CIHE themes

The Centre for Innovation in Higher Education drives research-informed innovations in learning, teaching and assessment to improve student outcomes. We create and contribute to pedagogic research and scholarship across ARU, and beyond.

Key pedagogies

Our key pedagogies are transformative and inclusive.

These may include:

• Interdisciplinarity
• Students as producers and researchers
• Employability, authentic learning, and professional learning
• Decolonising the curriculum
• Student wellbeing and belonging
• Sustainability
• Online, distance and technology-enhanced learning 
• Work and practice-based learning

Plus:

• Active Learning and student engagement
• Creative
• Playful
• Different modes of learning (blended/hybrid, hyflex, distance, work- and practice-based)
• 'Personalised' learning
• Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR)
• Responding to new and emerging pedagogies 

Recent projects

Impact evaluations of institutional initiatives:

Reports:

• An evaluation of the Active Curriculum Framework, Course Design Intensives, and the Ruskin Modules: How well has the change process worked, what are the lessons for the future, and how can the impact be evaluated? (with Professor Liz Thomas)
• Evaluation of the implementation and short-term impact of the Ruskin Modules, 2021/22, and recommendations for 2022/23 onwards (with Professor Liz Thomas)
• Higher Education Learning Experiences pre-, peri- and post-Covid-19: What will evolve, and what will survive? (with Claire Pike)
• Mitigating the Impact of Lateness (with Cliona O’Dunlaing and Marty Chambers)

Books:

Simon Pratt-Adams, Uwe Richter and Mark Warnes, 2020. Innovations in Active Learning in Higher Education, published by Fulcrum (University of Michigan Press) and University of Sussex

Innovative and Transformative Pedagogies: Interdisciplinary approaches and breadth curricula in Higher Education (with the Ruskin Module Research Community)