Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Institutions

This course book introduces the role of quality managers in communication and information processes of teaching and learning. Readers learn how to support teaching staff with defining objectives, expected learning outcomes and competences of a study programme. Furthermore, the course book deals with the continuous revision of study programmes and how to write a self-evaluation report at programme level. Finally, it examines the linkage between external and internal quality assurance approaches and how to make best use of both.

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Frank Niedermeier studied Sociology, Political Science and History at the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam. Since 2010, he has been working as a research associate at the Centre for Quality Development (ZfQ) of the University of Potsdam, where he heads and coordinates the ASEAN-QA project and is part of the evaluation division. His main areas of work and research are higher education and student research, evaluation of teaching and learning, methods of empirical social research and quality assurance and enhancement in higher education.