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The State of Program Design and Development

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Why take on a whole-of-university approach to the improvement of learning and teaching? This chapter answers this question by describing the state of current practice followed by a rationale for the self-organizing university model including the need for theory, collaboration, and new institutional practice for governing the learning and teaching process.

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Bain, A., Zundans-Fraser, L. (2016). The State of Program Design and Development. In: Rising to the Challenge of Transforming Higher Education. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0261-8_2

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