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