What is SEDA ?

SEDA is the professional association for staff and educational developers in the UK, promoting innovation and good practice in higher education.  It provides support and recognition for professional development activity in higher education.

What are the SEDA Professional Development Framework and named Awards? 

SEDA's Professional Development Framework provides recognition for higher education institutions, their professional development programmes and the individuals who complete those programmes.

It uses a range of named awards to recognise different types of professional development.

All named awards share a common set of values and core development outcomes and each named award has its own set of specialist outcomes.

Lancaster and SEDA

Lancaster achieved SEDA recognition as an awarding institution in October 2007.  Since then CELT has been working to develop several of the named awards for staff at Lancaster, forming a key part of the University's implementation strategy for the institutional Professional Development Framework.

These are:

• Learning, teaching and assessing
• Supporting learning
• Supervising postgraduate research
• Embedding learning technologies
• Supporting learning with technologies
• Student Support and Guidance

Several of these awards have been used as a basis for developing M Level 30 credit modules which are linked with the Certificate and Diploma in Academic Practice .

Why are these awards useful?

These awards a useful in a number of ways. 

• They are intended to recognise your current practice and teaching concerns and activities, rather than be an additional burden.
• They provide evidence and sources of information to talk about your work e.g. when making a case for probation or promotion.
• It is of benefit to the development of your teaching and therefore to the benefit of your student
• These awards are portable nationally (and internationally) as recognised awards

For more information about any of these awards please contact a member of the teaching development team .