HEA UK provides a standards framework for academics teaching in the Higher Education sector and facilitates the accreditation process for different fellowship levels.
The four fellowship levels align with different levels of expertise, with Associate Fellows typically being early career teachers or teaching support staff for example, and Principle Fellow of relevance to those in strategic leadership positions.
The framework itself is organised into three dimensions covering teaching activities, core subject knowledge and teaching methods associated with it and professional values. The HEA facilitates a process through which evidence to demonstrate achievement of these framework standards at the different Fellowship levels can be captured and accredited.
The HEA website also provides a host of teaching resources (articles) through their Knowledge Hub which can be searched through a range of thematic and discipline specific filters.
Other services the HEA provides are facilitated Communities of Practice through face to face and virtual spaces; with current clusters around flexible learning, employability, assessment and feedback for example.
A special focus area of support is Enhancing Student Success in HE and HEA offers a consultative process to guide institutions through a collaborative focus on this again around key topics; some as mentioned in the Communities of Practice. Within this area key reports and frameworks are provided for some of these topics for instance; Technology enhanced learning, internationalization of HE and student engagement.
They also publish an open access journal Higher Education Pedagogies which is free for Fellows to publish to with a APC charge for other contributors.
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