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Developing and Supporting Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

Sue Robson

Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

ISBN: 978-1-78714-762-1, eISBN: 978-1-78714-761-4

Publication date: 21 December 2017

Abstract

This chapter considers the opportunities and challenges for HE to develop, support and celebrate excellent teaching. Drawing on conceptualisations of teaching excellence in quality frameworks and in the literature, it considers how teaching quality has traditionally been interpreted, suggesting (as in Chapter 2) that there is a need for more nuanced and comprehensive understandings of teaching excellence to be developed, demonstrated, recognised and rewarded, to reflect the complex nature of teaching excellence across the academic career profile. It considers how institutions might build and communicate shared understandings of excellence in teaching and promote a culture in which excellence at all levels of teaching is valued in the same way as research. It discusses the ways in which the professional learning and support needs of academics can be met at various stages of the academic career, to develop in teaching faculty and education leaders a sense of being appreciated, connected and competent in their contribution and commitment to teaching excellence.

Keywords

  • Teaching excellence
  • Quality
  • Higher education
  • Professional learning

Citation

Robson, S. (2017), "Developing and Supporting Teaching Excellence in Higher Education", French, A. and O’Leary, M. (Ed.) Teaching Excellence in Higher Education (Great Debates in Higher Education), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 109-136. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-761-420171007

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