Bringing a new culture of learning into higher education

Abstract

Accelerated social, economical, technological and cultural change largely driven by global digitalisation and networking invites us to scrutinise and reconsider the theoretical assumptions underpinning our contemporary teaching approaches in higher education. This paper explicates the authors' rationale and its underlying assumptions for designing and implementing interventions into current teaching and studying practices to foster the emergence of a "new culture of learning" in formal higher education. It discusses the role of conversational tools and procedures for coaching students in this context and the personal barriers the authors' have experienced in a series of intervention studies in the field. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.