Towards quality teaching in higher education: pedagogy-focused academic development for enhancing practice

Title: Towards quality teaching in higher education: pedagogy-focused academic development for enhancing practice
Creator: Patfield, Sally; Gore, Jennifer; Prieto, Elena; Fray, Leanne; Sincock, Kristina
Relation: International Journal for Academic Development Vol. -, Issue 28 July 2022, p. 1-16
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360144x.2022.2103561
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2022
Description: Academics are under increasing pressure to demonstrate effective teaching. However, teaching reforms are often more concerned with quality assurance than instructional improvement. This paper draws on qualitative data from academics at one Australian university to explore perceived impacts of an academic development program which used an evidence-based pedagogical framework, the Quality Teaching Model (QTM), to enhance conceptual understandings of quality teaching. Participants reported direct benefits to analysing practice, course planning, collegial collaboration, and improving the student experience. We argue that the QTM holds considerable potential for helping shift attention from managing quality to realising quality in higher education.
Subject: quality teaching; quality teaching model; pedagogy; academic development
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449308
Identifier: uon:43635
Identifier: ISSN:1360-144X
Language: eng
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