LIHE – INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION
LIHE (Learning in Higher Education) is an international academic association founded in the autumn of 2007 for the advancement of learning-centred higher education (HE). We continuously work to bring together international researchers and practitioners within HE, to further advance international research and publication of ways in which to successfully design and implement learning-centred HE.
LIHE organises scholars who support a move from a traditional paradigm with content-based syllabus-driven didactic teaching to a learning-centred paradigm with focus on the relationship between curriculum development, teaching and study methods, and students’ learning outcomes. It is our underlying argument that such a shift in higher education benefits student learning and facilitates students’ self-development of higher-order thinking skills and transferable competencies.
LIHE also organises scholars engaged in institutional research, dealing with strategies for quality enhancement (QE) of learning-centred HE that ties together the institutional level with the operational level. Here strategic QE is seen as an intricate process that takes place in a polyphonous context with multiple stakeholders. Learners, teachers, departments, study boards, study administrations, faculties, university administrations, and university management groups are important internal stakeholders. Employers, partners, politicians, press, local community and potential students and their parents are important external stakeholders. LIHE seeks to produce and disseminate successful methods of strategic QE and institutional governance.
LIHE is not founded to challenge the conventional academic conference with hundreds if not thousands of delegates and massively parallel streams with short presentations and even shorter discussions. LIHE is devoted to bring together small groups of people in ways that encourage joint research, collaborative publications, professional networks, and lasting professional friendships across borders. To achieve this we return to a relatively neglected format for our international meetings – the Symposium - which combine both formal and informal conversations, and creation of shared products. All our activities have a demand for concrete output. LIHE are here to professionally create and facilitate collaboration, learning, and dissemination.
Within our first 21 months of existence we have arranged two international symposiums (LIHE ‘08, LIHE ‘09), published two international anthologies (Nygaard, C. & C. Holtham (eds.) “Understanding Learning-Centred Higher Education”, Frederiksberg: CBS PRESS, Denmark & Nygaard, C.; C. Holtham & N. Courtney (eds.) “Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes”, Frederiksberg: CBS PRESS, Denmark), and put in a bid for a 2 million EURO research grant with participation from some of the LIHE-members.
LIHE has promising events coming up (LIHE Writers for Journal Publication; LIHE ‘10).
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS OF LIHE
Clive Holtham
Professor of Information Management and Director of the Learning Laboratory at Cass Business School, London, UK. After taking a Masters degree in management, he trained as an accountant and was Young Accountant of the Year in 1976. Following six years as a Director of Finance and IT, he moved to the Business School in 1988. His research is into the strategic exploitation of information systems, knowledge management and management learning. He has been an adviser to the European Parliament on educational technology, and led a major EU project on measurement and reporting of intangibles as well as the highly rated QuBE project into quality enhancement in business schools. In 2003 he was awarded a UK National Teaching Fellowship, and is a board member of the Non-Profit E-learning Network (2008-2011), a major initiative to promote management education through informal online learning. He is author of a large number of publications, and lectures, broadcasts and consults in the UK and internationally. He was a founding member of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, the City of London’s 100th livery company.
Dr. Claus Nygaard
Professor in Management Education and Director of Research at CBS Learning Lab, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Originally trained in business economics and administration, where he holds a Ph.D., he became Associate Professor in Economic Sociology at Department of Organization and Copenhagen Business School. In 2000 he changed position to CBS Learning Lab, and began to work with Quality Enhancement of Higher Education. He was a driving force behind the formulation and implementation of the “Learning Strategy” for Copenhagen Business School in 2005. He has received distinguished research awards from Allied Academies, outstanding paper awards from Students in Free Enterprise, and he was voted “best teacher” at Copenhagen Business School in 2001. His research has resulted in several anthologies, and he has published in leading journals like “Higher Education”, “International Studies of Management & Organization”, and “International Journal of Public Sector Management”.
ACADEMIC ADVISORS AND REVIEWERS
Dr. Andras Margitay-Becht
Lecturer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.
Andrea Raiker
Programme Leader, Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, University of Bedfordshire, England.
Dr. Anna Reid
Associate Professor at the Institute for Higher Education Research and Development at Maquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Anne Jordan
Manager of the Educational Development Centre, School of Education, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.
Dr. Antigoni Papadimitriou
Research teaching staff member, Department of Economics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Dr. Arti Kumar
Associate Director, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Bedfordshire, England.
Dr. Dana H. Herrera
Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California (USA).
Dr. David R. Newman
Lecturer at Queen’s University Management School, Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK).
Dr. Despina Varnava-Marouchou
Department of Management and Marketing, European University, Cyprus.
Dina Z Belluigi
Lecturer at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Dr. Doina Usaci
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education at University Transilvania of Brasov, Romania.
Dorothy Wallace
Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA.
Dr. Eirik J. Irgens:
Associate Professor at Nord-Trondelag University College, Norway; and Researcher at Learning Lab Denmark, The Danish School of Education – University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Flemming Meier
Pedagogical Advisor at CBS Learning Lab, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Dr. Gordon Wells
Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
Dr. Hairani Wahab
Lecturer at the Faculty of Information Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
Dr. Hazadiah Mohd Dahan
Associate Professor and Instructional Designer at the Institute of Education Development, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
Dr. Helle Mathiasen
Professor at Institute of Information and Media Studies and Director of Center for Research in IT & Learning at University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Dr. Hesta Friedrich-Nel
Professor, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontain, Free State (CUT), South Africa.
Dr. Isabel Huet
Department of Didactics and Educational Technology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Dr. John Branch
Professor and Dean of Educational Outreach, University of Michigan, USA.
John Burnett
Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth, England.
Juliet Hinrichsen
Instructional designer, Centre for Studies in Higher Education, Coventry University, England.
Dr. Liezel Frick
Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Department of Curriculum Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Dr. Mark Atlay
Director of Teaching and Learning at the University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton, UK.
Dr. Marzita Puteh
Associate Professor at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Tanjong Malim, Pedak, Malaysia.
Dr. Nigel Courtney
Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, City of London, UK.
Dr. Nor Aziah Alias
Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at the Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
Dr. Orison Carlile
Educational Consultant, School of Education, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.
Pekka Räihä
Pekka Räihä is Researcher and Teacher Educator at Department of Teacher Education, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Dr. Peter Petocz
Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Paul Bartholomew
Instructional Designer, Centre for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, Birmingham City University, England.
Dr. Rodica Niculescu
Professor of Theory and Management of Curriculum and Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education at University Transilvania of Brasov, Romania.
Dr. Sakari Saukkonen
Senior Researcher at Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Dr. Saretha Brussow
Head of Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Dr. Stuart Brand
Professor, Director, Centre for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, Birmingham City University, England.
Tamara Ball
Doctoral student in the Education Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for Adaptive Optics.
Toliwe Chehore
Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.Widya Suryadini
MT Lecturer Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung, Indonesia.
Zena Scholtz
Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.
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