Enhancing Student-centred Learning: in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism

Outlining successful approaches to enhancing student-centred learning, the book develops the theme of employability and moves on to consider lifelong learning and the development of independent, autonomous and self-empowered learners. The contributing academics offer case studies on student-centred learning, PDP, innovative approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, and discuss the lessons they have learned through a practice or intervention which aimed to engage students and encourage them to take more responsibility for their learning. This book was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST) and Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF) Networks.

Table of Contents:
Introduction John Buswell 1 Transforming the student learning experience A pedagogic model for everyday practice Colin Beard Sheffield Hallam University 2 The Writing Project 'Bridging the gap' into undergraduate study Susan Lea and Derry Corey University College Plymouth: St Mark & St John 3 Developing engagement in professional development planning in higher education Simon Cox Leeds Metropolitan University 4 Enhancing enterprise, entrepreneurship and employability through PDP Will Bowen-Jones and Karen Bill University of Worcester 5 Learning about me as well as the subject: meta-learning through the use of learning inventories John Buswell and Angela Tomkins University of Gloucestershire 6 How SAPHE are your students? Student awareness of personal finance in higher education Pru Marriott Winchester Business School 7 Student engagement with feedback Jacqueline Lynch University of Westminster 8 'Is that your final answer? Encouraging student participation using a personal response system Wendy Beekes Lancaster University Management School 9 Using eportfolio on two versions of an employability skills module Peter Robinson, Crispin Dale and Debra Wale University of Wolverhampton 10 From paper to eportfolio Evolution of PDP support in a Psychology Department Mark Moss Northumbria University 11 PDP - inspiring capability Sarah Nixon & Caitlin Walker Liverpool John Moores University & Training Attention Ltd 12 Adherence and participation factors in personal development planning Dominic Micklewright University of Essex 13 Stepping Stones 2HE Fresh thinking for introducing PDP to freshers Christine Keenan Bournemouth University 14 Enhancing student learning Managing tensions in a large undergraduate module Graham Baker and Robert French Bristol Business School, University of the West of England 15 Against the grain? Introducing experiential and enquiry-based learning to final-year students Louise Grisoni, Carol Jarvis, Margaret Page Bristol Business School, University of the West of England 16 Embedding PDP in an academic subject Jacqui Gush Bournemouth University 17 To embed or not to embed? The embedding of PDP in the curriculum Dorota Ujma, Mark Atlay, Petia Petrova University of Bedfordshire 18 Space to learn? Learning environments in higher education Colin Beard Sheffield Hallam University Index

About the Author :
John Buswell is principal lecturer in the Department of Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Gloucestershire and chair of the ISPAL Professional Development Board. He is also Liaison Officer for Leisure for the HE Academy Subject Centre for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism, based at Oxford Brookes University. He is a member of the Open University Validation and Awards Committees. His research interests and publications are in pedagogy and in the area of service quality in leisure, tourism and sport. Nina Becket is currently lecturing in hospitality and tourism management in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University and is the former assistant director of the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Subject Network.