What is it about?
Lecturers in higher education are frequently exhorted to adopt new digital practices however frequently they resist citing shortage of time. This paper examines why some lecturers, even those most engaged with adopting new digital tools in their teaching, find change challenging. The paper examines the types of challenge and shows how important it is to support lecturers. Available from the University of Huddersfield repository at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/20947/
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Why is it important?
The digital world offers many possibilities for new ways of teaching (such as flipped classroom and more active teaching and learning) but lecturers can be reluctant to change. This paper helps to identify why this is the case.
Perspectives
This paper is about people and their emotional response to change. It looks beyond the barriers to change such as time or skills to examine the lived experience of making change in teaching practices. Thus I believe it contributes to helping understand how change is experienced by lecturers in universities.
Dr Liz Bennett
University of Huddersfield
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This page is a summary of: Putting in more: emotional work in adopting online tools in teaching and learning practices, Teaching in Higher Education, July 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2014.934343.
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