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Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices (2024)
Journal Article
Zaher, A. (2024). Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.8

Academic advising is an essential element of a student’s experience and an integral part of a professor’s work. However, it does not always receive enough attention in higher education (HE) institutions even though it has proven to be crucial in enha... Read More about Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices.

Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning (2024)
Journal Article
Therova, D., & McKay, A. (2024). Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 21-40. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.9

Mastering academic writing is one of the challenges frequently experienced by university students across all levels and disciplines. As writing remains one of the most common ways of demonstrating knowledge in university settings, developing an appro... Read More about Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning.

The benefits and challenges of creative writing assessment in French: Un geste pour un autre by Jean Tardieu (2024)
Journal Article
Crahay, G. (2024). The benefits and challenges of creative writing assessment in French: Un geste pour un autre by Jean Tardieu. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 5-20. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.3

This article aims to highlight and defend the benefits of creative writing assessment in higher education language modules. While the latter traditionally prefer essay-like assignments over creative ones, creative writing allows learners to develop a... Read More about The benefits and challenges of creative writing assessment in French: Un geste pour un autre by Jean Tardieu.

Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations. (2024)
Journal Article
Roger, M., & Nolan, S. (2024). Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.13

Welcome to the first edition of Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (ELTHE). ETLHE offers an opportunity for those involved in universitylearning and teaching to disseminate their practice. It aims to publish accounts of scho... Read More about Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations..

Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use. (2024)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E. (in press). Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x24000062

Many have interpreted symbolic material culture in the deep past as evidencing the origins sophisticated, modern cognition. Scholars from across the behavioural and cognitive sciences, including linguists, psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists... Read More about Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use..