Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Reflective practice in an online global learning community

This session will explore the experience of integrating the development of skills in reflective practice into wholly online professional development postgraduate programmes for a global community of public policy and management specialists. While reflective practice is very well-established in fields such as Nursing and Social Work its potential to contribute in other professional fields has received comparatively less attention. Research with alumni of these programmes into the benefits of simultaneous work and study (Brooks and Roberts 2015) identified the need to embed into these programmes the concept of reflective practice. The session will report on a project designed to achieve this within a diverse global learning community.