ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on our reflections on practice-based learning. These reflections are likely to have resonance with broader questions about higher education, concerning lifelong learning, employability, assessment, and the role of the university. These questions are generating a lot of thinking and innovation directed at the future of higher education. The chapter provides a framework that suggests a view of students on a learning trajectory through a landscape of practice. These learning travellers have to find their way into and around specific practices, build an image of where these practices are located in the landscape, engage with multiple places in the landscape at once and develop an identity. In designing a course on online learning for faculty members from around the world, we spent time listening to their concerns. Whilst online learning is strategically important by the leaders of the majority of universities, many of their faculty continues to have deep concerns about the implications for their work.
