Overview
- Presents an empirical focus on quality work at multiple levels
- Gives a voice to those with hands-on experience and engagement in teaching and learning practices
- Contributes to a better understanding of the combined efforts of various actors in quality work
- Uses rich empirical data, including observation data from educational settings
- Takes stock of the ongoing activities regarding quality work in higher education institutions
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 54)
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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 athow study programmes and courses are designed, governed, and operated.
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Keywords
- quality systems in higher education institutions
- quality work at study programme level
- digital technology in quality work
- learning through inquiry
- student-centered learning environments
- study programme planning
- study programme planning
- assessment in higher education
- curriculum analysis
- analysis of program planning and realization
- student participation in student-centered learning
- teaching and learning in higher education
- organization of higher education
- ict in higher education
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quality Work in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Organisational and Pedagogical Dimensions
Editors: Mari Elken, Peter Maassen, Monika Nerland, Tine S. Prøitz, Bjørn Stensaker, Agnete Vabø
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41757-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41756-7Published: 02 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41759-8Published: 02 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41757-4Published: 01 July 2020
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 186
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Learning & Instruction, Curriculum Studies, Educational Policy and Politics