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> Development Association on behalf of seda
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> Subject:      SEDA Awards 2004
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> SEDA Awards 2004:
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> Questioning the Impact of Staff and Educational Development
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> Staff and educational development has a long tradition of using a
> particular range of approaches to meet institutional and individual needs,
> including workshops, consultancy, courses, meetings, conferences, networks
> and projects. However, there has been little consideration of the
> rationale of adopting one approach over another, of considering what might
> be the most appropriate way of measuring the impact of what we do, and
> then considering how to change our practice as a result of what we learn
> from evaluation.
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> What can you apply for?
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> SEDA invites proposals for SEDA Awards to support the costs of
> development-related activity which examines how we ensure that our
> practice as staff and educational developers is underpinned by good
> educational research and principles, that we appropriately evaluate and
> reflect on the impact of what we do, and that we review our practice in
> the light of the evidence we generate.
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> The theme this year reflects our wish to focus on questions such as:
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> *       What is the rationale for the staff and educational development
> approaches we use?
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> *       Where and what is the impact for our actions?
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> *       How do we contribute to cultural and organisational change?
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> *       Where do new ideas come from and how are these related to
> practice?
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> *       How do we build capacity for research, evaluation and practice in
> educational development?
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> *       What does a scholarly approach to educational development look
> like?
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> *       What is the relationship between educational research and
> educational development?
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> Work undertaken should reflect a degree of scholarly rigour. Where
> projects are more development-oriented such rigour will be expected in the
> processes of evaluation. 
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> Educational development is taken in a wide sense to mean the support for
> change in higher education, including e-learning, HE in FE, supporting
> diversity and developing and implementing learning and teaching
> strategies.
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> Who is eligible?
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> Applicants should be a SEDA member or associate member for 2004 or a
> member of staff in an institution which holds SEDA membership during 2004.
> Where joint bids are proposed, at least one applicant should have a SEDA
> membership
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> How much can I bid for?
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> Up to six awards will be offered, each award being normally a maximum of
> £500, though small additional amounts may be awarded to exceptional
> proposals. Half of this sum may be claimed on acknowledgement that a
> proposal has been successful. The remainder will be paid on receipt of a
> final report and statement of expenditure. 
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> The Award may be used to pay for time release, administrative support,
> travel or to attend a SEDA event to disseminate the outcomes.
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> Whilst the sum awarded may seem small, experience in the past has been
> that recipients have welcomed the recognition for the activity they want
> to carry out. They have also seen the money as being of a seed corn nature
> to allow them to engage in scholarly activities.
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> How do I apply?
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> There are no special application forms. Proposals should be sent to SEDA
> Awards at the SEDA office (address below) and should include an account in
> no more than 500 words of the following:
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> *       The project title, main activities and the literature on which it
> is based
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> *       What impact the project will have outside your immediate area
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> *       How it will be carried out and by whom
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> *       When the project will begin and by when it will be completed     
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> *       How much support is sought, an indication of how the money will be
> used and what other funds - either matched or in kind - will be available
> from your institution or other sources
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> *       How the project results will be evaluated, reported and
> disseminated 
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> Dissemination
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> Successful applicants will be expected to contribute a session at a SEDA
> Conference or other event during the 2005-06 academic year and submit a
> 200 word piece to Educational Developments.
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> What criteria will be used to agree awards?
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> SEDA Awards will be judged on a 4-point scale, from poor to excellent. It
> will not be possible to enter into any correspondence with applicants.
> Each proposal will be judged by a minimum of three assessors, two of whom
> will be drawn from SEDA Research Committee, with the remainder either from
> SEDA Executive Committee or other experts with SEDA membership. 
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> What is the timetable?
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>     *    Proposals must be received by the SEDA office by 18 October 2004
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>     *    All applicants will be notified of the results by 16 November
> 2004, which will be     announced at the SEDA Conference on that day.
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>     *    Successful applicants will be expected to present their findings
> at a SEDA event      during the 2005-6 academic year
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> Further information?
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> For further information concerning SEDA Awards, please contact Ranald
> Macdonald FSEDA ([log in to unmask]) or the SEDA office.
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