr Simon Sneddon.


Journal:  http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/index

Blog: http://elehe.blogspot.co.uk/