Designing holistic and sustainable educational development to improve student learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Designing holistic and sustainable educational development to improve student learning

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

This project addresses the need for academics to become qualified university teachers so that they can effectively facilitate student learning. The project aims to prepare, test and evaluate a plan for making development of university teachers holistic and sustainable. This includes first preparing curricula of new educational development courses/workshops for university teachers, undergoing an international accreditation of the courses and piloting them with at least 50 doctoral students and beginner teachers from two universities. Second, we will design a plan for making student feedback continuously enhance quality of teaching and learning and test the plan with 40 or more courses in two participating universities. Third, we will undertake two scholarly studies: a study into the impact of the newly introduced ED initiatives and a study evaluating the effectiveness of mechanisms that support pedagogical conversations and informal learning among university teachers. Finally, under this project, we will design a plan for identifying, selecting and rewarding excellence in teaching and start implementing the plan within at least two participating organisations.
Through providing a more integrated approach to staff development, we expect to prepare significantly more university teachers for new challenges of current times, including teaching large student groups, teaching online and helping students to become effective life-long learners. Teachers will be able to design courses so that they meet high-quality standards. They will also be able to use student-centred teaching methods and some of them will even be able to implement the “students as partners” approach. Teachers recognised for their excellence will lead and inspire further colleagues to come up with innovative classes. Most importantly, we assume to achieve a synergic effect when student feedback helps to enhance teaching, and good teaching feeds into enhanced motivation and increased student effort while learning. The project will thus create conditions for continuous enhancement of student learning experience and learning outcomes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 186718 Eur

Project Coordinator

EKONOMICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE & Country: SK

Project Partners

• TARTU ULIKOOL
• STAFF AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPPMENT ASSOCIATION
• LUNDS UNIVERSITET
• UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE