ICED Award 2017

The Spirit of ICED Award. Nominations are invited for the award of The Spirit of ICED.

Please write to ariane.dumont@heig-vd.ch before June 26th 2017

• The purpose of the award is to recognise and celebrate individuals or groups who have made an outstanding contribution to advancing the aims of ICED, which are:
• To help member associations to develop their capacity for educational development in higher education through the sharing of good practice, problems and solutions.
• To increase the number of partner organisations of ICED.
• To help educational developers in countries where no national network exists to form such a network.
• To support educational development in higher education in developing countries.
• To link with other national and international organisations

2          In 2004, an ICED working group outlined the criteria for nominees as individuals or groups who, over a period of time, have demonstrated outstanding leadership in educational development.

They will have:

• Perceived opportunities for expanding the boundaries of educational development and acted to bring visions to reality.
• Used evidence to bravely challenge and improve existing educational development practice.
• Actively disseminated educational development practice and/or theory across boundaries.
• Provided a role model to educational developers.

3          Nominees should normally be or have been actively engaged with their national network.

4          Proposals (in no more than 500 words) should give evidence of how the nominee has excelled in meeting the aims of ICED.

5          The proposals will be considered at the ICED Council Meeting in Shanghai, 6^th – 7^th July 2017.