Following changes in education over the years, lecturers are under increased pressure with heavier workloads and more complex assessment duties. This practical manual seeks to provide ideas on all aspects from coping with heavier workloads to working with support staff, and has a "dip-into" format.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been the focus of much debate and development within education, especially in the primary sector. This text offers tried and tested ideas for using IT effectively across the whole primary curriculum.

All types of organisations have recognised the growing demand for open and flexible learning programmes. With the increased emphasis on new ways of learning, and the rapid move towards open and online courses, this practical guide will help those involved overcome the challenges they face. This guide provides user friendly advice and support for those currently involved with open learning and those considering it for the first time.
500 Tips for Open and Online Learning aims not only to save you time but also to enhance the quality of the learning experience which learners will draw from open and online learning. The book is divided into six sections which cover:
* What is Open and Online Learning, why use it and how?
* How to set up Open and Online learning programmes
* Designing new resource materials
* Putting technology to work
* Supporting open learners
* Assessing open learning
This practical book will be an invaluable resource, providing immediate and accessible help to the increasing number of people now under pressure to design, support and deliver open learning programmes. This book will appeal to tutors, trainers, managers of learning resource centres and curriculum developers who are already involved in, or thinking about starting to use, aspects of open learning.


This text provides user friendly advice and support for school teachers and lecturers in further and higher education who need to know what information technology and computers can do for their work.

500 Tips on Group Learning

by Sally Brown

Published 1 April 2000
Including sections on creative thinking, problems in groups, feedback mechanisms, dealing with conflict, and gender issues within groups, this volume is designed to aid educators and trainers to create more effective group learning situations.

This manual provides practical advice and tips on dealing with aspects of the primary teacher's role, from classroom organization to professional development.

This handbook seeks to provide practical, realistic suggestions about how quality can be measured, maintained and improved in institutions. It is addressed to a cross-section of staff who make up colleges and universities, not just those responsible for quality audit.

Schools now have to prove that they are effective learning organizations. To achieve this, management competences must evolve at the same time as staff development and training. This text provides useful tips covering all aspects of school management and individual effectiveness.

A practical handbook providing advice and support for those involved with open learning. It examines how to design, support and deliver open learning, from writing the material to assessing the learners.

This text provides practical advice and support for people involved in working with children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). It takes a broad-based approach, aiming to combine pragmatic advice with theoretical underpinning, to provide SEN and classroom teachers with insight into support.

500 Tips for Tutors

by Sally Brown and Professor Phil Race

Published 30 November 2004
Aimed at university and college lecturers, this stimulating resource presents hundreds of fresh, practical tips covering the entire spectrum of situations faced in teaching and learning. The structure allows you to dip in and use at your leisure.

There are now more part-time and sessional staff than ever before working in further and higher education institutions in many parts of the world. These staff are often thrown in at the deep end, with lectures to prepare and deliver, assessment to plan and administer, and small-group teaching to organise and facilitate. They often have relatively restricted opportunities for training and staff development. This book provides practical and accessible guidance on how best to approach the many and varied parts of their work, and on how to survive successfully balancing part-time work with the rest of the commitments, which make up their lives.

This title offers sound practical advice in a tried-and-tested format with over 500 practical suggestions designed to help tutors inspire and motivate their students. Divided into useful sections, the tips cover all aspects of teaching and learning situations and comprise a 'start anywhere', dip-in resource suitable for both the newcomer and the more experienced teacher. This book is essentially about how academic staff can genuinely engage with students in all kinds of teaching and learning contexts, including face-to-face, distance and e-learning. It provides down-to-earth practical suggestions about how to approach the challenge of motivating all students, and how best to inspire them to learn and achieve their maximum potential.