The Teaching and Learning Champions (TLC) project within the West/North West Higher Education Cluster in Ireland aims to enhance the capacity of manager/senior managers for leadership in digitally engaged teaching and learning. The project, funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, aims to encourage and facilitate an evidence based engagement with the learning and teaching issues and ideas articulated in the Professional Development Framework (Teaching & Learning Forum 2016) and the Roadmap for Enhancement in a Digital World (Teaching & Learning Forum 2015) with a focus on managers of higher education institutions.
Insights into the value of the enhancement of digital leadership from a teaching and learning perspective may address many of the competing priorities vying for management attention in an age of supercomplexity. Understanding how management perceive digital leadership as a strategic opportunity and challenge for their institution, offers an evidence base to inform the TLC project themes and resources.
In addition, the TLC Project interrogates the Professional Development Framework for those who teach in Irish higher education, as the project is based on the premise that leadership for teaching and learning is the business of all managers. Thus, the TLC Project explores the additional area of professional development leadership for those who support teaching and learning, with digital capacity and leadership woven through this initiative. Finally, the TLC Project aims to enhance mentorship in teaching and learning leadership, with professional development and digital leadership as two key themes to be explored during the project duration.
The Teaching and Learning Champions project, as a nationally funded initiative, offers an opportunity to create just that: teaching and learning champions among participating higher education managers/senior managers with an informed view of the potential for digital leadership to shape the institution’s core business.
Topics: Global challenges in Higher & Further Education , Topics: TEL Policy & Strategy
