Work-in-progress: Research context enhanced learning experience: Reflection from a case study

Abstract

The relationship between teaching and research in the modern higher education has been addressed worldwide and gradually reflected in many institutional strategies of delivering the mission of synergizing research and teaching through initiating the awareness of this nexus. However it appears less evidence to validate most of these long term strategies in routine teaching practice. This work presents a small case study to design personal research context into the teaching and learning practice. The productivity of this study helps to examine the pathway of developing research context into teaching practice, and reveals the complexity and feasibility of research-enhanced teaching in terms of the cost of academic's time, the benefit of learning experience, and the way research, learning and teaching inform each other.