Campus-Based Educational Development
Nancy Randall
Honorary Research Associate
Vancouver Island University
We’ll start at 10am PST. Meanwhile, here’s a question to ponder:
What does educational development mean to you?

What does educational development mean to you?

DIMENSIONSStructures: Models
1. Volunteer 2. 5% Model
V
V+ V
V V

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.

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

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.

DIMENSIONS Structures: Models
Writing
Centre
5. Team
E-Learning
6.
Integrated
ED Centre

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.

DIMENSIONS Structures: Models
7. Disciplinary/ decanal/ decentralized
• Medicine
• Medicine
• Health/
Nursing

DIMENSIONS Structures: Models
7. Decentralized Disciplinary decanal units (e.g.,
Science, Medicine, Health). Usually one centralized
office with meeting spaces and/or teaching spaces.

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

The conversation continues…
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