In today's highly competitive and globalized higher education market, leaders and managers find themselves considering the same issues of quality assurance, increased participation, the potential of new technologies and improving standards of teaching, learning and leadership. Education development has a central role to play in these areas, and should be a core element in the strategic positioning of all higher education institutions.This book is a packed with research and proven case study material on what education development can offer managers in higher education. It draws from worldwide experiences of leading innovative educational developers, and illustrates the numerous ways in which education development strategies, structures and processes can make a difference to an institution's corporate strategy.
Author(s): Kym Fraser
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 240
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction......Page 18
1 From a community of scholars to a company Peter Ling......Page 23
2. The role of national UK organisations in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning......Page 33
3 Assuring and improving teaching quality......Page 47
4 Education development units and the enhancement of university teaching......Page 67
5 enhancement of university teaching development......Page 89
6 Alignment and synergy......Page 105
7 Integrating teaching and learning principles with IT infrastructure and policy......Page 125
8 Educating university teachers......Page 146
9 Education development......Page 173
10 Education development through funded projects......Page 184
11 Towards a profession of tertiary teaching academic attitudes in Australia Yoni Ryan Kym Fraser and John Dearn......Page 199
References......Page 215
Index......Page 233
