Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Changing world, changing higher education / Jussi Välimaa, Päivi Tynjälä and Gillian Boulton-Lewis
  • Mode 3, academic capitalism and the new economy : making higher education work for whom? / Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter
  • Analysing the relationship between higher education institutions and working life in a Nordic context / Jussi Välimaa
  • Bringing industry and academia closer together : the introduction of the foundation degree in the UK / Barbara Zamorski
  • From university to working life : graduates' workplace skills in practice / Päivi Tynjälä [and others]
  • Polytechnic graduates' working-life skills and expertise / Marja-Leena Stenström
  • A typology of the knowledge demonstrated by beginning professionals / Cathrine Le Maister and Anthony Paré
  • Employment and part-time higher education : socio-economic and pedagogical perspectives on increasing participation / Alsion Fuller
  • Distributed mentoring in communities of practice / Anthony Paré and Cathrine Le Maistre
  • Changing workplace environments, conceptions and patterns of learning : implications for university teaching / Gillian Boulton-Lewis, Hitendra Pillay and Lynn Wilss
  • The two-fold role of epistemological beliefs in higher education : a review of research about innovation in universities / Jasmina Hasanbegovic [and others]
  • Practice-oriented methods in teaching and learning in higher education : theory and empirical evidence / Jörg Markowitsch and Karin Messerer
  • Work-related project as a learning environment / Laura Helle, Päivi Tynjälä and Pirkko Vesterinen
  • Learning in project-based extension training? / Laura Helle, Tiina Tuominen and Erkki Olkinuora
  • Employability : approaches to developing student career awareness and reflective practice in undergraduate business studies / Bill Johnston and Aileen Watson
  • Online learning-through-work leading to university degrees : a case study / John Stephenson and Judy Saxton.