20th Annual SEDA Conference Keynote Address Risk and Agency: Nurturing and valuing scholarship and research in learning, teaching and educational development Gina Wisker Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, University of Brighton

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Gina talked about the forthcoming Teaching Excellence Framework and the promise to place teaching excellence into a comparable place with that of research excellence. There was a discussion of the structures that might be used, strategies and infrastructure. SOTL should provide an evidence base for the teaching excellence and so we need to be clear about this is. As educational developers we should provide our institutions with a definition that should then be used as a basis across the institution. There needs to be development around SOTL outputs to also have SOTL impacts. Teaching excellence has no agreed definition and so we need to work towards what would be an agreed view. The TEF needs to include qualitative measures as well as metrics and peer review and CPD activity are important elements of this. We need to support our colleagues in sharing their good practice from awards and projects and promote dissemination of this through high quality SOTL.

 

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