TY - CONF
T1 - Quality of Higher Education
T2 - Conference on Higher Education Development
AU - Zou, Yihuan
AU - Zhao, Yingsheng
AU - Du, Xiangyun
AU - Du, Ping
N1 - Zou, Yihuan, Zhao, Yingsheng, Du, Xiangyun and Du, Ping. (2010). Quality of Higher Education: A Perspective of Faculty/Staff Development for University Teaching and Learning. Proceeding of 2010 Conference on Hihger Education Development, Beijing, 25-26 July, 2010, London: London Science Publishing Limited. pp. 13-17.
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - This paper starts with a critical approach to reflect on the current practice of quality assessment and assurance in higher education. This is followed by a proposal that in response to the global challenges for improving the quality of higher education, universities should take active actions of change by improving the quality of teaching and learning. From a constructivist perspective of understanding education and learning, this paper also discusses why and how universities should give more weight to learning and change the traditional role of teaching to an innovative approach of facilitation. This transformation involves a broad scale of change at individual level, organizational level, and societal level. In this change process in higher education, staff development remains one of the key elements for university innovation and at the same time demands a systematic and holistic approach.
AB - This paper starts with a critical approach to reflect on the current practice of quality assessment and assurance in higher education. This is followed by a proposal that in response to the global challenges for improving the quality of higher education, universities should take active actions of change by improving the quality of teaching and learning. From a constructivist perspective of understanding education and learning, this paper also discusses why and how universities should give more weight to learning and change the traditional role of teaching to an innovative approach of facilitation. This transformation involves a broad scale of change at individual level, organizational level, and societal level. In this change process in higher education, staff development remains one of the key elements for university innovation and at the same time demands a systematic and holistic approach.
KW - quality of higher education; university teaching and learning; educational change; staff/faculty development
M3 - Paper without publisher/journal
Y2 - 25 July 2010 through 26 July 2010
ER -