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Editorial 099-104 ALH-077983.qxd 31/5/07 1:46 PM Page 99 Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore) Vol 8(2): 99–104 DOI: 10.1177/1469787407077983 LYNNE P. BALDWIN Brunel University, UK Universities are tasked to fulfil many roles in society, and what is meant by ‘academic life’ is not a simple thing to define. It varies from country to coun- try, institution to institution, and even from department to department within the same institution. For new undergraduate students, their view of a university is normally that it is an institution whose main function is teach- ing, and that lecturers are for the most part concerned with, and spend their time dealing with, issues related to learning and teaching. This is reinforced, in some ways, by the design of many university websites, where ‘courses/ programmes’ features prominently. First-year students often view a university as a kind of ‘big school’, the next one ‘up’ from that which many of them have recently left, far bigger in size, naturally enough, and all the more daunting for being so. They notice that new terminology such as ‘lecturer’, ‘lecture theatre’ and ‘seminar’ seem to be replacements for the familiar ‘teacher’, ‘class- room’ and ‘class’ of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Active Learning in Higher Education SAGE

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Baldwin, Lynne P.
Active Learning in Higher Education , Volume 8 (2): 6 – Jul 1, 2007
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099-104 ALH-077983.qxd 31/5/07 1:46 PM Page 99 Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore) Vol 8(2): 99–104 DOI: 10.1177/1469787407077983 LYNNE P. BALDWIN Brunel University, UK Universities are tasked to fulfil many roles in society, and what is meant by ‘academic life’ is not a simple thing to define. It varies from country to coun- try, institution to institution, and even from department to department within the same institution. For new undergraduate students, their view of a university is normally that it is an institution whose main function is teach- ing, and that lecturers are for the most part concerned with, and spend their time dealing with, issues related to learning and teaching. This is reinforced, in some ways, by the design of many university websites, where ‘courses/ programmes’ features prominently. First-year students often view a university as a kind of ‘big school’, the next one ‘up’ from that which many of them have recently left, far bigger in size, naturally enough, and all the more daunting for being so. They notice that new terminology such as ‘lecturer’, ‘lecture theatre’ and ‘seminar’ seem to be replacements for the familiar ‘teacher’, ‘class- room’ and ‘class’ of

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