Nicola Beer

SFHEA

Principal Lecturer, Head of Digital Inclusive Curriculum Enhancement

Role

I joined Oxford Brookes in January 2022 and work strategically to create and lead opportunities for programme teams to improve their curricula, ensuring that they exploit the best of Oxford Brookes digital tools, systems and platforms, and support all students to benefit from HE.

Research

Research interests

Teaching and Learning in HE.
Design thinking in HE.
Collaborative Online International Learning.
Online pedagogies.
Student partnership in HE.

Groups

Higher Education and Lifelong Learning.

Publications

Dalrymple R, Pritchard J, Potter J, Kitchener M, Beer N, IDEAS: Developing a 'travelling companion' model of inclusive curriculum development
Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice 11 (2) (2023) pp.18-23 ISSN: 2051-9788 IDEAS: Developing a 'travelling companion' model of inclusive curriculum development Open Access version on RADAR
Beer N, Blended professionals: the problem of legitimacy for UK librarians as teachers in Higher Education
Library and Information Research (2022) ISSN: 2752-7336 eISSN: 1756-1086 Blended professionals: the problem of legitimacy for UK librarians as teachers in Higher Education Open Access version on RADAR
Beer N, Designing a Rubric to Measure Elements of Transformative Learning in Online Learning: A Case Study of a FutureLearn MOOC
Journal of Interactive Media in Education 2019 (1) (2019) ISSN: 1365-893X eISSN: 1365-893X

Papageorgiou V, Beer N, Bryant P, Lameras P, Varga-Atkins T, Reframing Digital Capabilities in Higher Education
in Anna McNamara, Dominic Mahon, Vasiliki Papageorgiou, Janet Ramdeo (ed.), Inspire: Learning for Teaching in Higher Education, Nova Publishers (2024) ISBN: 9798891136816 eISBN: 9798891137608 Reframing Digital Capabilities in Higher Education Open Access version on RADAR

Professional information

Conferences

Selected conference papers

Beer, N. (2019). Estimating student workload during the learning design of online courses: Creating a student workload calculator. In European Conference on e-Learning (pp. 629-XI). Academic Conferences International Limited.
Fowle, W., and Beer, N. (2023) IDEAS for developing an inclusive curriculum. 7th Biennial International Conference on Access and Participation, Open University, Online, 26 April 2023.
Beer, N. (2022) Curriculum enhancement: a Design Thinking approach, Academic Enhancement and Professional Development Nano Conference, Coventry University, Online, 24 November (invited).
Bartle, B. and Beer, N. (2003) Working with prospective students as partners, FACE; Co-constructing Education for All Conference, University of Derby, 29 June.

Further details

Academic qualifications

MSc (Distinction) (2011) Library Science, City, University of London, UK.
BA (Hons) (2009) Economics and English Studies, Oxford Brookes, UK.

Other professional recognition

Senior Fellow of Advance HE.
Senior Fellow of SEDA.
Chartered member of CILIP (MCLIP).
Churchill Fellow.
Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT).