The document discusses different models for campus-based educational development, including volunteer faculty committees, part-time or full-time coordinators, integrated educational development centers, and decentralized disciplinary or decanal units. It provides examples of each model and shares data from 2011 on the distribution of educational development models used at 21 institutions, with the most common being full-time directors, educational development teams, and amalgamated educational development units.
1. Campus-Based Educational Development
Nancy Randall
Honorary Research Associate
Vancouver Island University
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7. DIMENSIONSStructures: Models
1. Volunteer Faculty 2. Off the side of the
Committee with desk” Administrator
advisory, ~5%
decision-making May work with ED
Advisory Committee.
and/or working
roles.
8. DIMENSIONS Structures: Models
3. Part-time +++ 4. Full-time +++
V
FT
PT + V
Consultant and/or
FT Admin. Assist
PT Admin. Faculty Associate
V
Assistant
9. DIMENSIONS Structures: Models
3. Part-time Coordinator 4. Full-time Coordinator/
with PT Support Staff. Director with full-time
May work with Administrative
volunteer ED Assistant; 1 to 3 FTE
Committee. TLC consultants or
seconded Faculty
Associates.
11. DIMENSIONS Structures: Models
5. Team in the 4 to 8 FTE 6. Integrated ED units
range with with one or two
Coordinator/Director Directors/Deans, one
and Administrative or two Managers. Units
Assistant with TLC have specific focus on
Consultants and/or areas such as Writing
Faculty Associates. Centre, Technology,
Institutional focus: Curriculum Design,
curriculum design, Internationalizing the
technology, program Curriculum, and many
review and more. more options.
13. DIMENSIONS Structures: Models
7. Decentralized Disciplinary decanal units (e.g.,
Science, Medicine, Health). Usually one centralized
office with meeting spaces and/or teaching spaces.
14. Distribution of ED Models
2011 Educational Development Models
N=21 institutions
(multiple responses from several institutions)
Volunteer Advisory Committee/Peer Led 4
"Off the Side of the Desk" 1
Part-time Coordinator 2
Full-time Director 5
Educational Development Team 5
Amalgamated Educational Development Units 5
Decentralized Disciplinary Decanal Units 1