Assuring the quality of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment across satellite campuses

Peter R Grainger; Gail Crimmins; Kelley Burton

doi:10.1080/0309877X.2017.1386286

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Assuring the quality of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment across satellite campuses

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Assuring the quality of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment across satellite campuses

Peter R Grainger, Gail Crimmins and Kelley Burton

Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol.43(5), pp.589-600

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2017.1386286

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consensus planning

quality assurance

satellite campuses

compliance

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.

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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 Engineering
Gail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Kelley 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
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2017.1386286
ISSN: 0309-877X
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450548102621
Output Type: Journal article

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