Education Development and Leadership in Higher Education
Implementing an Institutional Strategy
Published on 18. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
238 pages
978-0-415-34969-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 '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
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
6 s/w Zeichnungen
6 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-34969-7 (9780415349697)
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Implementing an Institutional Strategy
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Implementing an Institutional Strategy
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Implementing an Institutional Strategy
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Content
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