Paterson, Terrie, Prideaux, Murray, and Welters, Riccardo (2025) Developing an evidence-based pedagogical framework through investigation of current practice in teaching employability skills inherent to online groupwork. Higher Education Research & Development. (In Press)

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Abstract

Teaching implicit employability skills in higher education is challenged by the dearth of scholarly literature and institutional structures promoting and supporting a common pedagogical approach. A need to gather empirical evidence of current pedagogical approaches exists so that a pedagogical framework can be developed to support teaching academics in their design and facilitation of integrative teaching. To achieve an empirically evidenced framework this research employs a grounded theory methodology to examine the teaching of online collaboration (online groupwork) skills in the context of online undergraduate business programs. This paper reports on pedagogical content knowledge data analysed from in-depth interviews of online teaching business academics. Pedagogical concepts and related strategies are discovered, educational theories supporting pedagogical concepts are discussed, and a framework is proposed.

Item ID:	89114
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1469-8366
Copyright Information:	© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Date Deposited:	13 Oct 2025 23:13
FoR Codes:	39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development @ 60% 39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390103 Economics, business and management curriculum and pedagogy @ 40%
SEO Codes:	16 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 1603 Teaching and curriculum > 160302 Pedagogy @ 40% 16 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 1601 Learner and learning > 160102 Higher education @ 60%
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