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In the context of the sustained growth and diversification of higher education systems, society’s concerns about the quality of the programmes offered to the students are increasing. Public assessments and international rankings of higher education institutions are receiving increasing attention. However these comparisons tend to over-emphasize research, using research performance as a yardstick of the institutions’ value. If these assessment processes fail to appropriately address the quality of teaching it is in part because measuring teaching quality is challenging. Quality remains an elusive, multi-dimensional area and the assessment and accreditation systems are struggling to grasp its complexity.
Objectives and benefits
Analytical focus and key questions
Project implementation
Outcomes
Upcoming meetings
"Call for contributions" and "Appel à contribution"
Objectives and benefits
The goal of the OECD-IMHE study on Quality teaching is to highlight effective quality initiatives and mechanisms and to push forward reflection or practices that may in turn help other institutions to improve the quality of their teaching and thereby, the quality of their graduates. In participating in the project, the institutions took part in an international review that collected information and benchmarks for their own purpose regarding the quality of their teaching.The role of the faculty members, of the department, of the central university and of State was analyzed, as well as the goals and scope of these initiatives. The study aimed to identify long-term improvement factors for staff, decision-making bodies and institutions, and to contribute to reflection on outcomes indicators for higher education.
Analytical focus and key questions
The areas of primary concern are:
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The drivers and debates underlying a growing attention towards quality teaching.
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The aims of the institutions when fostering quality teaching, the options and guiding philosophy taken up by the institutions when embedding a quality approach.
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The types of concrete application of quality teaching initiatives, the challenges in the implementation, the actors to involve, the needs to be met and the problems to be resolved.
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The dissemination of practices, the measurement and monitoring of progress.
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The impacts of quality teaching on teaching, research and institutional quality culture.
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The combination of approaches to enhance quality teaching in a sustainable way within the institution.
Project implementation
At the end of 2007, IMHE launched a review on the quality of teaching to better determine the diversity of initiatives and the different responses of institutions. The project thus aims to stimulate questioning within each institution and to concern a large array of staff and key players as well as external regulation or funding bodies in higher education.
To ensure the quality of the methodology on behalf of the IMHE Governing Board and provide advice at critical stages of the project, an ad hoc steering working group has been set up.
The project is being implemented in 2 phases: a first phase overviewing the institutional initiatives and policies aimed at enhancing the quality of teaching, and a second phase that explores more in detail the institutional experiences and approaches to quality teaching.
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Phase 1:
Overview
Dec 2007 - June 2009
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Phase 2:
Exploring approaches
to quality teaching
July 2009 - Dec 2010
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Outcomes
The overview of institutional policies and initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of teaching (phase 1) has been completed. A full report will be published on the occasion of the “What Works” Conference on Quality Teaching to be held on 12-13 October 2009 at the Istanbul Technical University.
Meantime, you can access the digest of the report by clicking here.
Upcoming meetings
What Works conference on quality teaching - Istanbul Technical University. Istanbul, Turkey, 12-13 October 2009
For more information:
See the draft conference programme
Visit the Istanbul Technical University website: http://www.itu.edu.tr/en/
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If you would like to actively participate to the conference presenting a paper reflecting on experiences or researches on the quality of teaching, please download and complete the
"Call for contributions" (EN) or the
"Appel à contribution" (FR)
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Contact: Fabrice Henard
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