Full Description
Focusing on creating learning environments, this book explores what it means to be an innovative leader of learning and teaching in higher education.
Providing practical tips and guidance to support those designing or redesigning higher education curricula, this book highlights approaches and solutions to leading change in learning and teaching. Covering all areas from an overview of external pressures, through to developing a vision and strategy for a programme, to classroom practice and sustainability, leading thinkers in the field of university learning and teaching share their experiences of driving and sustaining change in departmental practice. It also introduces creative approaches into the role to support the innovation, enhancement, and development of agile programme teams.
With insights and case studies from international contributors, this book highlights key approaches and solutions to leading change in learning and teaching that are implementable. It will be key reading for all those teaching in higher education, but particularly for academics who are interested in programme leadership roles.
Contents
Part I - Introduction. 1.The Context and Challenge of Programme Leadership. 2.Educational Metrics and Leadership. Part II - Vision & Strategy. 3.Vision and Strategic Thinking - an Interrogative Primer for Teaching Leadership. 4.Addressing White Privilege as a Pedagogic Process of Decolonising. Part III - New Frontiers. 5.Exploring the Potential of Scholarship to Drive Teaching Innovation. 6.Creating a Naked University. 7.Creating Curricula Together. 8.Engaging Digital Teaching Practice. Part IV - Driving and Sustaining Change. 9.Leveraging Change in Higher Education. 10.Collaborative Leadership towards Innovation in Teaching and Learning. 11.Leading Learning and Teaching in a Crisis. Part V - Conclusion. 12.Agile Futures - Where Will You Go From Here?
