Long-Term Effects of Educational Development Programmes

Gabriela Pleschová is Associate Professor in Education and Head of the Centre for Scholarship and Teaching at Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia.

• Section I. Educational development programmes and the change they are hoped to foster.- Chapter 1. Student-centred learning and reflective teaching.- Chapter 2. Design of research on the long-term impact of four educational development programmes.- Section II. Four case studies.- Chapter 3. A university committed to transforming how students learn in the region: Central European University.- Chapter 4. A fast-growing, ambitious university: Masaryk University.- Chapter 5. An institution that trains both scholars and teachers: The Slovak Academy of Sciences.- Chapter 6. A university that holds the Gold for teaching: Nottingham Trent University.- Section III. The long-term effects of ED programmes on programme graduates.- Chapter 7. Four paths of higher education teachers.- Chapter 8. Student-centred and reflective teaching of ED programme graduates five and more years on.- Section IV. Factors influencing programme effects.- Chapter 9. Teaching collaboration.- Chapter 10. Trusting relationships of ED programme graduates.- Chapter 11. ED programme graduates serving as educational leaders.- Section V. Conclusions.- Chapter 12.The implications of this study for educational development, institutional practice and research.