Download or read book From Pedagogy to Quality Assurance in Education written by Heidi Flavian and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly global world, it is more important than ever that educators are equipped to respond to the needs of international student cohorts. This book is a fruitful resource for researchers, educators, and others, who wish to develop new approaches and educational models to contribute to the efficient process of learning.

Download or read book Quality Work in Higher Education written by Mari Elken and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on quality work in higher education, and examines the relationship between the organizational and pedagogical dimensions of quality work in higher education. Bringing together different disciplinary traditions, including educational science, sociology, and organisational studies, it addresses the following principal research question: How is quality work carried out in higher education? The book addresses a wide variety of academic, administrative and leadership practices that are involved in quality work in higher education institutions. The chapters in this book examine core issues crucial in the design and content of study programs, such as modes of teaching, learning and curricula design, as well as institutional practices regarding assessment and quality enhancement. The introductory and concluding chapter present an overarching focus on quality work as a lens to analyse intentional activities within higher education institutions directed at how study programmes and courses are designed, governed, and operated.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Operational Quality Assurance in Higher Education for Life Long Learning written by Nuninger, Walter and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously, key levers of higher education have seemed to be the learning organization, work-integrated learning for life-long learning, and learner-centered pedagogy. However, funding evolution and the integration of digital tools are changing professional styles and learning behaviors. Nonetheless, the sustainability of higher education requires quality agreement based on ethical, robust, and replicable pedagogical approaches. The Handbook of Research on Operational Quality Assurance in Higher Education for Life-Long Learning is a comprehensive scholarly book that focuses on the evolution of the education framework and job market as well as necessary changes needed in organizations to reply to life-long learning and competency-based training initiatives. Highlighting topics such as digital environment, e-learning, and learning analytics, this book is essential for higher education faculty, managers, deans, professionals, administrators, educators, academicians, researchers, and policymakers.

Download or read book Quality Assurance in Higher Education written by Don F. Westerheijden and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on the same subject. Containing comprehensive discussion of the most relevant trends in quality assurance regulation, translation and transformation, researchers and policy makers will find an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements.

Download or read book Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence in Higher Education written by Ahmed Odeh Al Jaber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality Assurance is not a new concept in the education sector in general, and higher education in particular, though it is becoming increasingly more relevant and important. Higher education helps to improve an individual's quality of life by enabling them to inflate their knowledge and expertise, to grasp abstract concepts and theories, and to raise their awareness of the world and their community, and as such the assurance of quality is becoming more pivotal in the whole education process.There is no simple definition of the concept of quality in education, though numerous models and theories have been devised. Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence of Higher Education is a new episode of the Quality Assurance perception in higher education, which identifies the quality culture and orientation from the beginning, integrating crucial factors to build a “pyramid” of higher education excellence. The book compares concepts from the main theories of Quality Assurance, management and control when they are applied to educational systems in higher education. The book also presents a new model of excellence in higher education. Excellence is an architecture of building blocks that comes with process performance, effectiveness, harmony and collaboration which should be incorporated in a quality-oriented concept of a sustainable excellence of higher education. The model integrates four main facets: the Educational System, Quality Assurance Managing and Control, Strategic Planning and Globalization. Also presented are international “best-practices” in quality assurance in higher education, from Japan and Finland.

Download or read book Excellence and Quality in Education written by Joseph I. Zajda and published by James Nicholas Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some of the central issues in the definition and evaluation of excellence and quality in education. Using comparative and international methodology, the contributors from around the world highlight and discuss some of the key factors of the quality debate at national, institutional and classroom levels. Excellence and Quality in Education offers an invaluable insight into the current polemics surrounding the technocratic push for quality in education.

Download or read book Quality in TESOL and Teacher Education written by Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes a holistic view of the current trends and challenges in quality and quality assurance in TESOL and teacher education. Bringing together top scholars in the field from all over the world, the text features invaluable international perspectives with the common objective of improving the quality in TESOL and teacher education in constantly changing and challenging educational contexts globally. Grouped into four wide-ranging, thematic sections – on multilingualism, diversity, teacher education, and future challenges – the book addresses new obstacles faced by educational professionals in today’s rapidly changing educational landscape by offering alternatives to quantitative targets. Chapter authors cover a range of contexts and timely issues, including technology in the classroom, culturally relevant teaching, teaching for continuous improvement, professional development, and monitoring and evaluating quality. Providing a forum of discussion on the intricacies, complexities, and challenges related to the urgent question of quality in the field, this book is a must-read for prospective ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators.

Download or read book QualiTraining written by Laura Mureșan and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing interest in national and regional contexts for standard-setting in areas such as evaluation, approaches to quality control and management. In the first mediumterm programme the ECML project "Quality Assurance and Self-assessment for Schools and Teachers" developed a CD-Rom entitled "Quality Management in Language Education". Building on the outcomes of this project, this publication - a training guide for teacher trainers and multipliers responsible for quality assurance in language teaching at various levels in the educational system - has been produced. The guide aims to provide them with a complementary tool for this work, linking theory to practice with illustrative case studies from a variety of sources.

Download or read book Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Peter Neema-Abooki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the critical aspect of quality assurance maintenance of competitive-standards in African higher education. It explores both the micro and macro-levels of continental African higher education regulatory authorities, and analyses different institutional, regional and national practices for moving towards continental quality assurance approaches. Contributed to by scholars across Eastern and Southern Africa, the book considers conceptual, practical, epistemological and policy dimensions of quality and quality assurance, especially in relation to higher education in Africa. It therefore draws on research and local expertise to open up debate about how to assure and enhance the quality of higher education, providing a comprehensive review of eight countries and considers societal challenges. It aims to satisfy the need of more thoughtful and critical works on African education as produced by African educators. The uniqueness of this book lies in integrating both the theoretical and practical dimensions of quality to devise appropriate strategies for ensuring quality and standards in higher education in continental Africa and beyond. This authoritative book advocates for a timely discussion around the prpvision of good quality higher education and research in African universities, and will be of great interest to academics, policy makers, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of higher education, comparative education and African studies.

Download or read book E learning quality assurance a multi perspective approach written by AA. VV. and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2015-10-12T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality in e-learning is connected to innovation, both in the human resources and technological-didactics fields. The evolution of didactics material and teaching methodology must follow the rhythm to which technological tools, students' background and cognitive models change and evolve, always remembering the basic principles of traditional pedagogy. Innovation is considered as the propulsive element determining the structure and the success of the eLearning model itself and from this perspective it is fundamental to re-think the university model, paying more attention to the influence of social and technological changes on the didactic processes. The present volume,“E-Learning Quality Assurance:A Multi-Perspective Approach”, has been conceived in the frame of a wide reflection about quality assurance in e-learning, in the context of institutionalmanagement and organization and services and contents production. All the articles included are the expression and testimony of the experiences of professionals and experts in the field and of particular institutional realities shaped on the basis of national and local standards. All the cases described represent the global effort in trying to propose different interpretations of the concept of quality and to find useful solutions to achieve it. Anna Baldazzi: Expert in Information Sciences and Research Methodology; Professor at Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi”, Rome - Italy; Scientific Coordinator of the FormaMente Review. Laura Ricci: M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures;Head of the International Relations Office at Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi”, Rome - Italy. Valentina Valle Baroz:M.A. in Humanities and Journalist; International Relations Officer at Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi”, Rome - Italy.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education written by Nuninger, Walter and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of quality and sustainability in higher education institutions ensures that proper standards are maintained. Such enforced standardization allows for the highest caliber of training opportunities for various fields and disciplines. The Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on quality management and assurance programs and standards in college-level environments. Highlighting global perspectives on academic and professional learning, this book is ideally designed for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and professionals actively involved in the field of higher education.

Download or read book The Impact of Online Academic Delivery on Quality Assurance in Private Higher Education Institutions written by Nomusa Cindi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2023 in the subject Pedagogy - School Pedagogics, , course: Academic, language: English, abstract: The following objectives will be studied in the following review paper: identifying the trends of online academic delivery in Higher Education Institutions, assessing the impact of online academic delivery on quality assurance in Higher education institutions, identifying the benefits of online academic delivery in Higher Education Institutions and identifying the challenges associated with online academic delivery in Higher Education Institutions. Virtual learning is spreading around the world. Online academic delivery has been defined to include the different methods of teaching where students and teachers are located at geographically remote locations. Demand for such services is increasing among higher education students, which according to Grawe refers to any Institution providing technical and vocational education to children, which is not provided by regular schools. Two things are important for establishing the effectiveness of such an education system. Primary among them is quality assurance, which according to Seyfried & Pohlenz is ensuring the educational process meets minimum expectations in form of results from completion. The second factor is the educational quality which according to Gupta & Yadav, is the efficiency of the total educational ecosystem within the institution which involves both technical as well as social aspects.

Download or read book Handbook of Quality Assurance for University Teaching written by Roger Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical and authoritative handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and approaches to assuring quality in university teaching. Including contributions from major international figures, the book contains a wealth of ideas and practical advice to help universities commit to quality in teaching and offers insights into how the topics raised can be directly applied. The book initially identifies some of the key issues surrounding the topic, such as the evidence-based identification of teaching quality; the training of university lecturers and faculty; external and internal quality assurance; the tension between professional autonomy and governmental regulation; and the involvement of students in developing quality. It then moves on to present ideas and initiatives to address these problems, tackling the subject through four sections: Assuring Quality - questioning what quality assurance means and how it might be practised; Identifying Quality - examining what knowledge exists at present and how it might be further researched; Developing Quality - investigating the development of staff through teacher training and appraisal; Case Studies of Quality Assurance - reviewing six case studies of quality assurance in a range of contrasting subjects including the professional subjects of Medicine, Nursing and Teacher Training which are also addressed systemically in the first section. Full of practical advice, Handbook of Quality Assurance for University Teaching is an invaluable and unique resource for Faculty, Subject Leaders, University Administrators and Quality Assessors.

Download or read book Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education written by Heather Eggins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of achieving and assuring quality in every higher education institution continues to be both relevant and urgent worldwide. This volume presents a considered discussion of a range of facets of the issue, drawing on the findings of a 3 year EU research programme involving seven countries: Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Latvia, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia and the Netherlands. Topics include access, student assessment, governance, stakeholders, academic faculty, information and the interface between the secondary and tertiary sectors. The authors, all of whom are drawn from the research teams, explore particular aspects of the research objectives. These aim to identify the drivers and overcome the barriers to establishing high quality in both European higher education, in relation to the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance and, by implication, in worldwide higher education.

Download or read book Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 1829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of quality education to students relies heavily on the actions of an institution’s administrative staff. Effective leadership strategies allow for the continued progress of modern educational initiatives. It is crucial to investigate how effective administrators lead their organizations in challenging and difficult times and promote the accomplishments of their organization. Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs is a vital reference source that offers theoretical and pedagogical research concerning the management of educational systems on both the national and international scale. It also explores academic administration as well as administrative effectiveness in achieving organizational goals. Highlighting a range of topics such as strategic planning, human resources, and school culture, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for educators, administrators, principals, superintendents, board members, researchers, academicians, policymakers, and students.

Download or read book Introducing Quality Assurance of Education for Democratic Citizenship in Schools written by Hermann Josef Abs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents an overview, from international perspectives, of the applicability and relevance of the Tool for Quality Assurance of Education for Democratic Citizenship in Schools, published jointly by UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the Center for Educational Policies. Based on 10 country reports, it examines quality assurance requirements in the field of education for democratic citizenship (EDC) and compares the specific evaluation systems in those countries. It also provides a feasibility study on relevant conditions for implementing the tool and aims to serve as a set of orientation guidelines for policy makers, a case study on implementation for researchers and a source book for education practitioners.--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Quality Assurance in Vietnamese Higher Education written by Cuong Huu Nguyen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of quality assurance in Vietnamese higher education under the centralised management of the government after 15 years of development. By implementing quality assurance and accreditation mechanisms, the Vietnamese government expected to be able to control and improve the quality of the higher education system. The editors and contributors therefore examine and analyse policies and practices related to the establishment and development of Vietnam's quality assurance system. Amongst other things, the chapters investigate drivers of quality assurance, stakeholders engaged in quality assurance and the future of quality assurance in Vietnamese higher education in benchmarking with other quality assurance systems in the region and across the world. This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of Vietnamese higher education, as well as quality assurance in higher education more generally, but particularly in developing nations.