Teaching Excellence In Higher Education

Author : Alan Skelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134140664

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International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Alan Skelton Pdf

There has been an explosion of interest in teaching excellence in higher education. Once labelled the ‘poor relation’ of the research/teaching divide, teaching is now firmly on the policy agenda; pressure on institutions to improve the quality of teaching has never been greater and significant funding seeks to promote teaching excellence in higher education institutions. This book constitutes the first serious scrutiny of how and why it should be achieved. International perspectives from educational researchers, award winning teachers, practitioners and educational developers consider key topics, including: policy initiatives research-led teaching teaching excellence and scholarship the significance of academic disciplines research into teaching excellence rewarding through promotion inclusive learning and ICT. Teaching Excellence in Higher Education provides a guide for all those supporting, promoting and trying to achieve teaching excellence in higher education and sets the scene for teaching excellence as a field for serious investigation and critical enquiry.

Author : Christine Broughan,Graham Steventon,Lynn Clouder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351812122

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Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence by Christine Broughan,Graham Steventon,Lynn Clouder Pdf

Teaching excellence in higher education needs to be promoted and celebrated. However, a universal definition of excellent teaching remains elusive, and robust evidence about how it affects student learning appears to be lacking. This timely book explores the notion of teaching excellence from the viewpoint of a variety of international authors; guiding the reader to understand the complex terrain in which teaching excellence is foregrounded, and highlighting a number of key issues facing the future of global higher education. Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence explores: what is meant by teaching excellence, whether it can be measured and if so, how? the impact of teaching excellence frameworks, initiatives and awards. the new challenges for delivering global teaching excellence fit for the 21st century. With a mix of political, theoretical and applied research foci, each chapter also includes a short critical commentary from international experts in the field to further the debate and situate the topics in a wider context. Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence is essential reading for academic and education policymakers, researchers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in education.

Author : Alan Skelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134317622

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Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Alan Skelton Pdf

What makes a university teacher 'excellent'? As debates rage about whether this is down to subject knowledge, communication skills, taking a research-led approach or being a technological whiz, this book provides the first in-depth examination of teaching excellence in higher education. Identifying and examining interpretations of teaching excellence, it considers what ‘excellent’ means and implies for practice.

Author : A. M. Skelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59335073

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Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by A. M. Skelton Pdf

Author : Amanda French,Matt O'Leary
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787147614

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Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Amanda French,Matt O'Leary Pdf

This book offers inter-disciplinary, evidence-informed discussion around notions of excellence in higher education teaching. It will act as a key stimulus for institutional and sector-wide debates and a reference point for initiatives around the TEF agenda.

Author : Marion Heron,Laura Barnett,Kieran Balloo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030691585

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Exploring Disciplinary Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Marion Heron,Laura Barnett,Kieran Balloo Pdf

This book explores disciplinary teaching excellence through a diverse range of student-staff partnership research projects. Despite being a highly contested term, ‘teaching excellence’ is something that universities aspire to and are expected to have. However, the editors and contributors argue that not only are definitions of excellence often broad and generic, but they lack nuanced understandings of disciplinary excellence in higher education. This book begins by unpacking some of these contested definitions of teaching excellence, followed by a series of co-authored chapters produced by students and staff who have undertaken research projects where they examine teaching excellence in their respective disciplinary areas. These chapters demonstrate that teaching excellence may be better understood as a process of becoming that is achieved through partnership between teachers and students. This book will be of interest and value to students, educators, and policy-makers concerned about teaching excellence, as well as scholars of student-staff partnerships.

Author : Christine Broughan,Graham Steventon,Lynn Clouder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351812139

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Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence by Christine Broughan,Graham Steventon,Lynn Clouder Pdf

Teaching excellence in higher education needs to be promoted and celebrated. However, a universal definition of excellent teaching remains elusive, and robust evidence about how it affects student learning appears to be lacking. This timely book explores the notion of teaching excellence from the viewpoint of a variety of international authors; guiding the reader to understand the complex terrain in which teaching excellence is foregrounded, and highlighting a number of key issues facing the future of global higher education. Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence explores: what is meant by teaching excellence, whether it can be measured and if so, how? the impact of teaching excellence frameworks, initiatives and awards. the new challenges for delivering global teaching excellence fit for the 21st century. With a mix of political, theoretical and applied research foci, each chapter also includes a short critical commentary from international experts in the field to further the debate and situate the topics in a wider context. Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence is essential reading for academic and education policymakers, researchers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in education.

Author : Amanda French,Kate Carruthers Thomas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1787695360

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Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework by Amanda French,Kate Carruthers Thomas Pdf

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)'s aims, implementation and effect on the English higher education sector remains a controversial and often contested subject. This text offers a stimulating and wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of the implications of the TEF on the UK's fast-moving policy environment, and increasingly neoliberal higher education sector. Questioning the basic premise of the TEF, the authors tease out how students and staff are affected in different and often unfair ways by its implementation. Whilst acknowledging that the TEF has focused management attention on ways in which a diverse student population is, or is not, supported in their learning, this book highlights how it remains problematically silent on other kinds of diversity in the system such as specialised courses, diverse teaching styles, and varying institution sizes. Offering readers ways of rethinking and resisting 'teaching excellence', this book provides a timely examination of how, in various ways, the TEF, seen as an exclusionary quality assurance system, is likely to reinforce extant structural inequalities and competitive hierarchies in the sector.

Author : Marshall Gregory,Melissa Valiska Gregory
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137373762

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Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Marshall Gregory,Melissa Valiska Gregory Pdf

Marshall Gregory argues that teachers at the university and high school levels can achieve teaching excellence by grounding their teaching in pedagogical theory that takes into account students' abilities and the ultimate goals of teaching: to develop students' capacities for thought, reflection, questioning, and engagement to their fullest extent.

Author : Peter Kahn,Lorraine Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429955341

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Developing Your Teaching by Peter Kahn,Lorraine Anderson Pdf

Packed with advice, vignettes and case studies, as well as useful tips and checklists for improving teaching, the second edition of Developing Your Teaching is the ideal toolkit to support the development of teaching practice. Providing a blend of ideas, interactive review points and case study examples from university teachers, this accessible handbook for professional practice provides ideas on a range of topics including: learning from student feedback and peer review students as consumers and their expectations building effective partnerships with students and colleagues developing a teaching portfolio choosing effective teaching practices the challenges and benefits of securing an initial teacher qualification A must-read for all those new to teaching in higher education, as well as more experienced lecturers looking to refresh and advance the quality of their teaching, this fully updated new edition is the ideal toolkit to support the development of teaching practice.

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000551327

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Developing Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education by Helen King Pdf

This book provides a contemporary view of the characteristics of expertise for teaching in higher education, based on the strong foundation of research into expertise, and empirical and practical knowledge of the development of teaching in higher education. Taking key themes related to the characteristics of expertise, this edited collection delivers practical ideas for supporting and enabling professional learning and development in higher education as well as theoretical constructs for the basis of personal reflection on practice. Providing an accessible, evidence-informed theoretical framework designed to support individuals wishing to improve their teaching, Developing Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education considers teaching excellence from an expertise perspective and discusses how it might be supported and available to all. It invites a call to action to all policymakers and strategic leaders who make a claim for teaching excellence to consider how professional learning and the development of expertise can be embedded in the culture, environment and ways of working in higher education institutions. Full of practical examples, based on scholarship and experience, to guide individual teachers, educational developers and policymakers in higher education, this book is a must-read text for those new to teaching in higher education and those looking to improve their practice.

Author : Lawrence A. Tomei,James A. Bernauer,Anthony Moretti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475826135

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Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence by Lawrence A. Tomei,James A. Bernauer,Anthony Moretti Pdf

Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence: A Case Study Using the Integrated Readiness Matrix builds on the 2015 text, Integrating Pedagogy and Technology: Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education with a focus on teaching in higher education. Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence is premised on our contention in the first book that, while individual faculty members can independently begin to use the IRM to improve their pedagogical and technological skills in their content areas, an organizational structure is needed to sustain ongoing improvement. In addition, while the first book provided a primer on learning theory as it relates to pedagogy, Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence plumbs this topic more deeply from the perspective of the college instructor. Further, the second book is dedicated to demonstrating how the IRM can be institutionalized as the foundation for providing the structure and support to faculty and how they can help shape centers for teaching excellence by becoming more familiar with relevant learning theories and related pedagogical and technological approaches.

Author : Alan Skelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:851293053

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International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Alan Skelton Pdf

Author : Amanda French,Kate Carruthers Thomas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787695337

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Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework by Amanda French,Kate Carruthers Thomas Pdf

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)’s aims, implementation and effect on the English higher education sector remains a controversial and contested subject. This text offers a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of the implications of the TEF on the UK’s fast-moving policy environment, and increasingly neoliberal higher education sector.

Author : Margaret Wood,Feng Su
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : College teaching
ISBN : 135005531X

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Pursuing Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Margaret Wood,Feng Su Pdf

"Teaching excellence is a topic of international significance, having importance for higher education worldwide, yet is generally considered to be poorly defined and understood. The current discourse of teaching excellence is narrowly framed, instrumental and performative, with an onus on measurement and quantification. Rallying against this narrowness, Wood and Su unpack the notion of excellence in higher education and argue for a rethinking, seeking to connect with ideas of the value of higher education in a democratic society and proposing an approach which promotes the inclusion of understandings from the perspectives of higher education stakeholders. They examine teaching excellence through different lenses by engaging a plurality of stakeholder perspectives, including higher education institutions, academics, students, employers and parents, and highlight the importance of engaging different stakeholders in discussions about teaching excellence in higher education. Whilst creating the conditions for public debate and stakeholder engagement is challenging, the authors argue that it is a vital task, and especially necessary at a time when performativity and measurement hold sway and detract from a focus on the processes of teaching and learning. The authors argue that through engaging with higher education constituencies to examine teaching excellence from different angles and stances that more inclusive understandings can be built."--