Educational development units: the challenge of quality enhancement in a changing environment

Beckton, Julian (2009) Educational development units: the challenge of quality enhancement in a changing environment. In: The future of higher education: policy, pedagogy and the student experience. Continuum, London, pp. 57-68. ISBN 1847064736

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Educational development units: the challenge of quality enhancement in a changing environment.
Reviews the role of the Educational Development Unit in the 21st Century University and suggests that such units may find it more effective to focus on examining the internal needs of their organisation than on attempting to pursue externally imposed agendas
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Reviews the role of the Educational Development Unit and suggests that such units should focus primarily on building a learning environment appropriate to its host university, rather than paying a disproportionate amounts of attention to externally imposed targets. A unit should not of course ignore those targets, rather it should endeavour to manage them in a way that meets the work patterns of its own institution.

Additional Information:Reviews the role of the Educational Development Unit and suggests that such units should focus primarily on building a learning environment appropriate to its host university, rather than paying a disproportionate amounts of attention to externally imposed targets. A unit should not of course ignore those targets, rather it should endeavour to manage them in a way that meets the work patterns of its own institution.
Keywords:Higher Education, educational development units, bmjlink
Subjects:X Education > X342 Academic studies in Higher Education
Divisions:College of Social Science > School of Education
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Deposited On:16 Dec 2008 08:52

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