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Home > Professional Development > Courses in Supporting and Leading Educational Change > Leading Educational Change Professional Qualification
Leading Educational
Change (Professional Qualification Course)
Introduction
SEDA is offering a three-month course that involves
substantive independent learning. Successful completion qualifies participants
for Associate Fellowship of SEDA (AFSEDA).
The course is recognised within
SEDA’s Professional Development Framework (PDF) as part of the Leading Staff
and Educational Development named award.
Who can take the course?
Many more people are leading staff and educational
development work, both full-time and part-time. Leadership of staff and
educational development includes:
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Contributing
to institutional strategy and policy on learning and teaching
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Leading
a range of developmental projects and initiatives of various scales, both
internally and externally funded. Such projects and initiatives include
HEFCE-funded initiatives including CETLs, Higher Education Academy Subject
Centres and projects, learning and teaching strategies and widening
participation and curriculum development initiatives
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Leading
peer review, mentoring, provision of learning resources and support, including
e-learning; programme and curriculum leadership and development
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Leading
quality enhancement
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Leading
postgraduate certificates in learning and teaching in higher education
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Playing
a leading role in educational development units
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Management
associated with enhancing academic practice
If you are in a role that requires you to lead
educational or organisational change then this award is for you.
Whether you operate within an institution, a faculty, a unit, a
CETL, a subject centre, or any such body - this award will:
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help
you to develop personal strategies for being organisationally strategic
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involve
you in a network of like-minded people
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offer one-to-one support systems
The award
is particularly appropriate for participants who have taken LECol: Leading
Educational Change (Introductory Online Course). It is also suitable for
colleagues who have been leading others in implementing staff and educational
development, facilitating or directing organisational change from a quality, HR
or educational perspective, or for those leading projects and CETLs and who may
have built up experience which can be accepted as equivalent to either of these
courses.
The Course
This course provides an opportunity for candidates to develop a portfolio
which they will present for assessment. Participants work through a virtual
learning environment in small groups under the guidance of an established team
of staff and educational developers acting as facilitators. Team members occupy leadership roles across
the sector. They will mentor
participants and facilitate networking with peers.
As the course
has been designed around the concept of a work based portfolio, it will be
taken over a fixed three-month period. In 2010 the course will start on 19th April 2010.
This course is particularly appropriate for
participants who have taken Leading Educational Change (Introductory Online
Course). It is also suitable for colleagues who have been working in staff and
educational development and who may have built up experience which can be
accepted as equivalent to either of these courses.
The
SEDA-PDF approach is supportive, enabling participants to define and meet their own
development needs within the framework of SEDA’s Values and the named award’s
outcomes.
The Portfolio
This focuses
upon a case study of your day to day work in staff and educational development.
In the portfolio submission you will demonstrate how, in your work, you satisfy
the specialist outcomes for the PDF award, Leading Staff and Educational
Development:
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Contribute
to the development and delivery of institutional strategy for educational
change
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Identify
the overall goals for the development activities and processes, and make
associated plans
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Help
development colleagues to identify local goals and to plan appropriate methods
within broad organisational and strategic contexts
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Ensure that colleagues carry out, monitor and evaluate the agreed
development process and provide appropriate support
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Support
colleagues in identifying with the client appropriate follow-up development
activity
For the
portfolio submission, you will also consider how your work is informed by the
SEDA Values:
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An
understanding of how people learn
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Scholarship,
professionalism and ethical practice
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Working
in and developing learning communities
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Working
effectively with diversity and promoting inclusivity
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Continuing
reflection on professional practice
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Developing
people and processes
Registration and
fees
The fee
for the award is: £795
The award
course will run from 19th April - 12th July 2010
To
register, please return the
registration form
to the SEDA Office by Monday 22nd March 2010. You
are advised to register early as places are limited. |
