Enhancing Graduate Employability:
The Roles of Learning and Teaching, Research and Knowledge Transfer
For the first time the annual Learning and Teaching Conference was combined with a Centre for Research and Knowledge Transfer staff development day to become a single high profile event.
The Conference was held on the 10th May 2005 in the Poole House Lecture Theatres and the Staff Common Room.
Hosted by The Learning Design Studio (LDS) and the Centre for Research and Knowledge Transfer (CRKT) the main aims of the Conference were:
To open up the debate on what is employability, and to articulate and review the University's model of employability.
To demonstrate how learning and teaching, research and knowledge transfer activities contribute to enhancing graduate employability.
Dr Peter Knight
Director of the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University.
Workshops and materials 2005
A range of workshops were run as a part of the conference, these were based around learning and teachning, research, and knowledge transfer in relation to graduate employability. More...
Barnett, R. and Coate, K. (2005) Engaging the Curriculum in Higher Education. Maidenhead: Society for Research into Higher Education and the Open University Press.
Knight, P. T. and Yorke, M. (2004) Learning, Curriculum and Employability. London: Routledge/Falmer.
Pascarella, E.T. and Terenzini, P.T. (2005). How college affects students (Vol 2): A third decade of research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Yorke, M and Knight, P. T. (2004) Employability: judging and communicating achievement. York: the Learning and Teaching Support Network.
