This book explores the challenges of improving the student experience in
higher education through a 'third space' perspective.
This key text studies a variety of approaches by drawing on higher
education policy, interviews with academics working in third space roles
in higher education in the UK, France, Germany, Holland, North America
and Italy, as well as auto-ethnographic narratives. The chapters
consider key topical areas affecting student experience including
academic support, assessment and feedback, creative approaches to
pedagogy, approaches to supporting international students and students
as partners. This work offers further insights into the way in which the
'third space' roles are so important to the functioning of higher
education institutions and the ways in which the improvement of the
student experience is inexorably intertwined with those in such roles.
With evaluative and practice-based insights into embedding institutional
changes to improve student outcomes, this book bridges the gap between
academia and administration and is ideal reading for anyone interested
in improving the student experience within their institution.