1st Edition
Education Development and Leadership in Higher Education Implementing an Institutional Strategy
Edited By Kym Fraser
Copyright 2005
238 Pages
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Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
List of illustrations, Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 From a community of scholars to a company, 2 The role of national UK organisations in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning, 3 Assuring and improving teaching quality, 4 Education development units and the enhancement of university teaching, 5 Decentralised approaches to education development: supporting quality teaching and learning from within a faculty, 6 Alignment and synergy: leadership and education development, 7 Integrating teaching and learning principles with IT infrastructure and policy, 8 Educating university teachers: participation and access issues for students who have a disability, 9 Education development: the role of graduate university teaching programmes, 10 Education development through funded projects, 11 Towards a profession of tertiary teaching: academic attitudes in Australia, References, Index
Biography
Kym Fraser
'Reading this book will provide a better understanding of the challenges we face and will offer some useful ideas for starting to bring about cultural change.' - Alan Hurst, The Skill Journal, November 2005
'This book provides a lot of pleasant, thought-provoking reading.' - British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 38 No 1 2007
