Developing Effective Part-time Teachers in Higher Education

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Preface Tony Brand Acknowledgements Fran Beaton and Amanda Gilbert 1. Introduction: The Bigger Picture: the expansion of part-time teaching in HE and its consequences Amanda Gilbert Section 1. Context: An Overview of the Nature and Motivation of Part-time Teachers 2. Who are these people and why are they important? Bland Tomkinson 3. Determining the support needs of casual staff at the frontline Bronwyn Bevan-Smith, Jayne Keogh, Louise Kuchel and Bruce D'Arcy Section 2. Policy and Practice: First part - Developing Policy and Practice to Support Part-Time Teachers 4. Policy and practice to support part-time teachers at scale: the experience of the UK's Open University Anne Gaskell Second part - Developing Part-time Programmes to Support Part-time Teachers 5. What makes a really good support programme for part-time lecturers in Higher Education? Anne Lee 6. Developing scholarly tutors Kathryn Sutherland & Meegan Hall 7. How do we know it works? Coralie McCormack,Patricia Kelly, and Peter Donnan Third part- Focus on different types of part-time teachers 8. Welcome on Board Louise Wilson 9. Tutoring Online Pam Parker and Neil Sumner 10. All take and no give? Karen Starr Section 3. Implications and Future Directions 11. Building sustainable frameworks for the engagement and development of casual teaching staff Muyessur Durur 12. Academic Leadership: integrating part-timers into a team Shan Wareing 13. Future directions Fran Beaton