Journal article
Assuring the quality of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment across satellite campuses
Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol.43(5), pp.589-600
2019
Abstract
Assuring the quality of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment is an increasingly significant issue in higher education. This article explores the potential benefit of 'consensus planning', an ongoing curriculum development, maintenance and monitoring strategy, to achieve consistency of academic standards for student learning and assessment across multiple campuses. This article specifically reports on a 'consensus planning' audit undertaken within the School of Education at a regional university in Queensland that engaged full-time academic staff across two campuses. Results suggest that the success of consensus planning is contingent on the personalities of academics; attitudes towards reaching consensus and top-down policy measures; and geographical proximity of the campuses. To ameliorate some of the barriers to consensus planning it is recommended that higher education institutions build the capacity of academics, supporting them to create curriculum where 'equivalence' is as accepted as 'sameness', and where debate and bottom-up practice and policy recommendation is valued.
Details
- Title
- Assuring the quality of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment across satellite campuses
- Authors
- Peter R Grainger (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringGail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawKelley Burton (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol.43(5), pp.589-600
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/0309877X.2017.1386286
- ISSN
- 0309-877X
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit; School of Law and Society; School of Education and Tertiary Access; School of Education - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Creative Industries - Legacy; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450548102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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