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Review of Quality Teaching in Higher Education

Based on an OECD review of 46 quality teaching initiatives in 20 countries, the report highlights the significant impact of the institutions’ environment, trends in the quality of academia, teaching methods and learning conditions. The sample represents 29 higher education institutions, from technological and vocational institutions to business and economic schools, from small undergraduate institutions to multidisciplinary postgraduate universities.
The book illustrates the following factors with examples from around the world:
- the aims of institutions when fostering quality teaching, their options and the guiding philosophy behind a quality approach;
- concrete ways to apply quality teaching initiatives, challenges to implementing them, and key actors in their dissemination;
- evaluation systems and the impacts of institutional support on teaching, research and quality culture;
- how institution-wide approaches can be combined to enhance quality teaching in a sustainable way.
The book also analyses the effects of quality teaching on institutional leaders, faculty members, quality units and students.
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The Origins of Engagement in Quality Teaching
Institutional Management in Higher Education
This chapter discusses the engagement of national authorities, and state regulations or incentives in quality teaching. It also outlines the impact of quality assurance systems on quality teaching. In the context of increasing awareness of quality teaching, it draws on how external factors at the national and international levels foster a climate that recognises teaching quality as a priority. Finally, it reveals the inherent role of institutions in ensuring quality teaching through explaining the different objectives that institutions are pursuing when supporting individual or institutional quality teaching initiatives.
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