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Research Informed Teaching

Research informed teaching serves to promote student engagement in discipline-based research. Griffiths (2004) and Healey (2005) state that teaching can be research-informed by being:

  • Research-led: curriculum content is linked to staff research interests and information transmission is the main teaching mode to teach students about discipline content research findings;
  • Research-oriented: curriculum emphasises the processes by which knowledge is produced and staff try to engender a research ethos through their teaching so students learn about research processes;
  • Research-based: curriculum is largely designed around inquiry-based activities and the division of roles between teacher and student is minimised so that students learn as researchers;
  • Research tutored research findings are discussed and learned in small group settings with teacher and students.

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How to do it guide

This guide gives you practical advice, and examples, about how to implement RIT.

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