Staff and Educational Development Association

Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) is the professional association for staff and educational developers in the United Kingdom, promoting innovation and good practice in higher education.^[1] SEDA was created in 1993.^[2]

SEDA's activities are clustered into five main areas:

• Professional development
• Conferences and events
• Publications
• Research
• Services to members

Professional recognition

• Fellow of the Staff and Educational Association (FSEDA)^[3]
• Associate Fellow of the Staff and Educational Association (AFSEDA)

SEDA accredits (recognises) professional development programs for all types of faculty and staff working in higher education institutions in the UK, and a few outside the UK.^[4] It does this through its Professional Development Framework which includes 16 "named awards" aimed at different roles or activities, which have different "specialist outcomes" but share common professional values and developmental outcomes.^[5][6]

See also

• List of post-nominal letters

References

1. Jeanette McDonald; Denise Stockley (13 July 2010). Pathways to the Profession of Educational Development: New Directions for Teaching and Learning. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 95–. ISBN 978-0-470-88010-4.
2. Malcolm Tight; Ka Ho Mok; Jeroen Huisman; Christopher Morphew (3 June 2009). The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education. Routledge. pp. 430–. ISBN 978-1-134-08201-8. ... the move to professionalise and accredit teaching in higher education, with the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) at the forefront of these developments (Beaty, 2006). SEDA was formed in the UK in 1993 by the merger ...
3. Society for Research into Higher Education (1 July 2003). Towards Strategic Staff Development in Higher Education. McGraw-Hill Education (UK). pp. 11–. ISBN 978-0-335-22431-9. The creation of a fellowship scheme by the British Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) in May 1994 is clearly significant ...
4. Carole Baume; Paul Martin; Mantz Yorke (2002). Managing Educational Development Projects: Effective Management for Maximum Impact. Psychology Press. pp. 180–. ISBN 978-0-7494-3904-0. This is very similar to the approach implemented in 1992 by the UK Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) to the accreditation of programmes for the accreditation of teachers in higher education (see Baume and Baume, ...
5. Fran Beaton (5 October 2012). Developing Effective Part-time Teachers in Higher Education: New Approaches to Professional Development. Routledge. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-0-415-51708-9. By 2003 the OU's Associate Lecturer Development and Accreditation Pathway (ALDAP) was established and recognised through the Staff and Educational Development Association's (SEDA) Professional Development Framework (PDF).
6. Stacey, Elizabeth (30 April 2009). Effective Blended Learning Practices: Evidence-Based Perspectives in ICT-Facilitated Education: Evidence-Based Perspectives in ICT-Facilitated Education. IGI Global. pp. 287–. ISBN 978-1-60566-297-8. The UK Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) professional development framework reflects theoretical concepts and a summary of the findings from various research studies such as those that underpin the work outlined ...

External links

• Official website