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What do you really need to know?

What do you really need to know?. T he importance of the third space in developing institutional CPD frameworks. Liz Marr and Rachel Forsyth. What does it mean to be an academic in today’s universities?.

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What do you really need to know?

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  1. What do you really need to know? The importance of the third space in developing institutional CPD frameworks. Liz Marr and Rachel Forsyth HEA Conference 2011

  2. HEA Conference 2011

  3. What does it mean to be an academic in today’s universities? “ …how to be a proper academic is a moving goal; moreover one that is fraught with ambiguity.” (Clegg,2008) “what it is to be an academic is by no means given but is a matter of dynamic relationships between social and epistemological interests and structures” (Barnett, 2000) HEA Conference 2011

  4. How does one become an academic? • As an apprentice? • ‘Refugee’ from practice? • Other? HEA Conference 2011

  5. What are the tensions in the academic role? • Institutional role and disciplinary identity • Internal and external activity • Administration and academic work • Research and enterprise • Teaching and scholarship • Quality assurance/quality enhancement • Autonomy/accountability HEA Conference 2011

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  7. What is CPD for ? • Personal development? • Career enhancement? • Institutional enhancement? • External validation? • Skills and competencies? • Knowledge – subject/teaching practice? HEA Conference 2011

  8. What risks do we face? • De-professionalising • Fragmentation • Reduced quality and standards HEA Conference 2011

  9. Activity 2 • What are the essential functional elements of a successful university? HEA Conference 2011

  10. How should CPD respond HEA Conference 2011

  11. Will UKPSF do the job? • Multiple pathways • Multiple opportunities to gain credit • Focus on context as well as content • Cross disciplinary approach • APEL/APL HEA Conference 2011

  12. A CPD framework for blended professionals- the context • The Higher education context: • History and philosophy • Funding and governance • The university context • Cross institutional functions (finance, estates, HR etc) • The management of teaching • The management of research • The student experience • External relations HEA Conference 2011

  13. A CPD framework for blended professionals-teaching • Teaching: • Designing and quality assuring courses • Delivering courses (lectures, seminars, labwork, tutorials) • Assessing students (design, administration, marking) • Working with diversity (disability, internationalisation) • Supervision (ug, pg, placements) HEA Conference 2011

  14. A CPD framework for blended professionals-research and scholarship • Bidding for funding • Managing research projects • Writing for publication • Enterprise and community engagement HEA Conference 2011

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