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Hvaða eiginleika og færni þurfa góðir háskólakennarar að hafa?
proving their overall learning outcomes.
If quality in higher education is to be
enhanced, professors need to develop
an awareness of how to support student
learning effectively and efficiently. Such
awareness can be developed by educative
programs, by rewarding teaching com-
petencies and enhancing dialogue about
teaching and learning. The theory pre-
sented here can be used as a basis for such
dialogue. The mere discourse on quality
has the potential to broaden the quality
agenda and make it more critically self-
reflective. The theory presented here can
be seen as a platform for further research
and theory development as well as an aid
in the improvement of HE institutions'
teaching and learning with a clear focus
on good professors as an essential factor in
quality as transformation.
Keywords: Quality as transformation; Higher
education (HE); Professors; Teaching; Learning.
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