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Activities
SEDA's activities focus on five main areas:
Professional Development
SEDA offers a range of professional development opportunities to individuals and institutions; including the Fellowship and Associate Fellowship schemes, courses in supporting and leading educational change and the Professional Development Framework (PDF).
Conferences and Events
SEDA organises and runs two residential conferences each year, an annual summer school for staff & educational developers, and occasional one-day events.
Publications
SEDA publishes SEDA Papers and SEDA Specials on topical issues, Educational Developments magazine, the journal IETI (Innovations in Education and Teaching International), and the SEDA series of books in collaboration with Routledge.
Research
SEDA’s Scholarship, Research and Evaluation Committee promotes research, scholarship and evaluation in staff and educational development as a means of bringing about understanding of, and further improvements in, our practices.
Membership Services
SEDA members benefit from a range of services, including regular mailings, copies of SEDA publications, eligibility to apply for the SEDA Research and Development Grants as well as discounts on publications.
Special Interest Group
SEDA has a new Special Interest Group on technology-enhanced practice: http://sedasig.wordpress.com/
Projects
Measuring the Impact of the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning
In July 2012, the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) to conduct an evaluation of the impact of the UK Professional Standard Framework (UKPSF), reporting in March 2013. The project will evaluate awareness, understanding and use of the UKPSF at the institutional and individual level and will provide recommendations to the HEA on fostering the use of the UKPSF and future research in this area. Further information.
JISC Digital Literacies Programme
SEDA was successful in its bid to JISC to support the Digital Literacies Programme with 11 other sector bodies and professional associations.
Embed-IT Project
From
January to November 2010 SEDA worked with JISC
and University of Strathclyde Glasgow on a project to embed across a number of
professional associations and institutions, the outcomes of a previous JISC
project called WORK-WITH-IT.
The WORK-WITH-IT framework and toolkit were designed to aid HEI change managers
in ensuring readiness for working effectively with information technology. We worked with professional bodies such as SCONUL, AMOSSHE, HEA and LFHE to develop and test these
support mechanisms and embed these in the professional practice of members.
This was achieved by leveraging SEDA’s professional and sector knowledge
and contacts to act as a broker and conduit to ensure that the support
mechanisms identified by Work-with-IT were adopted and embedded by relevant
sector organisations and professional bodies.
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Officer Lesley Gourlay
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Director (SEDA) Julie Hall
SFSEDA
Co-operation with the Higher Education Academy
SEDA ran from July 2008 to July 2010, under contract to the Higher Education Academy, the Supporting
Academic Staff Reference Group on Academic Development. The Reference Group,
chaired by Dame Janet Ritterman, was intended to enhance communications,
relationships and collaborative working between the Higher Education Academy
Subject Centres, Academy York, and other organisations active in academic
development in higher education. The Group was supported by, but functioned
independent of, the Academy. The Group linked with the Academy primarily through
the Academy’s Supporting Academic Staff Facilitation Group. Membership of the
group is described in the
attached account of the Principles and Purposes for the Group.
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