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Head of Unit’s
Foreword

www.imperial.ac.uk/edudev

The Educational Development Unit’s role is to collaboratively
encourage and support all those around College who work so hard
to provide excellent educational opportunities for our students.
Much of this is done through running stand-alone workshops
tailored to need and demand and more academic programmes of
study in education.

Over 2013-14 the EDU devised and delivered increased numbers on, and interest in, every stage
an increased range and number of stand-alone of our three-stage part-time MEd University Learning
workshops and bespoke ‘on-demand’ provision and Teaching programme. The EDU also participates
to meet specific need. This support has reached in the MEd Surgical Education. For those with less
more people than ever before with increased (40%) formal teaching roles and responsibilities there is the
numbers of staff from all faculties and across Supporting Learning and Teaching Pathway (SLTP)
all Imperial sites involved. Our workshops are and this continues to be popular with staff such
categorised into: ‘Introduction to…’, ‘Practical Guide as librarians and technicians who support student
to…’, ‘Focus on…’ and workshops specific for the learning but perhaps do not have a formal academic
Faculty of Medicine to better guide participants as teaching role. This programme has been reviewed and
to what may be useful for them. Plans for the coming updated following the retirement of Peter Wren who
year include developing more online material and led it so effectively for the last eight years and is now
guides to support this provision and provide a more closely aligned with Associate Fellowship of the
resource for those that do not have time to attend our HEA and directed by Dr John Davies.
workshops.
Last year we recognised that with increasing numbers
Our structured programmes of study are suitable for of students undertaking Master’s in education
staff who want to build on a practical approach to programmes a light-touch but robust ethical review
improving their teaching and take the PG Certificate, process for ‘low-risk’ educational research was
PG Diploma or MEd University Learning and Teaching. needed. Over this last year we have developed the
We maintained this academic provision with online Education Ethics Review Process (EERP) and

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