Academic development as a collective effort
The central theme of this year's conference is “Diverse facets of higher education pedagogy: disciplinary, curricular and organizational aspects of research and development”. Through a plenary lecture, structured discussions and professional workshops, we will explore this diversity to understand individual and collective processes, while considering disciplinary differences, the dynamics of program and course development, as well as organizational specificities.
Prof. Dr. Franziska Zellweger Moser, researcher at the Centre for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Zurich will deliver the keynote speech of the conference titled "Academic development as a collective effort: interdisciplinarity, coherence and organizational learning".
In her contribution, Professor Zellweger will share insights on the collective efforts as well as on the changing role of faculty and academic development in the context of Swiss higher education. In so doing, Professor Zellweger presents research results from a joint project of three universities of applied science to foster team learning with the dual perspective on research and practice, shares ideas on a whole-institution approach to establishing sustainability culture, and briefly introduces the notion of need-based interdisciplinary learning formats of universities of applied sciences in collaboration with companies from the infrastructure sector.
The abstract and the narrative bio of Professor Zellweger can be found here.
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