On Becoming an Innovative University Teacher - Softcover

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John Cowan has been an active innovator for the past thirty years, having led in such developments as resource-based learning, Education for Capability, self-assessed learning, and action-research activities for students as well as teachers. He has been much in demand to share his experience in workshops which have linked staff and curriculum development in what has always been the essentially practical approach of someone who wants to help his colleagues to enhance their teaching and their students' learning.

A former Professor of Engineering Education at Heriot-Watt University, and of Learning Development at the Open University, he is a visiting professor at Salford University and the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and as a consultant currently chairs the Working Group which is charged to establish personal and professional capabilities as a central feature in the curricula for the courses offered in the University of the Highlands and Islands Project.