| EDPR 6011: The academic profession: Challenges & changes in higher education | ||||
| Learning outcomes | ||||
| Learning outcomes are negotiated with each participant. However, at the completion of this unit of study course members will have achieved a substantial number of the following outcomes. They will: | ||||
| 1. | Have developed their awareness of the higher education context in which they are working | |||
| 2. | Have critically evaluated issues which have an influence on higher education practice | |||
| 3. | Made decisions concerning teaching and research directions on the basis of an informed knowledge of the literature on these issues | |||
| 4. | Participated in debates which surround and suffuse higher education | |||
| 5. | Know how to advance international perspectives in higher education practice | |||
| 6. | Have planned teaching and research activities on the basis of coherent epistemological positions | |||
| 7. | Be capable of applying findings from research literature on teaching and research in curriculum planning | |||
| 8. | Have critically evaluated the relationship between teaching and research | |||
| 9. | Be able to enumerate different conceptions of research | |||
| 10. | Have traced the development of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and applied that to the analysis of issues of power and influence in research funding | |||
| 11. | Have an appreciation of the future role of research and scholarship in the university of the future | |||
| 12. | Have evaluated higher education practice in their department and faculty in relation to changes and trends in higher education and its relationship to society | |||
| 13. | Have an appreciation of what universities are for and the issues which are likely to affect their future development | |||
| 14. | Understand the implications of changing conceptions of scholarship for the ways in which academic work is rewarded | |||
| 15. | Know how to practice scholarship in teaching | |||
| 16. | Be capable of enumerating issues affecting postgraduate pedagogy | |||
| 17. | Have illustrated the ways in which the academic profession is changing in the light of their own experience and the literature | |||