Resources

Give Me Time to Think (.pdf, 321KB)

Produced for the University of Oulu, Finland, and jointly authoured by Asko Karjalainen,the book outlines a model for determining student workload in higher education.

Proposed IE Skills Development Evaluation Strategy

Produced by the Centre of Academic Practice at the University of Warwick (UK), this document is useful as an example of an approach to evaluating a course for the educational skills development of HE staff involved in teaching.

Perceptions of quality and changes in teaching and learning

Abstract of paper co-authored by Barica Marentic Pozarnik. Please contact Barica for more information.

University of Limerick Workshop Programme

The University of Limerick (Ireland) don't hold an IE course, but run a well established series of Workshops.

Compulsory Higher Education Teacher Training: Joined‐up policies, institutional architectures and enhancement cultures

Abstract from a paper which looks at the effectiveness of compulsory HE training.

What the Best College Teachers do

This is a link to a book authored by Ken Bain. "What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators."

Quality in Higher Education

The November 2006 isue ( vol 12, no. 3) includes articles on: International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education; Sets of Standards for External Quality Assurance Agencies: A comparison; The European Standards and Guidelines and the Evaluation of Agencies in Germany. If you have access it is available online via the Taylor and Francis web site.

European Consortium for Accreditation in higher education (ECA)

"The ultimate aim of ECA is the achievement of mutual recognition of accreditation decisions among the participants before the end of 2007."

Short film: Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding

Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding" is an award-winning film about university and tertiary teaching generally. We follow Susan and Robert in their studies. Susan, a model student, uses learning activities that deepen her understanding, while Robert, not academically inclined, uses low level activities that only just scrape him a pass. The teaching challenge is to engage Robert to study at a deep level too. The key is the principle of "Constructive Alignment", which builds our knowledge of how humans learn into the design of teaching. The learning activities needed to achieve the intended outcomes are embedded in both teaching and assessment. Robert now has the support and incentive to learn like Susan does.

Approaches to teaching