Practical Strategies

Some of the practical and pragmatic ways in which to achieve the teaching-learning-research nexus are to:

• Attend a key conference in your discipline and post your session notes on your iLearn site.
• Sign-up for research alerts from Websites in your discipline. Forward relevant alerts on to your students.
• Subscribe to an A-status research journal in your discipline and create research summaries for your students.
• Ensure that the key information you present is referenced in scholarly literature. Regularly update these references and check that your internet links are still active.
• On your Subject Outline, explicitly specify that students are required to use current (and seminal) peer-reviewed literature to inform their assignments.
• Teach the students about the methods that were used to derive the information that you are presenting.
• Direct the students to blogs written by key researchers in your discipline.
• Present your own research process and outcomes to your students and invite them to critique your methods, results, and application.
• Consider inviting guest speakers who are in the process of conducting research in your discipline.
• To add some variety to your lectures, you might organise a mini conference poster session, whereby each of your students prepares and presents a poster on a recent empirical contribution to your discipline.