Ako Aotearoa is a government-funded organisation committed to supporting the country’s tertiary sector teachers, trainers and educators be the best they can be for the learners' success.
Quality assurance: Access to reports & decisions on higher education institutions/programmes externally reviewed against the ESG, by EQAR-registered agency
SEDA is publishing online both on its website and on its blog one of Graham Gibbs' '53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About', with the intention of prompting debate about the underlying basis of our work. Graham has also invited a number of well respected international thinkers and writers about university teaching, and how to improve it, to each contribute one idea to the '53 Powerful ideas' collection. To comment on and discuss these ideas, have a look at our blog. Once all 53 ideas have been published, the intention is to hand over to our community and publish one idea from members each week, to continue the debate.
the Faculty Innovation Center was established in the summer of 2016 to support instructional innovation, interdisciplinary collaborations, and increased opportunities for experiential learning across campus. We also inherit a distinguished legacy of support for instructors at all stages of their careers seeking to improve the quality of their teaching and students’ learning.
NILOA assists institutions and others in discovering and adopting promising practices in the assessment of college student learning outcomes. Documenting what students learn, know and can do is of growing interest to colleges and universities, accrediting groups, higher education associations, foundations and others beyond campus, including students, their families, employers, and policy makers.
The purpose of this website is to provide a searchable online library of collegiate-level course assignments in a wide variety of academic disciplines that link to one or more proficiencies in the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP).
The CDIO™ INITIATIVE is an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineers. The framework provides students with an education stressing engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving — Designing — Implementing — Operating (CDIO) real-world systems and products. Throughout the world, CDIO Initiative collaborators have adopted CDIO as the framework of their curricular planning and outcome-based assessment. CDIO collaborators recognize that an engineering education is acquired over a long period and in a variety of institutions, and that educators in all parts of this spectrum can learn from practice elsewhere. The CDIO network therefore welcomes members in a diverse range of institutions ranging from research-led internationally acclaimed universities to local colleges dedicated to providing students with their initial grounding in engineering.
The government have published the highly anticipated consultation document on the future of UK higher education titled “Fulfilling Our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice” which outlines key changes for the sector including the Teaching Excellence Framework, an Office for Students, and tweaks to research funding and assessment. Here we have compiled pieces previously featured on the LSE Impact Blog which provide background to the ongoing consultation and changes proposed
The Experience of Learning was first published in 1984 and interest in its content remains buoyant; it continues to be regularly cited by researchers, teachers and others concerned with the pedagogy of higher education.
However, the book is currently out of print and the editors have made the book's contents widely and freely available on the internet.
Established in 2012, the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University seeks to transform teaching through mentoring, innovative practices, collaboration, scholarship, and advocacy. The CTE actively engages faculty, staff, students, and community partners, and brings them into conversation to achieve excellence in teaching and learning. We seek to enhance and promote the strong teaching culture at Rice, which is a core value of our institution.
Welcome to the Assessment Resources at HKU. This is the home for conceptual and practical information relating to the development, innovation and research for assessment in higher education. Based on the results of institutional surveys conducted in universities around the world, assessment and feedback continue to be identified as the major challenges in teaching and learning. Despite various ongoing initiatives to improve on assessment and feedback in higher education, it would inevitably takes time to ignite changes in pedagogical practices. It is hoped that AR@HKU can act as a resource platform to facilitate, accelerate and promote a global move towards good practices in assessment and feedback. In this website you will be able to exchange ideas and find various strategies and descriptive details for assessing your students whether they are in groups, individuals, large class settings or through online assessment. You will also find ways for evaluating your teaching and tips for students on how to ace certain assessments.