Education Development and Quality Assurance (EDQA)
Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) Educational Design services delivers a comprehensive, coordinated and integrated academic development service to FPD. The vision of this area is to create innovative, evidence based high quality educational programmes in order to position FPD as a leading provider of Higher Education and Training.
Educational Design manages the curriculum and course design of qualifications as well as short learning programmes, as follows:
- Curriculum development of formal qualifications and short learning programmes
- Submission of short learning programmes to professional bodies for accreditation with regard to CPD points.
- Project manage the development of teaching and learning material
- Quality assurance of teaching and learning material
The instructional design services that offered include:
- design of teaching and learning material to support interactive teaching and learning by means of Educational Technology (EdTech) and Learning Experience Design (LXD) both for internal and external clients
- creation of technology-enhanced teaching and learning materials of exceptional standards through the use computer technology such as authoring software, HTML editors, graphic packages, and other standard multimedia and web development tools
- design and structure the participants learning experience by means of learning theories, concepts and strategies to improve quality of learning
- work collaboratively with academic staff in designing e-assessment and advising on teaching and learning strategies from an educational point of view
Contributions to the professional development of academic staff by facilitating programmes aimed at improving:
- curriculum development
- teaching practices
- assessment practices
- the use of technology in education
- accreditation