USEFUL WEBSITES
A range of high-quality resources for Educational and Professional Development are available on the web. Start exploring them here:
- Advance HE Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy) is a charity of/for the education sector that works to improve higher education. They support professional recognition for teaching excellence in higher education by awarding fellowships to the Higher Education Academy underpinned by the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in higher education.
- Advance HE Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education This page provides useful resources, publications, professional development. opportunities and other ways to engage with assessment and feedback.
- Advance HE Internationalising Higher Education This page provides useful resources and publications, professional development opportunities and other ways to engage with internationalising higher education.
- Advance HE Equality, Diversity + Inclusion A range of resources to help academic and other organisations support equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Advance HE Student Needs Framework This framework offers a foundation from which to consider the re-design of student support across higher education.
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Website resources include the free journal, Research Points, covering education research issues and intended for policymakers. - BBC Education
News, comment and debate on topical education issues across the UK. - British Educational Research Association (BERA)
A membership organisation that promotes research in education through Special Interest Groups and publications such as Research Intelligence, issues of which can be viewed for free. - Center For Curriculum Redesign (CCR)
The CCR focuses on both designing and propagating new curricula. - Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
UCL - Institute of Education's digital archive of education-related documents by government and related bodies. - Griffith University Best Practice Guide
This is a detailed guide for internationalisation of the curriculum which takes a broad view and considers different disciplinary perspectives. Useful descriptions of the forms that internationalisation can take at institutional, programme, module and classroom levels. Clear and concise appendix detailing many different strategies that can be put into practice, and a useful bibliography. - JISC - The Future of Assessment: Five Principles, Five Targets for 2025
This report is the result of an experts meeting exploring assessment in universities and colleges and how technology could be used to help address some of the problems and opportunities. - QAA (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) The UK's expert quality body for tertiary education, with a remit to maintain and enhance the quality of teaching and learning in higher education in the UK and internationally.
- QAA - Taxonomy of Digital Learning
Aims to help build a common language to describe digital approaches to programme delivery. To help education providers explain what students can expect from their programmes and allow them to better understand the differences between the learning experiences on offer. - Queen Mary Academy
Delivers university-wide support and development of education and research, working with staff and students to develop and enhance their practice in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and academic leadership. - Queen Mary Academy Resources Tools for Assessment & Feedback, Inclusive Curriculum and Curriculum Design, Co-Creation, Learner Engagement Analytics and more.