Quality Management of Academic Development Work: Implementation issues and challenges
Title:
Quality Management of Academic Development Work: Implementation issues and challenges
Author:
Gray, Kathleen Radloff, Alex
Appeared in:
International journal for academic development
Paging:
Volume 11 (2006) nr. 2 pages 79-90
Year:
2006-11-01
Contents:
This paper summarises current ideas about the place of academic development in the twenty-first century university. It focuses on aligning the leadership and management of academic development work with the 'ownership' of such work by its key stakeholders—teaching academics, university management and the wider academic development community—and with an institutional quality agenda. It offers insights taken from the authors' experiences in one AD unit over a five-year period, and from the diverse perspectives on its work held by various stakeholders, into critical issues that underlie efforts to improve the management of academic development. It outlines the challenges in trying to elucidate the work of academic development within a quality management framework and argues for advancing its work through clearer articulation of its principles, standards, performance tracking and intended impact. Cet article dresse un bilan des idees courantes en ce qui a trait au role du developpement pedagogique au sein de l'universite du 21e siecle. L'article etablit un lien entre le leadership et la gestion des programmes de developpement pedagogique, et la 'propriete' de ces programmes par les participants—le personnel enseignant, les administrateurs universitaires et la communaute du developpement pedagogique dans son ensemble—de meme que les orientations institutionnelles en matiere de qualite. L'article repose sur l'experience des auteurs, acquise au sein d'un centre de developpement pedagogique durant cinq annees, de meme que sur l'experience des divers partenaires en ce qui a trait aux activites du centre de developpement pedagogique, et nous eclaire sur les efforts entrepris pour ameliorer la gestion du developpement pedagogique. L'article elabore au sujet des defis que pose le developpement pedagogique dans un contexte de gestion de la qualite et soutient que le developpement des activites en matiere de developpement pedagogique passe par une clarification des principes, des standards, du suivi de la performance et de l'impact envisage.
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